342 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [DcC. , '04 



On the Discovery of Fig-insects in the Philippines. 

 By William H. Ashmead. 



Representatives of nearly all the known families of the Hy- 

 menoptera are rapidly being discovered in the Philippine Islands, 

 and I have now the pleasure of recording the discovery, by 

 Father Robert Brown, of fig-insects or, better, fig- wasps in the 

 archipelago belonging to two distinct families, — Fam. Agaoni- 

 dse, or genuine fig-wasps, and Fam. Torymidae, sub-fam. Idar- 

 ninse, or parasitic fig-insects. 



The two species are described below. 



Family AGAONID^. 

 Genus KRADIBIA Saunders. 

 Kradibia brownii n. sp. 



9 . — Length 0.9 mm. ; ovipositor short, about one-third the length of the 

 abdomen. Black and shining, the eyes pale, the scape and pedicel of the 

 antennae rufo-testaceous, the flagellum black or brown-black, the five last 

 joints enlarged, the last joint the largest, oval ; the legs — except the hind 

 coxse, which are black, and the very long tarsi, which are white — are brown, 

 ish yellow ; the wings are hyaline, but with the veins dark brown, the 

 stigmal vein being slightly longer than the marginal, the postmarginal 

 much longer. 



Type, No. 8177, U. S. N. M. 



Manila. Described from a single specimen. 



This genus was originally described from Australia. 



Family TORYMID^. 

 •Genus SYCORYCTES Mayr. 

 Sycoryctes philippinensis n. sp. 



$. — Length 1.4 mm.; ovipositor very long, nearly twice as long as the 

 whole insect and clavate at tip. Brownish yellow, the eyes brown, the 

 dorsum of abdomen towards base with a black spot, the sheaths of the 

 ovipositor entirely black ; the scape of the antennae and the legs are pale 

 yellowish, the flagellum being brownish ; the wings are hyaline, the veins 

 pale yellowish ; the long stigmal vein is a little shorter than the marginal, 

 the postmarginal vein being long. 



Type, No. 8178, U. S. N. M. 



This genus was originally described from Java, but I have 

 representatives of it from Australia and New South Wales no 

 yet described. 



