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white hairs, the hind border costate, metathorax subquadrate and 

 rugose, petiolar area hexagonal and more or less smooth. Abdomen 

 highly polished, elongate, depressed, widening slightly outwardly, 

 apically somewhat compressed, 1st segment rather long, 2nd sub- 

 quandrate, others shorter and transverse, segments 2-4 with transverse 

 median depression and anterior lateral angles separated by deep 

 grooves. Ovipositor exserted about half the length of the abdomen. 

 Legs moderately stout, posterior pair larger, with greatly lengthened 

 coxae, a spine on the lower face of the femur and a double row of short 

 spines oh the outer face of the tibia and tarsus. Claws stout and 

 simple. Wings fuliginous, veins and stigma almost black, areolet 

 quadrate, narrowed ov.twardly, receiving the 2nd recurrent nervure at 

 the lower outer angle, submedian cell a trifle shorter than the median, 

 discoidal nervure arising from the lower third of the 2nd discoidal cell, 

 transverse median nervure of the hind wings broken well beyond its 

 middle. 



Black with some brownish tints, face and basal joints of the an- 

 tennae reddish brown, front legs brown, middle and hind legs and 

 abdomen deep reddish brown. 



Hal). Guam. Described from three female specimens. 



47. Echthromorpha covtinna (Bnille). ^ 



48. Paniscus latro Holm. 



ALYSIIDAE. 



49. AspUota pitietisis n. sj). 



^ Length about 2mm. Black, the two basal joints of the antennae, 

 prothorax, abdomen basally and legs pale to reddish brown; smooth 

 and shining, the head transverse, temples broad and rounded; face 

 broad, convex, retracted below, antennae inserted at about the 

 middle on a well-defined frontal prominence, setaceous, 21-jointed, 

 mandibles exserted, 3-dentate, maxillary palpi 5-jointed, long; labial 

 palpi ■l-jointed, short; pronotum narrow in front and extending on 

 sides almost to the tegulae; mesonotum convex, without parapsides, 

 scutullum small, triangular, with a deep forvea at the base divided by a 

 median carina; metathorax short, declivious, with a well-defined 

 petiolar area; abdomen elongate oval, petiolate; legs long and slender; 

 wings hyaline, veins black, stigma long and slender, marginal cell 

 complete, radius reaching the tip of the wing, recurrent nervure join- 

 ing the 2nd cubital cell. 



Hal). Guam. Described from a single .specimen. 



BRACOXIDAE. 



oO. Macivcentrus pallidum n. sp. 

 5 Length 4mm. Flavo-testaceous, eyes, ocelli and tips of man- 



