Deutsch. Eilt. Zeitsclir. 1909. 205 



Descriptions of three undescribed species of Ghalcididae 



from Borneo. (Hym.) 



By P. Cameron, New Mills by Stockport (England). 



Philome cl e s s p in if r ons sp. nov. 



Black , the tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous , middle of man- 

 dibles dark rufous, palpi dark brown, almost black ; wings hyaline, 

 the marginal vein thickened, the veins black. $. 



Length 3 mm. • — ■ Kuching, Borneo (John Hewitt). 



Face sparsely, but distinctly punctured, covered with short, 

 white pubescence , its central part raised , bounded by a curved 

 furrow ; the malar space minutely , closely punctured , the outer 

 orbits smooth, bare. Frontal depression deep, narrowed towards 

 the top, the sides raised into a keel ; below is a distinct conical 

 plate or tooth. Ocelli almost in a straight line, the middle one 

 projeeting very little beyond the lateral. Base of pronotum above 

 roundly broadly dilated, the sides project ; it is closely rugosely 

 punctured ; the mesonotum is more strongly punctured, the punc- 

 tures mostly round and clearly separated ; the parapsidal furrows 

 are distinct on the apical half. Scutellum large , longer than 

 the mesonotum, broad at the base, gradually narrowed from there 

 to the apex, its length being more than the width at the base. 

 Metanotum stoutly , irregularly transversely striated , the striae 

 more or less curved, the sides somewhat stoutly keeled. Pleurae 

 strongly punctured, the punctures deep, round, clearly separated. 

 Abdomen shorter than the thorax, wider at the base than at the 

 apex, which is bluntly rounded ; the basal segments are smooth, 

 the apical finely punctured. 



The frontal spine is placed at the antennae , it is broadly 

 flattened , narrowed towards the apex , longer than it is wide at 

 the base. The 2 mandibular teeth stout, triangulär, separated by 

 a triangulär wide incision. 



Mr. Hewitt sends 5 specimens of this species , which is 

 much smaller than the 2 described South European species. 



S chiz aspidia trimaculata sp. nov. 

 Basal 4 joints of antennae, the prothorax , the greater part 

 of the mesonotum, a triangulär mark on top of metapleurae, ab- 

 dominal petiole and the legs , pale yellow , the rest of the an- 

 tennae , except the apical Joint (which is rufous) black ; a large 

 broad oval mark in the centre of the mesonotum at the base, 

 a narrower longish oval mark on the sides, opposite the tegulae, 

 a stripe across the base of scutellum , a small triangulär mark 

 at the base of the scutellum in the middle , the sternum. 



