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host relations for the holotype specimens and two paratypes men- 

 tioned are unknown to the writer. A third paratype received direct 

 from Leefmans is said to have been reared from Apanteles, species 

 at Dogatien. This specimen is much smaller than the holotype 

 (length 2.4 mm.) but otherwise identical. 



The following already described species apparently are congeneric 

 with the above and should be transferred to Anastatoidea: 



Metapelma cclumbi Girault, Ius. Ins. Mens., vol. 11, 1923, p. 97. 

 Metapelma longfellowi Girault, Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 11, 1923, p. 99. 

 Metapelma superba Dodd, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Australia, vol. 41, 1917, p. 357. 



The four known species belonging to the genus may be separated 

 by the following key, which in the case of the Girault and Dodd 

 species is based upon the original descriptions: 



KKY TO THE SPEOES OF ANASTATOIDEA GAHAN 



1. 'Scutum with a median ridge from whose sides, like tree branches, silvwy 



hairs proceed. " Ovipositor as long as the body., columbi Girault. 



Median lobe of mesoscutum not as above; ovipositor usually not as long as 

 the body 2. 



2. Ovipositor with a whitish band before apex; forewing with a l^rge bristle at 



the posterior margin half way between base of wing and the beginning of 

 discal ciliation; discal cilia behind marginal vein stout but not scalelike 



longfellowi Girault. 



Ovipositor not banded; forewing without such a bristle; discal cilia behind 



marginal vein scalelike 3. 



3. Lower half of face transversely lineolated; lateral lobes of mesocutum trans- 



versely lineolated; legs deep rufous, lightly washed with metallic especially 



strong on the hind femora; hind coxae purplish __ superba Dodd. 



Lower half of face not transversely Uneolated but finely reticulate-punctate or 

 shagreened; lateral lobes of mesoscutum not transversely lineolated but very 

 finely shagreened; legs mostly very dark brown or black, the anterior and 

 median coxae mostly rufo-testaceous, their femora and tibiae varied 

 with testaceous and the hind femora outwardly toward apex marked with 

 testaceous :. brachartonae, new species. 



Family ENCYRTIDAE 



OOENCYRTL'S LATISCAPIS. new species 



Generically this species seems to agree fully as well with the 

 description of Xesmatia Timberlake as with Ooencyrtus Ashmead. 

 No specimens of the genotype of Xesmatia are available for study, 

 but if, as seems probable, the present species is congeneric with 

 X. fladpes Timberlake, then Xesmatia is, in my opinion, hardly 

 worthy of retention. The principal characters pointed out in the 

 original description of Xesmatia to distinguish the two genera appear 

 to be that in Ooencyrtus the mandibles have an acute ventral tooth 

 and a broadly truncate inner one, and the surface of the body has a 

 shagreened appearance while in Xesmatia the mandibles are said to 

 be three-toothed, the middle tooth the largest, the upper and lower 

 teeth both rather obscure giving the appearance of a broad apex 



