igoo] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEV/S. 623 



Some New Exotic Parasitic Hymenoptera. 



By William H. Ashmead, U. S. National Museum. 



Prof. T. D. Alfken, Assistant Entomologist in the Stadtis- 

 ches Museum fiir Natur-, Volker- und Handelskunde at Bre- 

 men, by the direction of the Director, Dr. Hugo H. Schauins- 

 land, has recently sent me for determination a small but inter- 

 esting collection of parasitic Hymenoptera, among which were 

 a few new forms collected by the Director and himself in the 

 Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. 



The latter were of especial interest to me, because I have 

 been working up recently the parasitic Hymenoptera taken 

 some years ago by Mr. Albert Koebele in Australia and New 

 Zealand, as well as a lot of bred material received from Mr. 

 W. W. Froggatt, the Government Entomologist at Sydney, 

 New South Wales. 



The new species and genera received from Dr. Schauinsland 

 are described below. 



Superfamily VH, CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family LXXI, EULOPHID^. 



EULOPHUS Geoffroy. 



(i) Ealophns albitarsisn. sp. 



9. — Length 2.4 mm. ^neous black, the metathorax sometimes with 

 a metallic green lustre. The head and thorax, including the scutellum, 

 shagreened or recticulate, and clothed with some sparse black hairs ; 

 mesopleura on posterior half smooth and polished, but anteriorly reticu- 

 late ; metathorax short, smooth, shining, with a median elevjktion and an 

 acute ridge laterally, the latter fringed with long white hairs ; spiracles 

 large, oval. The head is transverse and thin, antero-posteriorly the tem- 

 ples being narrow ; the face is concave for the reception of the antennae, 

 wliich are inserted /ar anteriorly, and 8-jointed ; the scape is slender, but 

 does not quite reach to the front ocellus, is about half as long as the Ha- 

 gellum, with the pedicel united, and of an aeneous black color ; the flagel- 

 lum is dull black ; the pedicel obconical, smooth and longer than thick ; 

 the funicle joints gradually become shorter and shorter, the first, the long- 

 est, being slightly longer than the pedicel. Legs aeneous black, the knees 

 and the anterior tibiae beneath reddish or dark honey-yellow, while all 

 the tarsi, except one or two terminal joints, are pale honey-yellow or 

 whitish. Abdomen aeneous black, oval, wider than the thorax, and as 

 long as or slightly longer than the head and thorax united, the segments 



