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scribed species of the genus Cercocephala except elegans by having 

 a tuft of dark hairs on the stigmated spot on the submarginal 

 vein, and from C. (Chsetospila) elegans West wood in having 6 

 joints in the funicle. 



ELASMIDjE 

 Elasmus elegans sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 2.25 mm. Head and thorax blue- 

 green ; abdomen elongate, somewhat longer than head and thorax 

 combined, brown, with the basal third both above and below 

 reddish, and with the extreme base above green ; face with large, 

 scattered punctures, those laterad of the antennal fossa arranged 

 in 2 vertical rows; antennae long, scape whitish, rest of an- 

 tennas brown, segments of funicle almost subequal in length, 

 the first indistinctly longer than the pedicel, the last fully twice 

 as long as widest diameter, and about two-thirds as long as 

 club ; mesoscutum rather closely punctured, each puncture having 

 a dark-colored hair; scutellum finely and indistinctly reticu- 

 lated; metanotum yellow, with a hyaline border; wings slightly 

 dusky; hairs on legs black; fore legs, including coxa?, whitish, 

 the coxae beneath with 4 long setae; tibiae with longitudinal 

 rows of hairs ; mid coxae and femora, except their apices, black ; 

 rest of mid legs whitish, the tibiae and basal joints of tarsi with 

 longitudinal rows of hairs; basal half of hind coxae and apical 

 half of hind femora almost black, rest of hind legs whitish; the 

 tibiae behind with rows of hairs arranged in diamond-shaped 

 figures; basal joints of hind tarsi with longitudinal rows of 

 hairs. 



Male. — Unknown. 



LUZON, Laguna, Los Baiios (C. F. Baker). Type No. 18408, 

 United States National Museum. 



This species resembles E. philippinensis Ashmead, but that 

 species is much smaller, has the joints of the funicle much 

 shorter, the hind coxae except extreme apices dark, the hind 

 femora entirely dark, etc. 



Elasmus lutens sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, about 2.25 mm. Yellow; ocellar triangle, 

 a large triangular spot on rear of head extending from top of 

 eyes almost to their bases and connected along carinate edge 

 of occiput with ocellar spot, the axillae, a small spot on side 

 of propodeum, a large spot covering the upper part of hind 

 coxae, spots on the sides of abdominal segments at apices, all 

 brown; toward apex of abdomen the spots become larger so 



