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white, the rest of the leg-s, except the pulvilli and the hind tarsi, which 

 are fuscous, are testaceous; mandibles yellowish, tridentate at aY)ex; 

 wings h^^aline, the stigma yellowish, the veins fuscous. The head, 

 the thorax, except the metathorax, and the abdomen, except the petiole, 

 are smooth and shining; the metathorax is coarseh^ reticulated with 

 irregular elevated lines, while the petiole is longitudinally striated. 



7|/>..— Cat. No. 8963, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. One specmien. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Family BRACONID.Fl 



Genus HOMIOPTERUS Girard. 



25. HOMIOPTERUS PACIFICUS, new species. 



Male.—ljQngth. 1.6 mm. Head and thorax brownish yellow, the 

 eyes brown-black, the metanotum subfuscous, with elevated lines, the 

 abdomen pale brownish with the petiole rugulose and black; the palpi 

 and legs are yellowish white; the antenna are very long, the flagellum 

 subfuscous above, becoming- black toward apex; wings hyaline, the 

 stigma pale, the venation typical of the genus and fuscous. 



The whole insect, except the metathorax and the petiole of the 

 abdomen, is smooth and shining-, and quite different in this respect 

 from the delicately, longitudinally sculptured species known in the 

 North American fauna. 



Manila. One specimen. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Genus MICROBRACON Ashmead. 



26. MICROBRACON LUTEICEPS, new species. 



Female. — Length 1,3 mm.; ovipositor not quite half the length of 

 the abdomen. Head, except the eyes and a large spot inclosing the 

 ocelli, most of the thorax, except as hereafter noted, and the abdomen 

 beneath, luteous or pale yellowish; legs yellowish, the hind femora 

 and tarsi and the last joint of the front and middle tarsi, dark fuscous; 

 the antennae, the eyes, the spot on vertex inclosing- the ocelli; the 

 disks of the lateral and middle lobes of the mesonotum, the base of 

 the scutellnm, the metanotum, sutures beneath the tegulffi, a spot on 

 the mesosternum, the abdomen above, and the sheaths of the ovi- 

 positor, are black. Wings hyaline, wnth a grayish tinge; the stigma 

 and veins brownish, the stigma paler within. 



Type.— C^t. No. 9036, U.S.N.M. 



Manila. One specimen. (Father Robert Brown.) 



HEMIGLYPTUS, ne^jv genus. 



This new- genus falls in the tril)e Braconini and comes next to 

 Glyptoriiorpha Holmgren, to which it is closely related. 



