126 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '14 



Lake Ganoga, August 29; Ricketts, August 30 and 31, Septem- 

 ber i and 2, and above Stull, September 3, 1897, also those col- 

 lected at Ricketts June 7 to 9, 1898. The region is in the 

 Canadian life zone, and yielded many new and interesting spe- 

 cies. 



There is another matter connected with labels that is often 

 annoying and misleading. It is the abbreviation of the names 

 of places and towns to suit one's fancy. We are not alone, 

 however, in this matter, for I have specimens from foreign 

 correspondents where the locality label defies interpretation. 

 Specimens with lot numbers should never be sent out by the 

 collector until properly labeled. 



A New Proctotrypoid Genus from Australia (Hym.). 



By ALAN P. DODD, Nelson via Cairns, Queensland. 

 Family SCELIONIDAE, Subfamily TELENOMINAE. 



PLATYTELENOMUS nov. gen. 



? . Body completely flattened. Vertex of head very thin ; 

 head viewed from in front semi-circular; eyes large, slightly 

 pubescent. Antennae slender, n-jointed; the club slender, 5- 

 jointed. Thorax nearly twice as long as wide; pronotum not 

 visible from above, mesonotum as long as wide, without fur- 

 rows ; scutellum short, semi-circular ; postscutellum short ; 

 metanotum rather long, with a median and two lateral lines of 

 foveae separated by delicate carinae ; the median line straight, 

 the lateral ones curved. Venation as in Telenomus Haliday. 

 Abdomen sessile, fusiform, no longer or wider than the thorax ; 

 second segment longer than wide, equal to two-thirds abdomi- 

 nal length. 



This genus comes nearest to Aradophagus Ashmead but dif- 

 fers in having n -jointed antennae. 



Type. \Platytelenomus planus sp. nov. 



Platytelenomus planus sp. nov. 



9. Length, i.io mm. 



Shining black; legs (including coxae) and antennal scape and pedicel 

 golden yellow. 



