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and axillae faintly reticulated and without vestiture except for the usual paired bristles 

 on scutellum; postscutelluni triangular; propodeum practically smooth; abdomen smooth, 

 and a little longer than head and thorax; pleura except the mesepimeron finely striated, 

 the hind coxae and femora outwardly similarly but a little more distinctly lineated. 



Blacl< with a faint metallic lustre; postscutellum white at base, translucent at apex; 

 tegulae whitish basally, brownish apically; antennal flagellum pale brownish; scape and 

 pedicel pale yellowish; front legs except base of coxae, middle and hind trochanters, 

 tibiae and tarsi grayish white, the hairs on legs blacK; wings hyaline; abdomen blackish 

 with the venter except apically, the apex of first dorsal segment and more or less of 

 the second dorsal segment yellowish. Male unknown, 



T y p e 1 o c a 1 i t y. ~ Buitenzorg, Java. 



Type. Cat. No. 24654, U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Host. — Erionota thrax Linné. 



Described from three female specimens received November 27, 101 Q, 

 from S. LEEf^MANS under his No. 306, and said to be parasitic upon larvae 

 of the above named Hesperid. 



Antenna of type mounted on a slide; other material on card points. 



Family Encyrtidac. 



Schcdius podontiae,' new species. 



Distinguished from kuvanae Howard, by the slightly narrower and more weakly 

 sculptured frons and vertex and by the paler antennae and legs. 



Female. — Length 0.8 mm. Fronto-vertex at its narrowest part which is opposite 

 the ocelli, about one-third as broad as long, the vertex rather strongly punctate and 

 subopaque, the frons more weakly sculptured, reticulate and distinctly shining; antennal 

 scape slightly expanded beneath at the middle; pedicel twice as long as broad and 

 a little longer than the two basal joints of funicle combined; first, second, and third 

 funicle joints subequal and each barely longer than broad; fourth funicle joint a little 

 longer than broad, the fifth and sixth subquadrate; club as long as the four preceding 

 funicle joints combined, distinctly 3-jointed, the joints subequal; mandibles bidentate, 

 the ventral tooth acute, the inner tooth broad with its apical margin distinctly though 

 not deeply emarginate, its upper and lower angles prominent so that the mandibles 

 might be said to be tridentate; mesoscutum and axillae faintly reticulate, shining; the 

 axillae meeting at the middle but the points of union in some instances covered 

 by the overlapping posterior margin of the mesoscutum, the question of whether 

 the axillae are separated or not depending upon the position in which the specimen 

 died; scuttellum broader than long, with fine close punctation over the whole surface, 

 opaque; abdomen subtriangular not longer than the/thorax, depressed above; margin- 

 al vein, punctiform, barely longer than broad, shorter than the stigmal, postmarginal 

 spur-like. 



Black, with a faint metallic sheen on the frons, mesoscutum, and base of abdo- 

 men; scape except its extreme apex black; base of pedicel brownish; apex of scape, 

 apex of pedicel and remainder of antennae pale; all coxae and femora black, the 

 trochanters, base and apex of all femora and all tibiae and tarsi pale yellowish 

 wings hyaline. 



Male unknown. 



Type locality. — Cultuurtuin, Buitenzorg, Java. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24655 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



H s t. — Podontia a ff uns Grond. 



