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opinion that it must have been destroyed soon after it 
was described. It is possible, however, that the type had 
been overlooked, and may still remain amongst the Bri- 
tish Specimens in the Entomological Club. 
I am, dear Sir, yours. etc. 
If Walkers specimen is really a Trichogrammid the pos- 
sibility not being excluded that it could belong to the 
genus Lathromeris (or Poropoea), and if this isnot the case, 
it must belong to a new genus, as it cannot belong to 
the genus Trichogramma, from the description given. 
Chaetostrichella Girault. 
1914 Chaetostrichella A. A. Girault. Mitt. a. d. Zool. Mus. in Berlin. 
VU B2 HISP TER 
Female: Antennæ 5-jointed with one ring joint which 
is distinct, the club solid, the pedicel elongate, nearly as 
long as the scape, twice the length of the single funicle 
joint. Fore wings rather broad, normally ciliate, the mar- 
ginal cilia short (the longest not a sixth af the greatest 
wing width); venation not reaching to the middle of the 
wing, straigt, the marginal vein longer than the submar- 
ginal, the stigmal subsessile, nearly at right angles to the 
marginal. Abdomen conic-ovate, not long but longer than 
the rest of the body, the ovipositor (and valves) exserted 
for over a third af its length and the distal segment pro- 
duced into a short stylus which is three fourths the length 
of the exserted portion of the ovipositor. Tibial spurs single, 
that of the cephalic legs minute and straight (absent, 
perhaps, since it is no longer than the clothing of the legs). 
Mandibles tridentate, the head triangular. Legs slender. 
Hind wings missing. Male: Not known. 
C. platoni Girault. 
C. platoni Girault Mitt. a. d. Zool. Mus. in Berlin. VII. B. 2 H. p. 147. 
