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ocelli five times as far from the eye margin as the distance between 

 them; vertex and front shining, with a few lateral punctures; antennae 

 about 43-jointed ; joints 1-4 of flagellum subequal, the remainder suc- 

 cessively shorter, all much longer than broad. 



Mesonotum with deep crenulate parapsidal furrows converging be- 

 hind and meeting a little in front of the prescutellar sulcus ; anterior 

 margins of the lateral lobes with a shallow crenulate marginal furrow ; 

 mesopleura with an anterior crenulate sulcus meeting the crenulate 

 sternopleural sulcus at right angles ; prescutellar sulcus divided into 

 4-6 pits by carinae ; propodeum reticulate-areolate, with a longitudinal 

 median carjna imperfectly indicated for its anterior third. 



Abdomen smooth and shining, slightly compressed, about as long 

 as the head and thorax together, its sides nearly parallel ; first tergite 

 about twice as long as wide at apex, with a median area limiced for 

 about two-thirds of its length from the base by carinae, smooth basally, 

 aciculate apically; the rest of the tergites smooth and highly polished, 

 shining, only the anterior sulcus of the second distinct, th's smooth and 

 very narrowly interrupted in the middle ; connate second -dnd third ter- 

 gites about one and one-half times as long as broad, about as long as 

 the rest of the abdomen beyond ; ovipositor about as long as the head, 

 thorax and abdomen together. 



Length 3.5, ovipositor 3.5, wing 3.75 mm. 



$ similar to the $ ;• apical segments of the abdomen often black- 

 ish. The apex of the abdomen is rounded, not widened to the aiiex and 

 truncate as in H. habilis. 



Described from 29 9 and 4 S bred, with many others. 

 from varions frnit flies of the genera Dacns and Ceratitis at 

 Oloke Meji, Ibadan Nigeria, August-N^ovember, 1914, 



Type $ , allotype $ and paratypes in the collection of the 

 Hawaiian Board of Agriculture and Forestry; paratypes in the 

 author's collection. 



It is with some hesitation that this species and the follow- 

 ing are referred to Hedylus, since the female of H. habilis 

 Marshall is still undescribed and there is some little divergence 

 in the abdominal characters of that species from desidevatus,- 

 clypeatus and Giffardi Silvestri. The stigma is broadly lanceo- 

 late ; the first abscissa of the radius is about -one half the length 

 of the second; the cubitus is continued beyond the second cu- 

 bital cell the discoidal cells are completely closed. The para- 

 psidal furrows are stronger and crenulate in the African spe- 

 cies and the petiole is by no means sublinear. HoA':ever, they 



