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longer than the basal which is much thinner than it and runs into and above 

 its upper part at the cost?,. Hind tibiae with two spurs — 5th abdominal seg- 

 ment slightly shorter than the 4th ; the thorax is at the most shagreened ; 

 the abdomen smooth and shining. The antennas are inserted v\ ell upon the 

 head, distinctly nearer the ocelli than the mouth. 



In the arrangement of Ashmead (Mem. Cairn. Mus. i. 202). this genus 

 runs near to Xantliosoma. Its characteristic features are the smooth body, 

 long slender antennal scape projecting largely above the head, the large scu- 

 tellum of equal width and bearing two furrows, the long marginal and short 

 post-marginal. 



Lisseurytoma nigrirornis.sp. n. 



Testaceous, the flagellum of r.ntennse, tips of mandibles and apical joint 

 of antenna? black ; wings clear hyabne, the nervures fuscous — smooth, shining 

 bare, except the flagellum which is covered with stiff longish black hair. 

 Antenna? as long as the head and thorax united. Female. Length, 2 m.m. 



Bred from pupae found in fruit of Cardiospermum halicacahum, Prob- 

 ably the host was one of the fruit feeding Diptera. 



Bephrata maculicollis, sp. n. 



Black, densely covered with white pubescence, the sides of the front, 

 the mark continued along the orbits to the middle of the top of the eyes, it 

 becoming gradually narrowed above, the face except in the centre, oral region, 

 the lower th ee-fourths of the outer orbits, malar space, mandibles except the 

 teeth, the prothorax, except three large marks on the pronotum, the central 

 extending from the base to the apex, the lateral not commencing at the base, 

 the abdomen and legs, fulvo-testaceous, the abdomen darker coloured, the 

 apical segments almost black, the coxae and femora are fuscous for the 

 greater part ; the tibiae and tarsi are densely covered with white pubescence ; 

 the abdominal segments are fringed with long white hair. Antennal scape 

 and the 2nd joint of flagellum testaceous, the rest black, brownish below ; 

 the 3rd joint about one third longer than the 4th . Wings hyaline, a large 

 fuscous cloud in the centre, extending to the end of the stigmal branch ; the 

 basal nervures black, those in the cloud fuscous ; the costa has the apical 

 third thickened, bullated at the end. Head and thorax coarsely umbilically 

 punctate, the punctures on the metanotum larger, forming reticulations. 

 Malar space longer than the eyes ; the occiput margined — The black central 

 part of the face is smooth, bare, shining and .vith a smooth keel down the 

 middle. Clypeas smooth, bordered by an obscurely crenulated furrow. Collar 

 large, but shorter than the upper part of the head. Scutellum longer than 

 wide, the apex ending in two bluntly rounded projections. The sides of meta- 

 notum are broadly rounded. Female. Length, 8 mm. 



The abdomen is compressed ; its base is broadly rounded above, pro- 

 jecting above the thorax ; from this raised part, becomes gradually narrowed. 



