98 ME. L. O. HOWAED ON THE PARASITIC HTMEKOPTEEA 



Subfamily Pieenikje. 

 Heebeetia* gen. nov. 



2 . Antennse 10-jointed, inserted just above clypeus, sbort, 

 clavate; scape short, slender, not reaching to middle of face; 

 funicle- joints subequal in length, but increasing rapidly in width 

 from 1 to 5 ; club short, compact, acute at tip, flattened from 

 side; face below eyes short, gense straight; facial depression 

 deep and broad, occupying more than half the width of face 

 between eyes, its margin rounded ; eyes hairy ; ocelli large, 

 placed at the angles of a right-angled triangle ; occipital margin 

 rounded. Parapsidal furrows of mesoscutum sharp and com- 

 plete, continuous with axillar furrows ; axillae widely separated ; 

 mesoscutum and scutellum rather flat, in the same longitudinal 

 plane, scutellum at tip and metanotum abruptly declivous ; sub- 

 marginal vein of fore wing reaching costa at about one third the 

 wing-length, marginal a little longer than submarginal ; post- 

 marginal long, shading ofi" almost imperceptibly, apparently 

 somewhat more than one third the length of marginal ; stigmal 

 short, very oblique, about one third the length of postmarginal, 

 club not pronounced, uncus rather long, forming a little more 

 than a right angle with a shaft of stigmal ; metanotum nearly 

 rectangular, a little narrower behind, the hinder angles sharp and a 

 little extended ; hind coxa with a pronounced dorsal tooth above 

 near tip as in some Chalcidincd. Abdomen ovate, thick dorso- 

 ventrally ; second tergite occupying about half of the dorsum of 

 abdomen ; pygidium rather large, projecting well beyond the 

 terminal ventral segments (urites) ; ovipositor generally extruded. 



(S . Yery similar to female. Antennal flagellum shorter than 

 in female, club equally flattened, but broader and rounded at tip ; 

 coxal projection less pronounced; metanotum more contracted 

 behind. Abdomen ovate, slightly truncate at tip, not flattened, 

 second tergite occupying less than half the dorsum. 



Of the described Pirenine genera, this resembles most closely 

 Senicetrus, Thomson, which T know, however, from the very brief 

 description in ' Skandinaviens Hymenoptera,' iv. p. 190. 



Heebeetia LTJCEisrs, sp. n. 



$ . Length 1"5 millim. ; expanse 2'5 millim. Antennal scape 

 straight, slender, cylindrical ; pedicel twice as long as first f unicle- 



* From Herbert, the first name of Mr. H. H. Smith. 



