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each other; antennae 20-jointed, stout, with short pubescence, monili- 

 form at apex (5 apical joints) ; scape punctured, as broad as long; 

 fourth joint about 5 times as long as broad; fifth a little shorter; the 

 others successively shorter to the penultimate which is a very little 

 longer than broad ; last joint ovate, a little longer. 



Mesonotum shining, finely hairy, sparsely punctured ; parapsidal 

 furrows fine, rather shallow, parallel, not reaching more than half the 

 length of the sclerite ; prescutellar fovea rather deep with raised trans- 

 verse lines at its bottom ; scutellum subtriangular, proturberent, shining, 

 sparsely, finely punctured ; mesopleura shining, with fine scattered punc- 

 tures ,the anterior and posterior marginal sulci consute. Basal area of 

 propodeum trapezoidal with about 15 punctiform pits occup3'ing its 

 surface ; petiolar area strongly concave, reticulate above transversely 

 ridged below ; external areas smooth basally, reticulate along the costula ; 

 dentiparal area more or less irregularly reticulate ; .spiracular area reti- 

 culate, the spiracles small ; pleural areas transversely striate or sulcate, 

 reticulate next the coxae. 



Post petiole somewhat aciculate, the spiracles a little nearer the apex 

 than to each other ; remainder of abdomen smooth, shining and highly 

 polished; ungues slender, elongate; subdiscoidal nerve arismg from the 

 middle of the nervellus ; subdiscoidal nerve of hind wing arising far 

 below the middle of the nervellus. 



Described from one 2 bred from the pupariimi of an unde^ 

 termined species of Sarcophaga living in decaying fisli nsed 

 as fertilizer in the field. Okitsn, Japan, Jan. 19lr>. (F. ^Mnir). 

 Type in the anthor's collection. 



2. Atractodes Maliyi n. sp. 



Very similar to^A. Muiri. 



Mandibles entirely black; 2d joint of trochanter black; fifth segment 

 of abdomen dark ; the coloration otherwise as in Muiri. 



Anterior margin of clypeus not depressed, a little produced in the 

 middle, smooth and shining at apex ; front and vertex very highly 

 polished and shining, with only a few scattered minute punctures ; ulti- 

 mate joints of antennae not so distinctly moniliform. 



Mesonotum more highly polished and shining; the parapsidal fur- 

 rows more distinct, reaching farther to the rear, punctures minute, in- 

 distinct, scattered ; median elevated area of metanotum ti ifid in front 

 (simple in Muiri) ; sides of pronotum imperfectly striate (only the pos- 

 terior margin consute in Muiri) ; basal area of propodeum transverse, 

 irregularly rugose or shagreened. 



Spiracles of first tergite about as far from each other as from the 

 apex, post petiole less expanded. 



