Indian Museum Notes > [Vol. V. 



2.— DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW PARASITIC HYMEN- 

 OPTERA FROM INDIA. 



By William H. Ashmead, M.A., 



Assistant Curator, 



United States National Museum. 



The following three species of parasitic Hymenoptera were 

 received by Dr. L. O. Howard, Entomologist cf the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, from (the late) Mr. Lionel de Nic6ville, 

 Entomologist to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



FAMILY, Bethylidce. 



{Vide Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 178 and 181.) 



1, Goniozus indicus, sp. nov. 



9 . — Length 2*5 to 3 mm. Black and shining, the head with 

 some small, sparse, scattered punctures, the pronotum very delicately 

 and microscopically shagr.eened, the parapsidal furrows not indi- 

 cated, the metathorax feebly reticulate with irregular microscopic 

 lines at the sides, the antennae and the legs, except the coxae, 

 anterior femora above and the middle and hind femora except at 

 tips, honey-yellow, the anterior femora above and the middle and 

 hind femora being embrowned or black ; the extreme apex of the 

 dorsal abdominal segments 2 to 4 are usually more or less jointly 

 testaceous, while the wings are hyaline, the veins more or less 

 yellowish, the stigma and parastigma being brown. 



Type.— Cat. No. 6140, U. S. N. M. 



HOST. — Lepid., larva of Scirpophaga auriflua, a Crambid sugar- 

 cane borer. 



Described from several specimens bred by Mr. de Nicevelle. 

 This species comes very close to G. tibialis, Voll., the only other 

 described Asiatic species, but it is easily distinguished from it by 

 the colour of the antennae and legs, the absence of parapsidal furrows 

 and by its sculpture. 



2- Apanteles scirpopJiagae, sp. nov. 

 <$.«— Length ro. mm. Black and shining, pubescent, the meso- 

 notum with some sparse punctures, the scutellum with a crenate 



