318 Timehri. 
In the arrangement of Ashmead (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. XX, 117) this genus 
runs to Aridelus, March, which may be known from it by the 1st cubital cellule 
being confluent with the Ist discoidal. Szepligeti (Gen. Ins. Braconide, 177) 
only accepts 2 genera—Meteorus and Zemiotes—the latter being separated from 
the former by the radial cellule in the hind wings being divided in two by a 
transverse nervure. The present genus may be known from Meteorus by the 
head not being margined and by the mesonotum wanting furrows. The thorax 
of the known species is shorter, wider and much more strongly reticulated all 
over than usual. 
Erythrometeorus reticulatus, sp.n. 
Ferruginous, the antenne, mandibular teeth, stemmaticum, apex of hind 
tibie and the hind tarsi, black ; wings fuscous, the stigma and nervures black, 
the hinder part of the basal 2 cubital cellules streaked with hyaline. Male. 
Length 7 m.m. 
Head and abdomen smooth, the thorax coarsely reticulated ; the reticulations 
large, deep, irregular, round or longer than broad, transverse or rounded at the 
base and apex. Scutellum with a fovea in the centre of the base and 2 large 
ones, placed transversely, in the centre of the apex. The abdominal petiole 
half the length of the rest of the abdomen, its basal half slightly narrowed, 
pallid yellow. The last joint of the antenne isrufous. The 3rd abscissa of the 
radius is broadly roundly curved. 
DIoPsILIn ® 2 
Rhopalotoma, gen. nov. 
Wings with 3 cubital cellules, the 2nd the smaller,narrowed in front ; the radial 
cellule long, reaching to the apex of the wing, the radius issuing from shortly 
behind the middle of the stigma ; issuing from the transverse basal nervure ; the 
transverse median nervure received beyond the transverse basal, at the apex of 
the basal third of the cellule ; externo-median nervure with the apical half 
roundly curved backwards ; anal nervure almost interstitial. Clypeus separat- 
ed by a furrow from the face, its apex transverse. Occiput and cheeks margi- 
gined. Metanotum with 2 diverging keels down the centre. Abdomen sessile, the 
basal 2 segments striated, keeled down the middle. Legs short and stout ; the 
4 anterior tarsi; shorter than the tibie ,the basal joint longer than wide, the 
3 following wider than long, longer than the basal joints united, much thicker 
than them, roundly narrowed at the base ; they are two-thirds of the length of 
the tibiz ; the hinder has the basal joint more and the apical less strongly di- 
lated ; the metatarsus is as longasthe others united, the last as long as the 
preceding 3 united and thicker than them ; the apical joint of the anterior is 
larger dilated, becoming gradually widened towards the apex, as long as the 
basal 4 united ; that on the 2nd pair is dilated, but not so strongly as the Ist, 
the ‘ast is still more slender than it. The spurs are minute, the claws small. 
The parapsidal furrows are distinct on the basal half of the mesonotum ; the 
spi acles on the lst abdominal segment are placed near the base ; through the 
bounding nervures being bullated below, the 2nd discoidal cellule is open 
