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these striae curving backwards on the lateral lobes; scutellum 
flat, the postscutellum concave with raised lateral and posterior 
margin, almost contiguous with the tubercle upon which the 
abdomen arises. Thorax in lateral view slightly higher than 
long, the propodeum almost vertical behind. Propleura smooth 
except for a few short coarse horizontal striae centrally, below, and 
along the posterior margin; mesopleura punctulate, but smooth 
and polished behind; metapleura [smooth and polished; propo- 
deum reticulate, more coarsely so medially in front, with a dis- 
tinct transverse carina just behind the middle (obliterated in 
some specimens). Abdomen three times as long as the thorax; 
petiole smooth, as long as the three following segments together, 
the spiracle at the middle; second to sixth of about equal length, 
the whole abdomen formed as in Gasteruption; polished basally 
and subopaque beyond. Hind coxae striate above, smooth below; 
femora slender, the tibiae constricted at base, but not greatly 
swollen apically, not broader than the femora; hairy, but without 
any short stiff spinules; longer tibial spur a little more than half 
the length of the metatarsus, the latter at least four times as long 
as thick and as long as the following joints together; claws long, 
slender, simple. Wings with the basal nervure arising consider- 
ably to the base of the stigma; cubitus arising just behind the 
middle of the basal; first section of radial vein two-fifths as long 
as the second which is reduced in thickness on its apical half; 
recurrent nervure entering the first cubital cell just beyond the 
basal third; anterior discoidal cell more than twice as long as the 
posterior one which is open behind; nervulus interstitial. Hind 
wing with three frenulum hooks. 
Six males from Fiji (W. M. Mann). One specimen is from 
Navai and all the others from Nadarivatu. Turner records Cuvu. 
Turner ( loc . cit ) has placed this species in Hyptiogaster and 
compared it with H. darwinii Westw. If Kieffer’s genus Hemi 
feenus is distinct, it seems to me that the Fijian form must be 
placed there on account of the very short thorax. H. darwinii 
was unknown in nature to both Schletterer and Kieffer, and the 
latter author (Das Tierreich, Lief. 30, p. 212) refers it to Pseudo- 
