169 



$ Abdomen not at all compressed, rounded at apex, tergites 2-5 

 rufous or all but 3d blackish. Antennae 25-jointed not all monlliform. 

 Length 6.5 mm., wing 5.5 mm. 



Described from 29 $9 and 8 5 5 bred at Cape Town 

 from an undetermined SarcopJiaga living in human excrement 

 and experimentally from other species of Sarcophaga living 

 in carrion. The habits of this species were discussed under 

 the name of AUotypa sp. in these Proceedings 3:492-493, 

 1918. 



The type ? and allotype $ will be placed iu the South 

 African Museum; paratypes in the collection of the Hawaiian 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, in the collection of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association and in the private col- 

 lections of P. H. Timberlake and of the author. 



Named in appreciation of Charles W. Mally, Cape En- 

 tomologist, and his works upon the biology and f'onomic^ of 

 fruit flies and the house fly including studies of their natural 

 enemies. 



BRACONIDAE, Vipioninae. 

 3. Microbracon Terryi n. sp. 



$ Black, mandible in the middle, sides of all the tergites (more 

 broadly in front so that the first and second are only dark spotted 

 discally or are entirely yellow), the ovipositor (but not the s;heaths), 

 knees, front femora apically more or less, hind tibiae basally more or 

 less, and calcaria yellow, the pale markings suffused and their limits 

 indefinite, mouth more or less reddish, wings and venation fuscocs sub- 

 hyaline. 



Highly polished and shining, the second tergite feebly rugose behind 

 the median area of the first, its anterior furrow interrupted medially 

 about one-half the width of the median area of the first, suture of the 

 connate aecond and third tergites smooth. 



Antennae about 28-jointed, longer than the head and thorax Ovi- 

 positor longer than the head, thorax, and abdomen together. 



Length 3 mm., ovipositor 4 mm., wing 3.5 mm. 



(5 Similar to the female, the abdomen sometimes entirely dark. 



Described from 24 $ 5 and IS 5 5 from the Hawaiian 

 Islands: Honolulu (Terry, Timberlake) Oahu Sugnr Co. 



