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the latter, although said to have been founded on a female, is believed 

 to be based on a male. The author of the genus ^ writes that Solin- 

 dinelleus is "like Neanastatus, excluding the shape of the abdomen." 

 His description of the abdomen of S. pulcTiricorpus strongly suggests 

 a male and agrees in every particular with males received from 

 India, where they were associated with galls, as was the genotype 

 specimen. Associated with the male from India are females which 

 imdoubtedly belong to Neanastatus. 



(SOLINDINELLEUS) NEANASTATUS PULCHRICORPUS (GIrault). 



Two males and three females of what are believed to be this species 

 are labeled: ''Coimbatore, South India. From gall. T. V. R., col- 

 lector. June 18-25, 1913." As stated above the description of 

 the species is said to have been based on a female, while this deter- 

 mination is based on the belief that the description is of a male. 

 Until the sex of the type is definitely determined, therefore, this 

 determination will of necessity remain doubtful. 



NEANASTATUS TROCHANTERICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3.5 mm. Vertex and frons opaque, with close 

 shallow thimble-like pimctures; face below antennae and cheeks 

 finely lineolated; antenna slender, the club thickened; scape equal 

 in length to the pedicel, ring joint, and first funicle joint combined; 

 pedicel obconic, about twice as long as thick at apex; ring joint 

 strongly transverse; first funicle joint two- thirds the length of scape, 

 second funicle joint one-half as long as scape, third nearly four- 

 fifths the length of second, fourth slightly more than half as long as 

 the second, fifth very slightly less than half as long as the second, 

 and about one-fifth longer than thick; club a little longer than funicle 

 joints four and five combined, 2-jointed, obliquely truncate, the api- 

 cal joint much longer than the basal one; pronotum conically pro- 

 duced, as long as the mesoscutum and with faint scalelike sculpture; 

 mesoscutiun, tegulae, and scutellum sculptured like the pronotum, 

 the mesoscutum depressed down the middle, and the scutellimi with 

 a deep median groove; sides of pronotum and mesopleura finely 

 lineolate-reticulate; the posterior half of mesopleura very finely 

 longitudinally striate; forewing long and rather narrow, strongly in- 

 fuscated from a short distance proximad of the stigmal vein out- 

 wardly to the apex, the apex somewhat lighter, rest of the wing 

 hyaline; postmarginal vein at least four or five times as long as stig- 

 mal; legs long and slender, the middle pair especially long, as long 

 as the whole insect or very nearly; the median trochanter with a 

 short but distinct spinelike process dorsally; middle tibiae outwardly 

 with short black bristles along either margin and terminating apically 



' Memoirs Queensland Museum, vol. 4, 1915, p. 35. 



