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ticulate, posteriorly thc reticulation becomes more proiiounccd and 

 finer and the ridges form stellate figures at the base of the spatu- 

 late hairs. Posterior spiracles large and surrou nded by very long 

 hairs. Ovipositor two-fifths the length of abdómen, extreme base 

 brown, the remainder yellowish white tinged with brown near tip. 

 One female. 



Parasite of an unknown fly which produces galls in the branches 

 oí the Combretum olivacenm Engl. Cfr. Tavares, 1. c, no. 13, Ta- 

 bula xiii, fig. 7. 



16. Pediobius pellucidulus new species, Crosby. 



Female. — Length, 1.7 to 1.9 mm.; abdómen, 0. 9 mm. Head 

 and thorax blue-green ; abdómen brownish with purplish and 

 greenish reflections. 



Head seen from above transverse, twice as wide as long, straight 

 in front, concave behind ; seen from in front three fourths as high 

 as wide ; eyes nearer each other at lower angle than above, inner 

 margin slightly concave ; antennae inserted as far from each other 

 as from eye-margin, separated by a rounded longitudinal eleva- 

 tion ; the grooves deep and meeting on the middle of the face 

 where they appear to cross and each is continued by a light-col- 

 ored suture which almost meets the eye-margin on a levei with the 

 front ocellus. Eyes ovate ; the facets of the eyes are of two sizes, 

 larger below, smaller above. Sculpture of face and vertex a fine 

 but distinct reticulation, below the antennae shtngled. 



Thorax seen from the side quite strongly arched, flat above,. 

 declivous in front and behind; prothorax very short and extending 

 upward only about half way to the apex of the cephalic aspect of 

 the thorax ; mesonotum very strongly convex ; parapsidal furrows 

 only slightly indicated anteriorly ; scutellum strongly convex and 

 evenly rounded behind ; mesonotum and scutellum finely but dis- 

 tinctly reticulate ; propodeum provided with a median longitudinal 

 carina which unites behind with the marginal ridge bordering the 

 insertion of the petiole ; spiracular sulci present ; lateral folds ab- 

 sent; sculpture of propodeum a very delicate wrinkling. 



Antennae brownish yellow, inserted below the middle of the 

 face, just above the levei of the base of the eyes ; scape strongly 



