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female antenna by Kieffer {I.e.). I have taken this opportunity 

 to pubhsh a figure (Fig. 2) of the complete insect which was 

 drawn by my wife several years ago. 



As Fiji is so far removed from the localities where the other 

 species have been taken, it would appear probable that the 

 present species is new. From the Australian P. mirabilis Dodd 

 (Trans. Roy. Soc. So. Australia, vol. 37, p. 132 (1913) and ibid. 

 vol. 39, p. 444 (1905) it differs in having the propodeal groove 

 trongly erenate and also in having the apical abdominal seg- 

 ments entirely punctate. However, my only specimen of the 

 Australian species is a female, and the male may be still more 

 similar. From the type species, P. pulchricornis Kieffer (I.e.) it 

 differs bj^ the presence of oblique striae on the propodeum behind 

 and by a longer marginal vein (six times as long as thick) which 

 extends only to the middle of the wing. From P. abnormis 

 Crawford (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, p. 126 (1910) known 

 from Manila, it differs by lacking distinct punctures in the 

 groove along the anterior orbits and the antennae are blackened 

 apically. From Fullaway's, P. wilcoxi found on Guam, (Proc. 

 Hawaiian Ent. Soc. ,vol. 2, p. 283 (1913) it differs in having the 

 abdomen entirel}^ black and in having the apical antennal joints 

 elongate; it is possible however, that Fullaway may have had 

 a female and not a male as he supposed at the time the des- 

 cription was written; P. piinctatiis KiefTer. (Insecta Rennes, 

 vol. 3, p. 321, (1914) may be the same species. 



So far the habits of these strangely flattened insects do not 

 appear to have been observed. Neither have those of the 

 Australian Platytelenomus Dodd (Ent. News, vol. 25, p. 126 

 (1914) which is modified in the same way. Dodd refers to the 

 latter as common in "forest country" and as it is probably an 

 egg parasite, the females may find their hosts beneath bark as 

 appears to be the case with the greatly flattened although 

 much larger Braconids of the genus Platybracon. 



