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scutum scaly punctate, slightly shining; axillae and scutellum 
granularly opaque ; propodeum very faintly shagreened and 
shining; mesopleura lineolate-reticulate, subopaque; legs long, 
the posterior femora and tibiae strongly compressed ; middle tibial 
spur slender and somewhat longer than metatarsus; abdomen 
shorter than thorax and slightly narrower, rather strongly 
sculptured dorsally; ovipositor exserted about half the length 
of abdomen. Head, prothorax beneath, axillae, and scutellum 
pale orange yellow ; pronotum dorsally, mesoscutum, metathorax, 
propodeum, and abdomen brownish black, the propodeum and 
abdomen tinged with bluish; antennal scape, pedicel, and first 
three funicle joints blackish; funicle joints beyond the third, 
and the club white ; tegulae whitish basally, apical half brownish ; 
prefectus mostly pallid; forewings subhyaline at base and apex 
with a broad fuscous cloud across the middle, and with a dis- 
tinct narrow hairless line from the base of stigmal vein nearly 
to the posterior margin of wing; mesopleura, all coxfe, posterior 
femora above, and hind tibiae dark brown or blackish; anterior 
and median femora and tibiae, and a marginal stripe on posterior 
femora beneath pale testaceous; all tarsi pallid. 
Male. — Agrees in every way with the description of the fe- 
male. 
Type locality. — Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos. 
Type. — Catalogue No. 22344, United States National Museum. 
Host. — Pseudococcus virgatus Cockerell. 
Described from 15 specimens, 8 females and 7 males, received 
from Prof. C. F. Baker, by whom they were reared from the 
above-named coccid. 
The color of this species is somewhat variable. The antennse 
are not infrequently entirely white beyond the first funicle joint; 
legs are frequently stained with brownish, and the mesopleura 
vary from about the color of the mesoscutellum to nearly black. 
Taftia saissetiss sp. nov. 
This species is extremely close to T. prodenise Ashmead, but 
is somewhat darker in color and differs also by having the fu- 
nicle joints of the female antennse distinctly compressed, those 
beyond the first obliquely truncate at apex and dorsally over- 
lapping the base of the following joint; joints 3 to 6 of the 
funicle, viewed laterally, all distinctly broader than long and 
successively broader toward the club, the sixth twice as broad 
as long. In prodenise the funicle joints are more nearly cylin- 
drical and all except the last are slightly longer than broad 
with the apical truncation squarely transverse. The males can 
