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PARANAPHOIDEA new genus. 



This genus, captured quite accidentally, appears to me to be 

 quite remarkable in its family, since it bears one or two unique 

 characteristics. The venation is like that of Stethynium, the 

 antennae like those of Anaphoidea but the posterior wings are very 

 broad for the family, neafly like those in the Eulophidse yet 

 distinctly pedicellate at base. The abdomen bears a distinctly 

 exserted ovipositor. This genus, for the present, I consider allied 

 with Anaphoidea. 



Female: Head normal, the lateral ocelli distant from the eyes, the an- 

 tennse inserted about in the middle of the face, 10-jointed, the club obliquely 

 divided, the pedicel as long as any of the funiclar joints which, excepting 

 the small first, are all subequal and oval. Tarsi 4-jointed, the first joint 

 long, the tibial spurs single, those of the cephalic legs, longest, long and very 

 slenderly acute, straight, not forming a strigil. Fore wings shaped as in 

 narrow-winged species of Gonatocerus but nearly truncate at apex, the 

 venation like that in Stethynium, there being a foot-shaped stigmal vein, 

 quite half as long as the marginal; marginal cilia very short. Abdomen as 

 long as the thorax, oval, sessile but the phragma apparently absent; ovi- 

 positor very long, exceedingly fine and slender, inserted at extreme base 

 of abdomen, exserted with 'its valves for a length equal to half that of the 

 abdomen and curved. Posterior wings broad and knife-shaped, bearing 

 about seven lines of sparse discal cilia, the blade over a third the width 

 of the fore wings, before venation with a slender petiole. Parapsidal fur- 

 rows complete; scutellum wider than long; axillae not noticeably advanced, 

 widely separated; pronotum not extending back to the tegulse; meso- 

 postscutellum as long as the scutum. 

 Male: Not known. 



Type: The following new species. 



Paranaphoidea egregia new species. 



Female: Length, 0.70 mm., excluding ovipositor. Black, uniquely 

 marked with golden yellow as follows: The mesopostscutellum golden 

 yellow with the exception of a prominent, long, elliptical black marking on 

 each side of the median line and an oblique dash laterad; caudad, the scu- 

 tum at the caudal margin and mesad with a V-shaped golden yellow mark- 

 ing; the face; on the vertex, a slender line of yellow runs over the cephalic 

 ocellus from eye to eye, laterad widening caudad and cephalad, leaving in 

 the centre of the vertex, two subrectangular areas, before and behind the 

 cephalic ocellus; the margins of the axillse; lateral portions of each parap- 

 side, irregular. Legs golden yellow, the tarsi dusky, also the middle of the 

 caudal femora; antenna? yellow washed with black, the club darker. \Yings 

 hyaline; fore wings bearing about twenty-six lines of discal cilia, the cili:i- 

 tion dense, abruptly disappearing some distance out from the venation. 



