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impressions at lateral bases of third and fourth segments; the 

 impressions on first and second segments are centrally, minutely 

 carinate, and those on second, third, and fourth are minutely, 

 irregularly rugose within; remainder of surface of all tergites 

 smooth and shining ; first suture normal ; second suture medially, 

 deeply impressed and crenulate obsolete at sides; a crenulate 

 transverse groove occurs some distance behind the normal third 

 suture ; fourth suture impressed and crenulate. Hind tibise with 

 two stout, straight, pubescent spines, the inner a little the longer. 



Wing surface very uneven by reason of several sharp folds 

 in its membrane, one passing through median cell into second 

 discoidal and another thence along cubitus. Stigma very large, 

 broad, broadly rounded below, four times as long as wide, the 

 radius inserted nearly at center. First abscissa of radius a 

 little less than half the length of second; second cubital cell 

 nearly three times as long as wide, a little narrowed apically, 

 the first transverse cubital vein straight and very oblique, the 

 second vertical and decolored ; recurrent vein inserted near apex 

 of first cubital cell, the intervening vein decolored ; first abscissa 

 of cubitus very strongly upcurved, making the first cubital cell 

 very narrow. The transverse median vein is very oblique and 

 is carried proximad to a distance before the basal vein equal to 

 the apical width of median cell, the intervening portion of me- 

 dian vein and the postmedian vein greatly enlarged, the latter 

 strongly curved ; the second discoidal cell is thus of unusual size, 

 twice as long as wide, long oval in outline, and broadly rounded 

 apically; the parallel vein is interstitial, the juncture of the 

 veins being greatly enlarged; the posterior vein, also, is un- 

 usually heavy. 



Length, 7 millimeters. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling {Baker). 



This new species differs from Aphrastobracon flavipennis 

 Ashmead in the greater size, scape two times as long as wide 

 (three times in flavipennis) ; flagellar joints longer than wide 

 ("wider than long" in flavipennis) ; face more coarsely sculp- 

 tured ("finely shagreened" in flavipennis) ; and wings black- 

 spotted at middle of fore margin (not so in flavipennis) . Doubt- 

 less more fundamentally important differences will be recognized 

 when A. flavipennis shall have been properly described. 



