412 



third as wide as long excluding the radicle ; pedicel short or hardly- 

 longer than its apical thickness ; ilagellum slender, cylindrical, clothed 

 with long hairs more or less distinctly verticillate, each funicle joint 

 angularly incised at apex ; first funicle joint about five times as long 

 as thick, the following joints gradually shortening, the sixth being some- 

 what more than one half as long as the first ; first joint with five whorls 

 of hairs, the following joints with three whorls, the hairs on the under 

 surface excepting on most of the first joint one half shorter and semi- 

 decumbent; club long, slender, very pointed at apex, as long as the 

 last two funicle joints and one-half of the fourth joint, provided with 

 about seven whorls of hairs which become gradually shorter and more 

 crowded towards the apex; under side of the sixth funicle joint with a 

 row of five to seven short, erect, clavatc hairs, the base of clul) with 

 two more in alignment. 



Thorax as in the female ; abdomen much smaller, or about four- 

 fifths as long as the thorax, being ovate, depressed, broadest just be- 

 yond the cordate base and truncate at apex. Wings somewhat shorter 

 and proportionately much wider than in the female, the disk much less 

 densely ciliated ; the speculum broad, extending from the stignial vein 

 obliquely towards the opposite margin, briefly interrupted lielow the 

 middle, the cut-off portion being large and distinct; marginal vein much 

 shorter or about equal to one-half the stigmal, the postmarginal better 

 developed or as long as the marginal. 



Face, mesoscutum and axillae very minutely reticulate and moder- 

 ately shiny, the frontovertex more opaque and microscopically, trans- 

 versely lineolate with a few scattered minute punctures ; scutellum gran- 

 ular reticulate and opaque but becoming smooth and shining on the 

 lateral and posterior margins, pleura and abdomen a little more shiny 

 and more coarsely reticulate than the mesoscutum, the lines on the 

 first tergite concentrically arranged as in the female. Pubescence about 

 as abundant as in the female but much less conspicuous, being whitish 

 only on the face and cheeks and less distinctly whitish on the sides 

 of the mesoscutum. the hairs on the mesonotum being longer and not 

 flattened ; eyes more densely pubescent. 



Length: (0.61 to) 1.16; width of vertex: 0.252; width of meso- 

 scutum: 0.426; length of wing: i.ii; width of fore-wing: 0.502 mm. 



Coloration black, moderately shining, the frontovertex and scutel- 

 lum more or less opaque ; mandibles brown ; posterior margin of the 

 propleura and the prepectal plates translucent yellowish ; antennae black 

 with the apex of the pedicel obscurely yellowish; legs maize yellow (R.), 

 the hind coxae somewhat dusky at base ; wings hyaline, the veins pale 

 "brownish. 



Described from 94 females, 50 nuiles (type, allotype and 

 })aratypes) reared from Antonina indica Green on Bermuda 

 grass, Punaliou district, Honolulu, Oahu, Mav' 26 to July, 



