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interrupted medially) are white or yellowish-white; legs pale or yel- 

 lowish-white; the base of hind coxse behind, spot on their trochanters 

 above and the apices of hind femora and tibife, black. Wings hj^aline, 

 the stegma and veins reddish brown, the costal and poststig-mal veins 

 black, the venation as in figure. The thorax is closely punctate, 

 otherwise the insect, except some minute sparse punctures on the 

 face, is smooth and shining. 



I Ti/pe.—C&t No. Y233, U.S.N.M. 



■ LocaJUy. — Atami (A. Koebele). 



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Xrit)e \^I. CRA"F»T"IXI. 



Genus CRYPTUS Fabrieius. 

 CRYPTUS ALBERTI, new species. 



Female. — Length 10 mm.; ovipositor a little longer than half the 

 length of the abdomen. Black, finel}^ closel}^ punctate, subopaque 

 and pubescent, the metathorax rugulose, with two transverse carinas; 

 antenna? black, with joint 7 at apex heneath and joints 8 to 11 heneath, 

 white; legs black, with the apex of front femora and the front and 

 middle tibiie reddish, their tarsi subfuscous, the hind legs wholly 

 black, except tarsal joints 3 and 1, which are white; the abdomen, 

 except the petiole, is subopaque, the second and following segments 

 ver}^ delicately shagreened, a little shin}- at their apices, the sixth 

 dorsal segment narrowly white at apex, the petiole smooth and shining. 

 Wings subhyaline, the stigma and veins dark brown, the discoidal 

 nervure broken hy a stump of a vein, the areolet rather large, pentago- 

 nal, the sides almost parallel. 



Ti/pe.—Gat. No. 7232, U.S.N.M. 



Locality. — Japan (A. Koebele). 



Tribe VII. IVTESOSTENINI. 



Genus MESOSTENUS Gravenhorst. 

 MESOSTENUS OCTOCINCTUS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 8 mm. ; ovipositor half the length of the 

 iabdomen. Black and closely punctured; the mandibles, except teeth, 

 the clypeus, face and front orbits to the summit of the eyes, the 

 :cheeks and the hind orbits not quite to the summit of the eyes, the 

 palpi, the antennal joints he/ieat/t from the apex of the sixth to the 

 sixteenth joint, a band on the prothorax above, interrupted at the mid- 

 dle, a round spot on the disk of the mesonotum, the scutellum and its 

 lateral ridges anteriorly, a streak on the post-scutellum, the teguhe, a 

 line beneath, two spots on the mesopleura, a spot on the mesosternum, 

 I large spot on the metapleura, the margins of the metathoracic 

 :;runcature broadly, all coxa? and trf)chanters, except a black spot on 





