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Anasfatiis Motsch. 



The single species here described agrees ver}^ well in most 

 respects with Anasfafus reared from the eggs of Locustidae. 

 Ine outer calcar of the posterior tibiae is minute compared with 

 the inner, but nevertheless quite visible without the use of a 

 compound -microscope. The eyes are collapsed, and I cannot 

 be sure whether 'they are bare or hairy, but I believe the former 

 to be the case. We should therefore place this insect, follow- 

 ing Ashmead's tables, in the genus Calosotcr Walk, 'and far from 

 Anasfafus, but in these tables there is confusion as regards the 

 •condition of the eyes, SoUndcnia, a form with very large, hairy 

 eyes, being placed in the bare-eyed group, and again in those 

 tables there is confusion as to the condition of the axillae. 

 Cameron remarks not only that his genus SoUndcnia has hairy 

 eyes, but also that European Calosoter has the same, and that 

 the middle tarsi of the latter are not setose. For the present, 

 therefore, I refer this ihyperparasite of leaf-hopper to the com- 

 mon genus Anastatiis, to Whic'h at least it \j, closely allied. 



Plate XX, fig. 5. 



Anasfafus pipnncuU, sp.-nov. 



Head and face reddish purple, the vertex with short black 

 hairs; the face with white, s'hort, but conspicuous, pubescence; 

 the surface dull, rough with indefinite sculpture. Antennae sub- 

 clavate, entirely dark, metallic in some aspects. Eyes divergent 

 anteriorly, the ocelli in a triangle muc'h widest at the base, the 

 posterior near the eye-margins. Thorax blackish-purple, the 

 mesonotal ridges, sharp, parallel, the clothing white and con- 

 spicuous and, like the sculpture, very similar to that of the face. 

 Wings fuscous, hairy, a hyaline, hairless, narrow, slightly curv- 

 ed, transverse band beneath the marginal vein, and a clear space 

 at the base of the wing. Stigmal vein long-, but less so than 

 the postmarginal. Tarsi more or less yellowish-brown, the 

 posterior darker, nearly the whole of 'he hind legs being black- 

 ish as is the greater part of the miaale and front tibiae, their 

 femora also being largely dark brown or blackish. Abdomen 

 purplish black, depressed on the basal two-thirds, and with a 

 transverse subbasal white band; the three segments following 

 this subequal in length. Ovipositor hardly exserted. Length 

 2 mm. when scarcely fully extended. 



EIAB: Bundaberg, Queensland; parasitic on Pipiinculus 

 cincrascens. 



