128 Timehri. 



The wide head and mesonotum, the absence of parapsidal furrows and the 

 3 fovea? on the sides of the metanotum are the characteristic features of this 

 genus of Pteromalince. 



Mrmiea laticeps, sp. n. 



Head and thorax dark bronzy black, the vertex and front laterally tinged 

 with blue ; the abdomen bright bronzy black, the base, sides apex and ventral 

 surface bright metallic blue ; antennal scape and pedicle fulvo-testaceous, 

 the flagellum black, densely covered with white pubescence ; legs yellowish 

 testaceous, the femora for the greater part black, the hinder more completely 

 so than the others. The head and thorax bear distinctly separated white 

 hairs, the head with them shorter and closer than the thorax. Head finely, 

 closely punctured ; the mesonotum and scutellum much more strongly reticu- 

 lated. Base of scutellum wide, not much narrower than the apex ; the basal 

 furrow deep, transverse, the lateral oblique furrows narrower. Tegula? pale 

 testaceous. Female. Length, 1.5-2 mm. 



" On a Syrphid pupa/' 



Pro-and metapleurae smooth, the latter with a large fovea down the centre 

 of the base, the lower part closely punctured ; the rnesopleura? closely reticu- 

 lated. 



Pteromalus couridce. sp. n. 



Head dark blue, the pro- and mesothorax black, tinged with purple, the 

 metathorax green, the abdomen black tinged with purple, the base and sides 

 of 1st segment green, the green on the sides becoming gradually narrowed ; 

 legs yellow, almost white, the greater part of the femora black, more or less 

 tinged with fuscous, the coxae black to near the apex ; antennas with the 

 pedicle and scape yellowish testaceous, the rest darker testaceous, blackish 

 above, the pedicle pyriform, twice longer than it is wide at the apex, the 3rd 

 joint one quarter longer than the 4th ; the last three form a not very clearly 

 separated club : the antenna? are slightly longer than the head and thorax- 

 united. Head closely, finely punctured, more strongly on the vertex than 

 elsewhere ; the front bearing on the sides, white scattered hairs. Pro-notum 

 finely, closely, the mesonotum more strongly transversely striated, the stria? 

 more or less intertwining ; those on the lateral lobes finer and forming almost 

 reticulations. Scutellum, finely, closely, reticulated. Metanotum shining, 

 smooth, the middle raised, bordered by keels, the sides (they are larger than 

 the central part) bordered by a keel which curves inwardly at the apex. 

 Wings clear hyaline, the nervures pallid testaceous ; the marginal and post- 

 marginal nervures are of almost equal length the stigmal branch fully half 

 their length, its apex triangularly dilated. Abdomen fully as long as the head, 

 and thorax united, from the middle becoming gradually narrowed to a fine 

 point the apical segments fringed with white hair. Female. Length, 1.5 mm. 



Bred from galls on Oourida leaves. 



Ocelli in a curve, the hinder separated from each other by almost double 

 the distance they are from the eyes. Occiput almost transverse, the temples 

 very slightly developed. 



