INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 107 



with median carina only, abdomen 2 longest. All metallic save 

 club, legs 1 beneath and tibia, knee 2, tibiae 3 at base and tarsi 

 1-2. Fore wing trifasciate, 1 narrow, with long bristles at base, 

 2 from whole of marginal, 3 narrowest, the apical margin. 

 Resembles somewhat Brotolepsiella. 

 Forest, Watsonville, March. 



Chalcis ogyrisidis, new species. 



Black, wings clear, coxa 3 save at base above (sometimes 

 basal half), femur 3 and last joint of tarsi 2 and 3, dark red. 

 Umbilicately punctate, plate of scutellum incised at meson; 

 scrobicular cavity cross-striate. Lateral ocellus its diameter 

 from the eye. Funicles 1-3 a half longer than wide, rest 

 shortening. Propodeum rugulose. Segments of abdomen with 

 cross-row of microscopic punctures at apex preceded by one or 

 two rows of pin-punctures but 2 with the latter only, an area 

 near apex dorso-laterad, 3 with the rows running dorso-mesad,, 

 absent at meson, 7 punctate. Femur 3 with seven teeth, 1 

 widest, 3 and 4 of others, longest. Tegulae except at base, 

 margined with whitish. 



A pair and another female, from pupae of Ogyris amarylUs, 

 Brisbane, 1919 (H. Hacker). 



Pirenoidea, new genus. 



Like Cryptomphale but postmarginal absent, mandibles ap- 

 parently absent, parapsidal furrows apparently complete, no 

 ring-joint, fringes half wing-length. Scape distinctly widened, 

 flagellum short-clavate, pedicel elongate, over twice longer than 

 wide, exceeding funicle; joints of latter, 1 twice, 2 nearly thrice 

 wider than long, large ; club unarmed, ovate, widest. Stigmal 

 long, marginal exceeding submarginal. Setae from marginal 

 elongate. Scape equal flagellum. 



Pirenoidea dei, new species. 



Black ; wing with a light dusky cross-stripe from whole of 

 marginal ; tarsi and tibia 1 more or less pale. No long hairs 

 from flagellum. Resembles Pirene, and was mistaken for it. 



