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shallow depression more than one-half its width extending from 

 occiput to mouth. Antennse small, inserted nearer to lateral 

 margins of head than to each other, 4- jointed, the scape swollen, 

 the second joint two-thirds of third, the fourth about one-half 

 the length of second and not wider than third. Mandibles very 

 large, their bases reaching sides of head, tridentate. Prothorax 

 three-fourths the length of head, subtrapezoidal, slightly broader 

 than head posteriorly, and slightly narrower anteriorly, the 

 upper surface of all thoracic segments with a more or less 

 distinct continuation of the median cephalic depression. The 

 prothorax is, as usual, deeper than either meso- or metathorax. 

 Meso- and metanotum subrectangular, the former divided by 

 a transverse suture, nearly 0.6 mm. long, the latter, 0.5 mm. 

 long. Legs all very similar in structure and armature, the 

 posterior longest, the tibiae along anterior and apical portions 

 armed with some 20 to 30 short stout teeth which are thickly 



Fig. 4. Showing the very peculiar pustular organs in the clavate tip of the stigrmal vein in 

 the female wing; A, Sycophaga nota; B, Sycoryctes pkilippinensis ; C, Agaonella 

 larvalls; D, Blastophaga nota; E, Philotrypesis similis; F, P. coUaris; G, P. 

 ashmeadii. 



set. Metatarsi as long as all remaining tarsal joints together, 

 the fifth one-half of the first; the second, third, and fourth 

 very small, subequal, and together about equal to one-half the 

 fifth. Head and thorax smooth and naked, but abdomen min- 

 utely thickly longitudinally striolate, about 1.2 mm. long, about 

 0.3 mm. wide at base and 0.5 mm. at apex, the apical angles 

 provided with 2 narrowly lanceolate laminse, about 1.4 mm. 

 long, which are very thickly and finely pilose throughout; these 

 laminae at base form a partial funnel surrounding the last, and 

 apparently only, abdominal spiracle, which is very large; these 

 terminal spiracles connect with 2 enormous tracheal trunks 

 which are somewhat bent and coiled posteriorly, are together 

 more than one-half the width of the abdomen anteriorly, and 

 occupy a large part of its cavity; these great tracheal trunks 

 pass forward, occupying nearly the entire body cavity, connect 

 with the metathoracic and mesothoracic spiracles, have one con- 



