40 NEW GENEKA AND SPECIES OF BRACONIDAE. 



broad and deep crenulate furrow, 3rd and 4th with an edge on 

 the posterior margin smooth and polished, ovipositor as long 

 as the body, the valves black and hairy. Legs moderately 

 slender and hairy. Front wings with moderately wide lan- 

 ceolate stigma, 1st abscissa of the radius one-half the 1st 

 cubital cross-vein, 2nd cubital cell nearly three times as long 

 as wide and with parallel sides, 1st discoidal cell petiolate, 

 nervellus interstitial, the recurrent nervure entering the 1st 

 cubital cell, both the wings amber brown basally, dark fuscous 

 brown apically from the basal nervure with the exception of 

 a hyaline streak extending from the base of the stigma to the 

 middle of the wing. 



The $ is without a conspicuous facial plate and smaller. 



Hob. Amboina. Collected by F. Muir. Described 

 from 4 $ $ and 1 $ specimens. 



Sub-fam. DORYCTINAE. 



Pedinotus javanus, n. sp. 



$ 4.5 mms. long. Black, the antennal scape and pedicel, 

 base of mandibles and the legs excepting the mid and hind 

 femora outwardly, the front tibiae basally, mid and hind 

 tibiae medially and the hind tarsi, ochraceous, the palpi, 

 tegulae, mid and hind tibiae basally pallid; rugulose and hairy, 

 head with frontovertex smooth and polished and naked, median 

 lobe of mesonotum, propodeum and basal abdominal segment 

 particularly coarsely reticulately sculptured. 



Head quadrate, very convex, the temples full, front ex- 

 cavated, ocelli at posterior margin arranged in an equilateral 

 triangle, the members about 2 diameters apart, about 4 from 

 the border of eye and fully 6 from the occipital margin; an- 

 tennae on the anterior margin, the sockets slightly elevated, 

 separated from the border of eye by only half as much as from 

 each other, filiform multiartieulate, as long as the body, 1st 

 and 2nd joints stout, anterior angles of clypeus foveate ; man- 

 dibles short, stout and sharply pointed; cheeks only half as 

 wide as postgenae, which are punctate. Prosternum in ad- 

 vance of pronotum, which is fairly wide, widening on the 

 pleurae and concave medially; the mesonotum, scutellum and 

 metanotum are flat, lying all in the same plane, the median 

 lobe of mesonotum depressed in front, parapsidal grooves con- 

 fluent, more or less effaced above, scutellum smooth and 

 polished, very finely punctate, two large, shallow foveae basal- 

 ly, postscutellum with a circular carina medially froming a 

 fairly deep fovea at apex of scutellum, which is hairy, three 

 indistinct short longitudinal carinae on metanotum, the pleurae 

 convex; abdomen slender, as long as head and thorax together, 

 depressed in front, corbiculate apically, 1st segment 3 times as 

 long as wide at apex, 2nd and 3rd solidly joined, together 

 almost as long as 1st, the brown, double curved punctate 



Jour. Straits Branch 



