1. Odonteucoila floccosa Yoshimoto, n. sp. (fig

. 2).

Female: Fuscous; antennal segments 1 and 2 and legs testaceous; abdomen brown; rim of scutellar cup blackish.

Front view of head as in figure 2, c; malar space equal to one-third height of eye; hairs on frons evenly spaced, forming a column at each side extending from base of antennal fossa to posterior margin of clypeus; clypeus with one long hair at postero-lateral margin and shorter ones mesad along anterior margin; mandible with few long hairs. Antennal segment 2 as long as broad, shorter than 1; segment 3 longer than 2; 4 to 6 each twice as long as broad and subequal in length to one another. Segments of club all elliptical and striate. Pronotal plate with a deep transverse groove at middle; posterior plate subrectangular, rounded at angles. Posterior pronotal margin with a row of evenly spaced hairs. Mesonotum with a single series of hairs along anterior and lateral borders and with a pair of hairs at disc. Lateral bar apically acuminate and reaching anterior portion of cup. Propodeum with two parallel, highly raised lines; lateral areas of raised lines covered with woolly hairs. Abdomen 1.7 times as long as broad; tergites 2 to 4 visible for onefourth distance. Length 1.3 mm.; forewing 1.3 mm.

Male: Unknown.

Holotype, female (US 66360), Awakpa District, Ponape, in banyan log, Mar. 2, 1948, Dybas .

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Caroline Is. (Ponape).