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long apical spines, and 2 short stout dark brown subrectangular 

 claspers, each armed on its distal border with 2 short, stout, 

 black teeth. Length, about 2.5 mm. 



Female. — Metallic dark greenish in color, the wings iridescent, 

 the legs pale yellow, the abdomen slender at base and strikingly- 

 waspish in shape, the ovipositor about twice the length of the 

 body which is 2.5 to 3 mm. long. Head, 0.5 mm. wide, 0.35 

 mm. long, the eyes very strongly bulging, the face broadly 

 rounded in front, the upper surface with a broad deep cavity 

 that broadens caudad; antennae inserted in small sockets which 

 are in the middle of the face, and distant their width from 

 each other, and as far from eyes as from anterior margin of 

 head. Scape yellowish, long and very slender, its length 9 

 times the width, and equal to more than pedicel and first 4 

 joints of flagellum together; pedicel about one-fifth the length 

 of scape and with the rest of the antenna, fuliginous; 2 small 

 ring-joints; flagellum 8-jointed, the joints similar and with 

 numerous very long sense furrows. Mandible small and uni- 

 dentate. Labial palpi 2- jointed, the second one-fourth longer 

 than first; maxillary palpi 4-jointed, the second and fourth 

 the longest and subequal, the third distinctly shorter than the 

 first. Thorax above with shining, but coarsely shagreened sur- 

 face. Scutel very large, subelliptical. Abdomen waspish, very 

 slender at base, in all of the specimens at hand with the ventral 

 plates bent far forward, giving a most remarkable appearance 

 to the whole. Ovipositor about twice the length of the body, 

 sparsely haired and not at all swollen at the tips of the sheaths. 

 The femora longer than tibiae, the fore metatarsal joint as 

 long as 2 succeeding joints, the mid and hind metatarsi longer 

 than all succeeding joints together. The wings sparsely haired. 



Common in Ficus nota at Los Banos, P. I.; probably a guest in 

 its relation to the blastophaga. 



Subfamily SYCOPHAGIN^E 



Sycophaga nota sp. nov. 



Male. — Slender, pale yellowish brown, the abdomen concol- 

 orous, not recurved under thorax, broadened to the apex where 

 it is furnished with 2 long, slender, lanceolate, thickly and 

 finely pilose laminae connected with the last, and only, abdom- 

 inal spiracles. Head, 0.38 mm. wide by 0.8 mm. long, and aver- 

 aging 0.14 mm. more or less deep throughout; rectangular, 

 parallel sided, the occipital angles strongly produced caudad, 

 the median ocellus on occipital border and directed forward, 

 the lateral ocelli wanting. Upper surface of head with a broad 



