DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR NEW SPECIES IN THE GENUS MESOCOMYS(HYMENOPTERA,EUPELMIDAE)PARASITIZING EGGS OF DEFOLIATORS FROM CHINA

Four new species of genus Mesocomys Cameron are described from China in the present:M.trabalae sp.nov.,M.breviscapis sp.nov.,M.superansi sp.nov.and M.sinensis sp.nov.They are parasitoids of eggs of lepidopterous defoliators.Key to genus Mesocomys in China is made here.Type specimens are deposited in the Insects Museum of Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing.