1922] 



Brues — Parasitic Hymenoptera from Fiji 



2V: 



Family- Scelionidce. 

 Platyscelio Kieffer, 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, Ser. 3, vol. 2 (42), p. 11 (1905). 

 This remarkable genus of Scelionidse, with greatly flattened 

 body was first found in New Guinea from whence Kieffer (I.e., 

 p. 12) described the type, P. pulchricornis in 1905. Since then 

 it^has been found in Indo-malaya, Australia and Polynesia 

 (Guam). All of the species so far described appear to be verj^ 



Fig. 2. Platyscelio sp. 



closely related, and from the several descriptions I have been 

 unable to distinguish clearly two male specimens from Fiji which 

 quite possibly represent an undescribed species. These were 

 collected on Rewa of the Fiji group by Mr. F. Muir in 1905. 

 As the genus has never been figured, except for a diagram of the 



