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Girault,' but Chalcis of authors (not Fabricius), as now recognized, is 
Brachymeria Westwood, and it is in that genus that the species 
belongs. 
Female.—Length 4.25 mm. Very similar to Brachymeria euploeae 
Westwood but differing by being somewhat smaller, by the lateral 
ocelli being approximately their own diameter from the eye margins, 
by the flagellar joints, except the first, all being slightly broader than 
long, by lacking entirely the tubercle on the inner ventral margin 
of the hind coxa, and by having the fore and middle tibiae immaculate 
yellow. Also very similar to albotibalis Ashmead from which it dif- 
fers by having the tooth nearest the base of posterior femur smaller 
or at least no larger than some of the other teeth, by having the punc- 
tures on mesoscutum and scutellum more narrowly separated, by hav- 
ing the pits on hypopygium somewhat smaller and more numerous, 
by having the flagellar joints very slightly shorter, and by having 
the blackish band at base of posterior tibia shorter, this band usually 
embracing only about one-sixth the length of tibia. 
Postorbital branch of the genal carina present and well developed; 
punctures of thoracic dorsum coarse and contiguous; apex of scutel- 
lum with the plate weakly emarginate medially; propodeum coarsely, 
irregularly rugose; abdomen subacute, ovate; first dorsal segment of 
gaster smooth and nearly bare dorsally but with the dorsolateral 
angles conspictiously hairy; following segments weakly shagreened 
with one or more conspicuous rows of hairs extending clear across 
the dorsum, the penultimate segment with moderately strong pits 
in addition to the shagreening; hind femur with rather weak, fine 
punctures, more or less shining, its ventral margin with 10 to 12 
blunt teeth, the 3 teeth nearest base usually shorter than the others; 
postmarginal vein fully twice as long as stigmal vein. 
Black; flagellum dark brown or black; palpi, tegulae, apical half 
of anterior femur, apical one-third of median femur, a large spot at 
apex of hind femur, anterior and median tibiae entirely, and all tarsi 
yellow; hind tibia yellow, with a narrow black or blackish band at 
extreme base and the carina along the margin black. Wings hyaline; 
marginal and stigmal veins dark. Hairs clothing the body grayish 
white and densest on front of head. 
Male—Unknown. 
Type locality —Coimbatore, India. 
Type.—U.S.N.M. No. 20898. 
Remarks—The type and two paratypes, according to the labeling, 
were reared at Coimbatore, India, June 1, 1916, from a moth infesting 
“Jambolana.” Since these specimens are the original Girault manu- 
script types, they are undoubtedly the specimens upon which Ayyar’s 
1Ins. Inscit. Menstr., vol. 14, p. 66, 1926. 
