NEW REARED PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA FROM 
THE PHILIPPINES 
By A. B. Gahan 
Of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 
Entomology , Washington, D. C. 
The writer has recently had opportunity to study several 
series of reared parasitic wasps received by the Bureau of En- 
tomology from the Philippine Islands. Six species have been 
found to be new to science and are described in the following 
pages. Because of the definite host records, this material is 
especially interesting and valuable. Two of the new species 
were sent in by Prof. C. F. Baker, while the others were all 
received from Prof. Charles S. Banks, at the time chief of the 
department of entomology of the College of Agriculture, at 
Los Banos. Two new species are said to be parasitic upon 
scale insects, two species were reared from the eggs of a hemip- 
teran, one species is parasitic upon a leaf-mining buprestid, 
and one species issued from cocoons of a gracillarid moth. 
Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 
ENCYRTID^E 
Homalotylus mundus sp. nov. 
Very similar in appearance to H. albitarsis Gahan, but easily 
distinguished by the fact that the vertex is narrower, the legs 
are slightly differently colored, and the ovipositor is distinctly 
longer. 
Female. — Length, 1.5 millimeters. Vertex, frons, and face 
granularly opaque; head behind the eyes faintly lineolate and 
more or less shining; vertex very narrow, at its narrowest 
point less than the length of pedicel; antennal scape long and 
slender; pedicel nearly three times as long as thick and dis- 
tinctly longer than first funicle joint; first funicle joint ap- 
proximately one and one-half times as long as thick, second 
slightly longer than thick; following joints subquadrate; club 
not thicker than the funicle and about as long as three preceding 
funicle joints combined, pointed at apex; pronotum and meso- 
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