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hccii labelled as Cotypes. There are also in this collection two 

 individuals taken by Mr. Terry at Hong Kong. Mr. Swezey 

 has pnhlished the opinion that this species was introduced into 

 the Islands from Japan by Mr. Koebele and has recorded it as 

 i)reedinu' npon Nacoleia accopta (Bntler), N. Blackburni (Bnt- 

 ler), /Ii/Diriiia recurralls (Fabricius) and Archips postritianu.s 

 (Walker), all leaf rolling Lejiidoptera. 



Microbracon Pembertoni n. sp. 



Bracoii sp. Swezey. Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. 3 :109. 

 (Last entry so headed). 1915. 



$ . Red ; tips of mandibles, palpi more or less, antennae, eyes, 

 ocelli, propodeum more or less (often only very slightly, at the inser- 

 tion of the abdomen), ovipositor sheaths, tarsi and apex of hind 

 femora more or less, black or blackish. Wings fuscous subhyaline, 

 nervures the same except that the costa basally is reddish and the stigma 

 is yellow. 



Head and thorax highly polished and shining: the tergites rugu- 

 lose, the connate second and third tergites more coarsely so. Suture 

 of tlie second and third tergites crenulate ; suture between the third 

 and fourth (free) tergites smooth, a sulcus there but indefinite behind. 



Antennae about 40-jointed, about as long as the body, ovipositor 

 about three-fourths as long as the head, thorax, and abdomen together. 



Length about 4 mm. ; wings 5 mm. ; ovipositor 3 mm. 



^ . Similar to the female but smaller. 



Described from 24 5 ? and •22 S S collected or bred on 

 tlie island of Oahn, the earliest record being in April, 1014. 



Type 9 and allotype S in the collection of the Hawaiian 

 Entomological Society, paratypes in the F. S. iSTational ^Iii- 

 senm, in the collection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Asso- 

 ciation and in the private collections of P. H. Timherlake and 

 of the author. 



It has been bred froui berries of Laiifdiui rtniiard. ]>rob- 

 ably from the larva of (' roc'idoKcma hinfanae by O. H. Swezey 

 and J. (\ Bridwell, from Peetinophora f/ofis;yple]1a by T). T. 

 Fullaway, C. E. Pemberton, and IT. F. AVillard, and froui 

 M yclo'is. ccratoniae and CryptopliJehia illepida the former in 

 ]»ods of Acacia farnesmna, the latter in the s^me and in the 

 ])ods of Acacia l-na (J. C. Bridwell). 



