NEW CHALCID PARASITES FROM MALAYA. 167 



Lutheria ajanea sp. nov. 



Geno type. % 



Two and 65 hundredths mm. Blue, the fore wings clear 

 but with a large brown cloud across from distal venation, 

 its distal margin very conical, reaching at its apex, one-third 

 to apex from apex of stigmal; its proximal margin obliqued 

 from the bend of the submarginal vein. Mouth up to an- 

 tennae, pleurum and venter of thorax and legs reddish brown, 

 legs more or less infuscated; antennae brownish red, club 

 black. Thorax above sculptured like the frons. Pronotum 

 distinct, transverse; thorax wide but narrower than abdomen. 

 Dilation of scape moderate. Cheeks as long as the eyes. 

 Pedicel longer than any funicle, not long. 



Singapore, C. F. Baker. 



Cowperia punctata gen. et sp. nov. Encyrtidae. 



Characterized by the mandibles which are acutely 3- 

 dentate, 1 and 3 small, 2 distinctly much longer than either. 

 Marginal punctiform, stigmal and postmarginal long and 

 equal, stigmal curved. Head large round, scrobes distinct, 

 forming a large semicircle, the moderately wide frons not 

 prominent, the head rather coarsely punctate. Scape long, 

 with a slight ventral exfoliation at tip; club conical, its seg- 

 mentation not very distinct, as long as pedicel and funicle 1 

 jointed. Pronotum transverse, scutum wider than long, scutel- 

 lum longer than it, with a delicate median carina. Ovipositor 

 valves extruded a bit, abdomen- flat. Form robust. 



Two and 50 hundredth mm. Blue, the wings lightly 

 browned; antennae save the fuscous funicles 2-6, and' the legs 

 save coxae and femora at over proximal half (in middle legs 

 all of femora save apex and the base of the tibia) reddish 

 brown the club more yellow. Umbilicately punctate, lateral 

 margin of scutellum carinated. Propodeum with a curved 

 carina on each side of meson (rather far laterad). Funicle 1 

 widening kistad, twice longer than wide at apex, twice 4 which 

 is quadrate and nearly as long as 3 or the pedicel, 6 wider 

 than long. Fore wing densely ciliate, the hairless line narrow 

 and obscure, the ciliation running to base from it. 



Singapore, 0. F. Baker. 



Systolomorphella lyra sp. nov. 



Metallic, the fore wings infuscated from bend of sub- 

 marginal to apex of postmarginal and with a narrow curved 

 hyaline cross-stripe from distal third of marginal vein. Tarsi 

 pale yellow, knees, tips of tibiae a bit reddish. Funicle red- 

 dish but basal joints darker. Antennae a bit below eyes. 

 Hind femur, armed with 7-8 moderate teeth, 1 at about middle, 

 the next three or four largest, columnar but not large. Ab- 

 domen 6 distinctly largest, longer than wide, then 7 and 5; 



R. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



