New Hymenoptera Trichogrammatidae in the Zoological Museum 



at Berlin. 



Tribe Chaetostrichini. 

 Chaetostrichella uew geuusi). 



Female: Antenuae 5-joiuted with one ring-joint wliich is distinct, the club 

 solid, the pedicel eloiigate, nearly as long as the scape, twice the length of the siDgle 

 fuuicle Joint. Fore wings rather broad, uormally ciliate, the marginal cilia short 

 (the longest not a sixth of the greatest wing width); venatiou not reachiug to the 

 middle of the wing, straight, the marginal veiu longer than the siibmarginal, the 

 stigmal subsessile, nearly at right angles to the marginal. Abdomen couic-ovate, not 

 long but longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor (and valves) exserted for 

 over a third of its length and the distal segment produced into a short Stylus whicli 

 is three fourths the length of the exserted portion of the ovipositor. Tiliial spiirs 

 Single, that of the cephalic legs minute aud straight (absent, perhaps, since it is no 

 longer than the clothing of the legs). Mandibles tridentate, tlie head triangulär. 

 Legs slender. Hind wings missing. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Chaetostrichella platoni uew species. 



Female: Length 0,80 mm, excluding the exserted portion of the ovipositor. 



Black, the appendages concolorous, the fore wings uniformly, lightly infumated 

 and at its widest part bearing about 18 lines of discal cilia; stigmal vein with a 

 distinct uncus which points distad. Tibiae hairy, the tarsal joints long. Antennae 

 with a few long setae, the club longer than the scape, the funicle Joint distinctiy 

 wider than long. 



Described from one female labelled „Oligosita. 28,965. Coli. H. Rhd." The 

 collector was H. Reinhard. 



Habitat: Germany. 



Type: Kat. No. 31956, Zoological Museum, Berlin, the above specinien on a 

 slide in xylol-balsam (remounted from a card). 



') Desciiptions made with ^/a-inch objective, 1-inch optic. Bausch and Lumb. 

 Mitt. a. d. Zool. Mus. in Berlin. VII. Bd. a. H. H 



