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narrow band at extreme base of hind tibiae and all tarsi white; the 

 apical joint of all tarsi dark; wings entirely hyaline, the venation 

 pale. 



Type locality. — Macon, Georgia. 



Type.—Csit. No. 29442, U.S.N.M. 



Type female reared from Laspeyresia molesta Busck, August 1, 1924, 

 by Koy Rogers and sent to the Bureau of Entomology for identifi- 

 cation by J. D. More. A paratype female and three males, includ- 

 ing the allotype received from H. K. Plank under Quaintance No. 

 24035 and said to have been parasitic upon a leaf skeletonizer at New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, reared July 13, 1923. A third female paratype, 

 which is without the head, is from Victoria, Texas, collected by J. D. 

 Mitchell in Spanish moss, March 30, 1908. 



ANASTATOIDEA, new genus 



Intermediate between Metapelma Westwood and Anastatus Mot- 

 schulsky, but may be distinguished from Metapelma by the distinctly 

 impressed, more or less semicircular and delicately margined scrobes; 

 separated axillae; shorter postmarginal vein; truncate apex of abdo- 

 men; shorter middle tibial spur; and the compressed and expanded 

 apical joint of maxillary palpus. Distinguished from Anastatus by 

 the strongly exserted ovipositor; the compressed hind tibiae and 

 basitarsus which are very similar to those of Metapelma; the hairy 

 eyes and the absence of a transverse hyaline band on the forewing. 



Female. — Similar in habitus to Anastatus. Head viewed from in 

 front about as broad as high; scrobes distinctly but not deeply im- 

 pressed, rounded above and margined by a delicate but distinct 

 carina; antennae 13-jointed, inserted near mouth, rather long, and 

 not strongly clavate; scape cylindrical, moderately long and slightly 

 curved; club not large, its apex slightly obliquely truncate; eyes 

 large and distinctly hairy; vertex rather narrow; lateral ocelli close 

 to the eye-margins; front ocellus far above the scrobes; maxillary 

 palpi 4-jointed, the apical joint broad and compressed; labial palpi 

 3-jointed, the apical joint thickened; head viewed from above strongly 

 transverse; thorax ovate, robust; prothorax sub triangular; mesoscu- 

 tum depressed medially, the lateral lobes prominent, the median lobe 

 moderately convex; axillae distinctly separated by base of scutellum; 

 propodeum short; wings hyaline and bare at base, fuscous and 

 densely cihated beyond apex of submarginal vein; postmarginal 

 vein much shorter than marginal, stigmal shorter than postmarginal; 

 front femora not greatly swollen; middle tibial spur not as long as 

 basitarsus, the latter with a double row of strong spines beneath; 

 hind tibiae bicalcarate, compressed into a moderately narrow flange 

 behind, the flange extending from very near base to apex of tibiae 

 and bordered with white^hind basitarsus compressed into a narrow 



