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Show 746 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, Antennas, except club, and legs yellow, rarely with a rufous tinge. First joint of funicle twice as long as thick, joints 2 to 5 truncate at apex, not moniliform, joints 6-8 moniliform, the last a little the widest... Marginal vein not or very little longer than thick, scape twice as long as pedicel or only slightly longer; antennae rufo-piceous, the scape and club blackish. First joint of funicle hardly 1^ times as long as thick, the following joints, except the second, moniliform, very slightly and gradually increasing in size; cup of scutellum very small, reduced to a mere carina First joint of funicle a little more than twice as long as thick, joints 2-6 subequal, truncate at apex, narrowed toward base, joints 7-8 moniliform, the last a little the larger; cup of scutellum narrowed, elliptic, with 2 punctures. (1) K L E I D O T O M A ATROCOXALIS, sp. n. 2 . Length 1*5 m m . Polished black; antennae (except funicle, which is more or less reddish or piceous) and legs (except trochanters, tips of femora, and tibiae and tarsi, which are reddish yellow) black ; mandibles large, red. Head viewed from in front oval. Antennae 13-jointed, extending to apex of metathorax; the scape long, clavate, 34 times as long as the pedicel, the latter oval; funicle much slenderer than the pedicel, 8-jointed, the first joint three or more times longer than thick, joints 2-5 subequal, a little longer than thick, joints 6-8 rounded; club abrupt, 3-jointed, stout, the first joint about 1| times as long as thick, the second twice as long as thick, the third ovate, 2| times as long as thick. Thorax subovoid, about three times as long as wide, the collar anteriorly visible from above as a sharp transverse ridge, the mesonotum fully twice as long as wide at base ; the scutellum striated along the sides, behind truncate and with the truncature margined, the cup very small, oval, connected with a carina at the bottom of the basal fovea, its disk with a small fovea behind and two small punctures on the anterior part; metathorax closely punctate, with a median carina. Wings hyaline, rounded at apex, the tegulae piceous, the veins yellowish, the marginal vein (or third branch of the submarginal) hardly longer than thick, the marginal cell open along the fore margin and fully twice as long as wide, the first abscissa of radius a little longer than the second, the latter with a slight appendage extending along the costal margin. Abdomen nearly as long as the head and thorax united, viewed from the side obliquely truncate at apex, above with a slight rim at base but without pubescence, and, except some striae at base, perfectly smooth and polished. Mount Gay Estate. Described from a single specimen. The shape of the wings, colour of legs, and non-pubescent girdle at base of abdomen readily distinguish the species. K. nana, sp. n. K. pygidialis, sp. n. K. bipunctata, sp. n. |