110 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



including clypeus, not higher than broad; vertex smooth and shining; 

 ocelH separated by less than their own diameter. Antennae 35-jointed, 

 slender, the joints at the middle nearly half longer than thick. IMeso- 

 notum shining, the parapsidal furrows very sharp and crenulate, 

 but narrow; basal groove of scutellum broad, deep and coarsely 

 crenulate. Propodeum smooth in front, coarsely reticulate behind 

 where it is areolate, but irregularly so, the sculpture concealed by the 

 pubescence. First abdominal segment with two longitudinal grooves 

 separating a median portion that is strongly elevated behind; second 

 segment before the transverse groove elevated, but without a median 

 raised area. Propleurae striate below, irregularly punctate above; 

 mesopleura with an irregularly punctate space near the top and below 

 the middle, with a punctate line inside the posterior margin; meta- 

 pleura smooth; sides of propodeum reticulate. Legs stout. Cubitus 

 arising at the middle of the basal vein; first section of radius shorter 

 than upper section of basal vein. 



This species may be the same as C. fasciatus Szep. from New Guinea, 

 but it is impossible to tell from the original description (Termes. 

 fuzetek, 1900, 23, p. 60) which omits the structural details of the 

 Papuan species. 



Bracon (Cremnops) salomonis, sp. nov. 



Type and Paratype. — M. C. Z. 9,060. Solomons: Santa Cruz, 

 Graciosa Bay. W. M. Mann. A fourth specimen from Auki has the 

 abdomen entirely yellow. 



cf. Length, 7-8 mm. Pale fulvous, marked with black, the 

 mandibles and venter more or less luteus. Head, except for a small 

 ferruginous dot at middle of face, and antennae, black; teeth of man- 

 dibles, apical third of hind tibiae and hind tarsi, except extreme base 

 of the joints, black; fifth and also usually the fourth segment of 

 abdomen with a large transverse dark brown or black stain; wings 

 black, the stigma brown basally and the parastigma luteus; discoidal 

 cell with an irregular curved hyaline mark at the base. Head approxi- 

 mately as broad as high; malar space as long as the eye; front shining, 

 finely punctate, almost straight in profile; frontal carinae extending 

 to the lateral ocelli, but not so sharp on their inner half; maxillary 

 palpi one half longer than the labial ones; antennae 40-jointed, scape, 

 simple at apex; third joint distinctly longer than the fourth. Lateral 

 pits of pronotum separated by a narrow median space. Middle lobe 



