Description of Paranagrus osborni ii sp. 

 ( Hymenoptera, Mymaridae ) . 



BY D, T. FULLAWAY. 



Paranagrus osborni n. sp. 



9 .6 mm. long, flavous. head .smoky with some black markings, ab- 

 dominal tergite.s, all the joints of the flagellum and the valves of the 

 ovipositor fuscous. A'cry similar to P. oftahilis but smaller in all propor- 

 tions. Length of wings .48, length of valves of ovipositor .25, length of 

 valves to the suture .18. There is a constant difference in the propor- 

 tionate length of the two sections of the valves on either side of the 

 suture. In P. osborni it is 1:3.4; in P- optabilis 1:3. 



^ pallid, markings fainter; distal antennal joints broken oft'. 



Type locality — Los Baiios, Philip]iine Islands. Bred from 

 eo'c's of Percfjrinus ujdidis. by IT. T. ()sl)orn, 1915. Type and 

 Ki ]);iratypes inclnding; 1 S on three slides. Types in the eol- 

 h'ciidii of tlic IT. S. P. A. Ex])('riment Station, I loimliilu. 



XOTKS A.\I) K.KlllBITIOXS. 



Maui inserts. — ^fr. CJiffard exhibited fonr boxes of insects 

 colh'ctcd on ^Mani in Jnnc, and i>'ave notes on the Delphaeids 

 in the colh'ction, some of which were new species. Tie also 

 exhibited specimens of a new s])ecies of Keli.sia and a new 

 spe<des of IlJ)vr)iin and a nnnibei- of Jassids collected on Molo- 

 kai in Jnne Ity ^li-. d. F. Tiock." 



JfoJorltiord rctiosu. — Ml'. Swezev cxhibitccl a -])C('iiiicn of 

 this hii'i;c lii'ccn Locnstid oi' kalydiil. cnllcctoil l)y .Mr. ('harh's 

 .\thoilon at Lnakaha in .Xiiuaiiu \ alley, whci'c ho <:\\i\ tliat 

 they liad I'occnlly appoai'cd (|iiii(' common. .Mr. Timbcrlake 

 reported that he had bre(| A ndshil i/.'^ Irochclci fi'om eggs of this 

 katydid bi'oiight in by .Mr. Iio>a. Idle ])arasires had emerged 

 six weeks after the eggs were brought in. 



O.rijn rrlo.v. — ^Mr. Rwezey reported the finding of a small 



* The new species of Delphacids in the collections exhibited have been 

 worked by Mr. F. Muir. Sec his paper farther on in this issue. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, No. i, June, 19 19. 



