94 ME. L. 0. HOWAED ON THE PAEASITIC HTMENOPTEEA 



broader than joint 6; flagellum with very short pubescence, 

 Front very convex, almost angulate in middle ; facial depression 

 very marked ; genal sulcus complete, but very indistinct ; eyes 

 sparsely bairy ; vertex not narrow, ocelli forming a slightly 

 obtuse-angled triangle ; head with a very fine reticulated sculpture 

 and with a jingle row of fine punctures around the margin of the 

 eyes ; occipital ridge extremely sharp. Mesoscutum very finely 

 but closely and deeply shagreened and furnished with fine sparse 

 pubescence, opaque ; mesoscutellum highly lustrous, nearly 

 smooth, slightly shagreened near base. Marginal, postraarginal, 

 and stigmal veins of the fore wings all nearly equal in length o 

 G-eneral colour bright honey-yellow ; antennae brown, darkest on 

 upper surface of scape, pedicel, and club ; head and pronotum 

 uniform black, with greenish-metallic lustre ; mesoscutum, except 

 lateral margins, a brilliant peacock-blue ; mesoscutellum golden- 

 green; abdomen dark, with a golden-green lustre; hind tarsi 

 dusky, nearly black. 



Described from one male specimen. 



Enctetus nitidtjs, sp. n. 



$ . Lengtb 1*4 millim. ; expanse 2-6 millim. Eesembles E.- 

 fuscipennis, Dalm., perhaps more closely than any other species. 

 Scape arising halfway between bend of face and mouth, sub- 

 cylindrical, not broadened, very short, only five times as long as 

 tbick; pedicel three times as long as thick and twice as long as 

 the somewhat narrower first funicle-joint ; funiele-joints increas- 

 ing very slightly in length and more in width from 1 to 6 ; club 

 flattened, oval, as long as the two preceding funiele-joints together. 

 Pront narrow between the eyes ; ocelli forming an acute-angled 

 triangle ; front and vertex very finely shagreened, with four rows 

 of punctures ; cheeks smooth ; genal sulcus absent. Mesoscutum 

 lustrous, very faintly shagreened, with sparse, short, whitish 

 pubescence ; mesoscutellum densely punetulate at base, then 

 closely striate to tip, which is smooth and shining. Abdomen 

 flattened dorso-ventrally, acuminate, as long as head and thorax 

 together ; ovipositor slightly extruded, Stigmal vein given 

 off" at juncture of submarginal and costa, short, postmarginal 

 of equal length ; a broad, oblique, hairless line below stigma, 

 across whicb passes obliquely towards costa a single row of 

 minute hairs. General colour black, with metallic- greenish or 

 bluish reflections ; antennae honey-yellow, flagellum a little darker 

 than scape ; front legs, including coxae, light honey-yellow j 



