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F e m a 1 e: — Uiiknown. 



Described from a single male specimen received through the 

 kindnes8 of Dr. L. 0. Howard, mounted on a slidc labelled „998. Perth, 

 W. Austr. G. Compere." 



H a b i t a t: West Australia (Perth). 



Type: Type No. 13,835, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C., one male in baisam. 



2. Anagrus armatus (Ashmead). 



This species when mounted in baisam stains it a pinkish. It varies 

 considerably in general body color, sometimes being wholly pinkish 

 in color, this fading out, when mounted in baisam, to yellow. A female 

 of the variety nigriventris Girault capturcd in a greenhouse at Urbana, 

 Illinois, April 20, 1911, had the thorax nearly orange in color and 

 twenty-four hours after being mounted alive in baisam its body was 

 surrounded by a pink cloud originating from the thorax; the color 

 of the latter, consequently, fading toward yellow. 



In the collections of the United States National Museum I have 

 found another female specimen of the variety nigriventris, preserved 

 dry in a small vial and bearing no data other than the number 7. It 

 was colored as described in the original description, having very 

 probably faded out from its natural color as noted above. However, 

 the colors in nature are frequently not pink on the thorax and when 

 yellow fade but little. 



3. Anagrus brocheri Schulz. 



Brocher, 1910, pp. 177— 180, pl. XI, fig. 8; Schulz, ib., pp. 192 

 —193, figs. 3 and 4. 



Dr. E. F. Weber, Musee d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, has very 

 kindly loaned to me for study, at my request, one male and three 

 female specimens of this species which were transmitted to him for 

 that purpose by Dr. Frank Brocher of Vandoeuvres pres Geneve. 

 I make herewith a comparison of it with those American species so 

 far described and with such European species known to me personally. 

 At first, howe-ver, it should be stated that it is a typical Anagrus 

 characterized by being somewhat larger than normal. As concems 

 the Americar species, it i^ most ciniilar to armatus Ashmead in structural 

 characteristics but differs markedly in coloration from the usual bright 

 yellow of that species, being brown^), its color uniform. The antennae 

 differ from those of armatus not very much, on the average being 

 similar; however, the scape is somcAvhat longer^), the pedicel less 

 stout. The fore wings of brocheri differ from those of armatus in being 

 somewhat more regulär in outline, in being more distinctly but uni- 

 formly and lightly fumated throughout and in having the marginal 

 vein stouter and somewhat shorter. Otherwise both pairs of wings 



^) One of the females nearly olive. 



*) Also very finely serrulate along its ventral margin; but further examination 

 shows that this is also true of armatiis. The serrulation is due to a fine ridged 

 sculpture or a sculpture like overlapping plat«3. 



