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post-marginal vein short but longer than the stigmal. Antennae 13-jointed, 

 with one ring-joint which is distinct; funiclar joints shortening distad, the 

 distal two distinctly wider than long, the first two subequal, a fourth longer 

 than wide, each slightly longer than the pedicel; joint 3 quadrate; joints 

 4 and 5 subequal, slightly wider than long, while joints 6 and 7 are sub- 

 equal, each slightly shorter than joint 5; club long, ovate, much wider than 

 the funicle, its three joints subequal in length and as long as the proximal 

 joint of the funicle. Mandibles dentate. 



From many specimens, f-inch objective, 1-inch, optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb. 



Male: The same but the funiclar joints are all distinctly longer, the club 

 shorter, not wider, or scarcely, than the funicle, its distal joint short; 

 antenna lighter distad and the abdomen differs as it should for this sex in 

 this genus. The proximal funiclar joint is nearly twice longer than wide, 

 longer than the second joint and none of the joints of the funicle are wider 

 than long. 



From many specimens, the same magnification. 



Described from twenty-seven pairs reared at the same time from 

 two common large mantid egg masses taken from trees in a forest 

 near Nelson, N. Q., June 25, 1912. The young mantids and the 

 parasites issued on July 4. The hosts were of the same species 

 and the egg masses were of the usual form. 



Habitat: Australia, Nelson near Cairns, North Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy. 1170, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two males, 

 two females, on cardpoints, four pins. Cotypes C&t. No. 15361, 

 United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., two pairs 

 on cardpoints. 



This species is allied to olenus Walker but has a lateral carina 

 on the propodeum and the median carina is divided at the imme- 

 diate base of the segment. 1 



GENUS ASAPHES Walker. 

 Asaphes americana, new species. 



Female: Length, 2.00 mm. Dark metallic green, the coxa) concolorous, 

 tjie legs yellow, pallid yellow at the tarsi; wings hyaline; antenna) black; 



1 The following notes comparing this species with P. olcim* Walker are 

 added at the request of the author. The cotypes sent were shipped in a 

 vial together with a ball of cotton, just the size to roll back and forth in 

 the vial so that the specimens were almost completely dismembered when 

 they arrived. 



In P. olenus Walker the antennae are rufous with the pedicel much longer 

 than the first joint of the funicle, there are usually six teeth (counting the 

 apical one which is bidentate at apex, as two) on the hind femora and all 

 about equal in size (in beneficium some of the medial teeth are much smaller 

 than the rest); front and middle legs brown with no greenish tinge. 



In the male cotypes sent the hind femora have only three teeth larger 

 than in the female and so in this respect are not similar to the female. 



J. C. CRAWFORD. 



