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denticles of fifth tarsal joint long, the chelar claw simply curved, 

 with oblique g-rooves on each side of its lower edge, and without 

 any subapical tooth, the whole being evidently adapted for catch- 

 ing Jassids. Stigma of front wings long, narrowly ovate, radius 

 bent or angulate near the middle, where the ( almost obliterated ) 

 transverse cubitus would originate. In the two species known 

 the wings are bifasciate. 



The male in this genus is very different superficially, being 

 much smaller, black, with clear wind's, but in many respects re- 

 sembles the female. The head is more transverse, less produced 

 behind the eyes, but otherwise rather similar, the ocelli being 

 remote from the hind margin. The pronotum is as usual not or 

 hardly visible in dorsal aspect and there are the other usual sexual 

 differences. The most important characters appear to be the 

 bare eyes, and the clothing of the antennae, these bearing long 

 curved hairs, several times as long as the width of the elongate 

 joints, the hairs tending to form whorls. The scape is clothed 

 like the following joints, but the hairs on the apical ones become 

 shorter, and the tenth joint has quite short ones. The posterior 

 ocelli are distant, each from the nearest eye-margin by a space 

 greater than that which lies between them. The mesonotal par- 

 apsides are like those of the female. 



This is a remarkable genus and appears to me to be interme- 

 diate in character between the sections of Dryinidae with large 

 ovate stigma and those with a narrow elongate one. It is. how- 

 ever, to be associated with the former section and comes near 

 to Chclogynns. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Head in front densely and more or less ruguiosely 



punctured D. paradoxus 



2 ( I ) Head in front for the most part with fine sparse 



punctures D. qucrcicola 



I. Dciiiodryiiius paradoxus sp. nov. 



Ferruginous, extreme base of abdomen black, apical two or 

 three joints of the antennae black or blackish, and one or two of 

 the preceding joints sometimes subinfuscate. 



Head with feebly impressed, coarse, rugose punctures on the 

 vertex, between the antennae and the front ocellus the sculpture 

 is finer and dense, more or less ruguiosely punctate. Third joint 

 of antennae one and a half times the length of the fourth or 



