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Show 780 MR. W. H. ASHMEAD-REPORT ON THE PARASITIC [Nov. 19, Subfamily TRYPHONINJS. ORTHOCENTRUS, Grav. ORTHOCENTRUS VARIABILIS, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 141. Mount Gay Estate. One female specimen. Subfamily CRYPTIN^:. MESOSTENUS, Grav. MESOSTENUS INSULARIS, Ashm. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. p. 138. Balthazar. One female specimen. HEMITELES, Gravenhorst. HEMITELES MACULITHORAX, sp. n. o*. Length 2*2 mm. Polished black, impunctate, except some fine transverse lines on the middle lobe of mesonotum; mesonotum piceous, with the parapsidal furrows distinct anteriorly, the furrows anteriorly, the margins of the lateral lobes, and a large spot on the middle lobe posteriorly before the scutellum reddish yellow; tegulae yellowish white; hind coxae and first and last abdominal segments black, second abdominal segment yellow, third, fourth, and fifth piceous. Antennae 19-jointed, as long as the body, brownish yellow, but with the three basal joints yellow; first joint of flagellum the longest, the following to the last gradually becoming shorter, the last conical, about twice as long as the penultimate. Metathorax smooth, but distinctly areolated. Wings hyaline, with the venation pale yellowish ; legs brownish yellow, the hind femora dusky at the middle, the hind tibiae with a small spot beyond the base and its apex, dusky. Mount Gay Estate. Described from one male specimen. DIAGLYPTA, Forster. DlAGLYPTA RADIATA, Sp. n. 2 . Length 7 mm.; ovipositor one-third the length of abdomen. Head and thorax black, shining, sparsely covered with a glittering white pubescence; tegulae and palpi yellowish white; two basal joints of antennae, legs, and abdomen rufous. Wings hyaline, the anterior pair with a transverse brown band beyond the basal third and another broader band across the disk, enclosing the stigma and most of the radial cell, leaving only the apical fifth of the wings clear; hind wings with the apical one-fourth brown. Head transverse, much wider than the thorax, with large prominent eyes, which occupy the whole side of the head, slightly convergent above and making the head appear convex before and behind; head before punctate, clothed with a glittering white |