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Show 748 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, Thorax subovoid, the mesonotum only about 1|- times as long as wide at base; cup of scutellum oval, connected with a carina at bottom of fovea, its disk posteriorly with a single fovea. Wings hyaline, cordate; the veins dark brown or piceous, the marginal vein fully thrice as long as thick or a little longer, the second abscissa of radius stouter and longer than tbe first, the marginal cell open along the fore border and scarcely 1\ times as long as wide. Abdomen about as long as the thorax or a little longer, with a distinct woolly girdle at base. Balthazar. Described from 7 female specimens. (5) KLEIDOTOMA NANA, sp. n. 2 . Length 0-6 to 0*8 m m . Polished black ; antennae, except club, and legs yellow, rarely with a reddish tinge ; mandibles rufous. Antennae 13-jointed, reaching to base of abdomen, the scape not or scarcely longer than the pedicel; funicle 8-jointed, the first joint only twice as long as thick, joints 2-5 not longer than thick, truncate at apex, not moniliform, joints 6-8 moniliform, the last widest; club 3-jointed, the first and second subequal, about 1| times as long as thick, the last ovate, a little longer. Thorax, wings, and abdomen as in preceding species (K. marginalis). d • Length 0*65 m m . Agrees with female, except the antennae are 15-jointed, filiform, brown or brownish yellow, more or less dusky toward apex, the first joint of the flagellum being not quite twice as long as the second, the second only slightly shorter than the third, the fourth and following are equal, about three times as long as thick, while the wings are entire at apex ; otherwise in venation and colour of legs it agrees with the female. Balthazar. Described from 9 female and 3 male specimens. (6) KLEIDOTOMA PYGIDIALIS, sp. n. 2 • Length 0-75 m m . Polished black; antennae, except club, rufo-piceous ; legs reddish yellow, the coxae paler or yellowish ; mandibles red. Antennae 13-jointed, not longer than the head and thorax united, the scape hardly twice as long as the pedicel, much narrowed at base; funicle 8-jointed, the first joint obconical, about 1\ times as long as thick, the second obconical, only a little longer than wide ; the following joints moniliform, very slightly and gradually increasing in size; cup of scutellum very small, reduced to a mere carina. AVings hyaline; the veins yellowish, the marginal vein quadrate, the first abscissa of radius a little longer than the second, the marginal cell only a little longer than wide, open along the front margin. Abdomen a little longer than the head and thorax united, black, with a griseous woolly girdle at base and with a prominent, ploughshare-shaped brown ventral valve. Balthazar. Described from one female specimen. (7) KLEIDOTOMA BIPUNCTATA, sp. n. $ . Length 1 to 1*1 m m . Polished black; antenna? piceous |