NO. 1448. NE]V JAPANESE IIYMEXOPTERA—ASHMEAD. 187 



pale yellowish, the flagellum brown, becoming blackish toward apex. 

 Wings hyaline, the stigma and basal nervuro brown, the other veins 

 pale. 



Type.— C?it. No. 7263, U.S.N.M. 



Localitii. — Formosa (A. Koebele). 



Genus KAHLIA Ashmead. 

 KAHLIA SECUNDA, new species. 



Female. — Length 4.5 nnn. Black and shining; mandibles red with 

 black teeth; palpi, teguhe, and more or less of the trochanters j^ellow- 

 ish-white; rest of legs mostl}' testaceous, the tips of hind femora, 

 apical third of hind tibite and basal two joints of hind tarsi except at 

 tips, dark brownish or fuscous; wings h3'aline, the veins blackish, the 

 lanceolate stigma, mostly rufous or testaceous witliin, the stigmal vein 

 originating near its apex and extending to the apical margin of the 

 wing, making the marginal cell very large. 



Tyjye.—Ciit. No. 7264, U.S.N.M.' 



Locality. — Sapporo (Doctor Matsumura). 



Family LXXVIII. BRACONID.^. 



Subtainily I. A.PHIDIIN".*::. 



Genus EPHEDRUS Haliday. 



EPHEDRUS JAPONICUS, new species. 



Fetnale. — Length 1.6 to 2 mm. Polished black; mandibles, palpi 

 and legs honey-yellow, the hind coxa? dusky basally; abdomen mostl}^ 

 black, but more or less brownish piceous toward base, the petiole 

 sometimes yellow and about three times as long as wide. Antennae 

 11-jointed, black, the first two joints more or less testaceous, the third 

 with a yellow annulus at base, about four times as long as thick. 

 Wings hyaline, the venation brownish, the recurrent uervure joining 

 the second cubital cell just behind the first transverse cubitus. 



Male. — Differs from the female in having the antenna longer, 

 16-jointed, the flagellar joints being not much more than twice as long- 

 as thick; the hind femora and tibijB, except at base, are rufo-piceous; 

 while the abdominal petiole is black. 



Type.— 0.^1. No. 7265, U.S.N.M. 



Locality. — Gifu (Y. Nawa). One male and 9 female specimens bred 

 from an Aphis. 



Genus ACLITUS Forster. 



This genus has not been recognized since it was briefly characterized 



•by Doctor Forster in 1862. 1 have recognized all of Forster's genera, 



although Rev. T. A. Marshall ignores them and has apparently 



lumped" them all under Aphidlus Nees and Triowys Haliday. 



This genus is closely allied to Aphidius Nees, but differs decidedly 



