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Anastatiis Motsch. 



The single species here described agrees very well in most 

 respects with Anastatus reared from the eggs of Locustidae. 

 \ ne outer calcar of the posterior tibiae is mintite compared with 

 the inner, but nevertheless quite visible without the use of a 

 compound microscope. The eyes are collapsed, and I cannot 

 be sure whether they are bare or hairy, but I believe the former 

 to be the case. We should therefore place this insect,, follow- 

 ing Ashmead's tables, in the genus Calosoter Walk, 'and far from 

 Anastatiis, but in these tables there is confusion as regards the 

 condition of the eyes, Solindenia, a form with very large, hairy 

 eyes, being placed in the bare-eyed group, and again in those 

 tables there is confusion as to the condition of the axillae. 

 Cameron remarks not only that his genus Solindenia has hairy 

 eyes, but also that European Calosoter has t'he same, and that 

 the middle 'tarsi of the latter are not setose. For the present, 

 therefore, I refer this diyperparasite of leaf-hopper to the com- 

 mon genus Anastatus, to w'hic'h at least it u closely allied. 



Plate XX, fig. 5. 



Anastatus pipunculi, sp. nov. 



Head and face reddish purple, the vertex with short black 

 hairs; the face with white, s'hort, but conspicuous, pubescence; 

 the surface dull, rough with indefinite sculpture. Antennae sub- 

 clavate, entirely dark, metallic in some aspects. Eyes divergent 

 anteriorly, the ocelli in a triangle muc'h widest 'at t'he base, the 

 posterior near the eye-margins. Thorax blackis'h-purple, the 

 mesonotal ridges, sharp, parallel, the clothing white and con- 

 spicuous and, like the sculpture, verv- similar to that of the face. 

 Wings fuscous, hairy, a hyaline, hairless, narrow, slightly curv- 

 ed, transverse band beneath the marginal vein, and a clear space 

 at the base of the wing. Stigmal vein long, but less so than 

 the postmarginal. Tarsi more or less yellowish-brown, the 

 posterior darker, nearly the whole of 'he hind legs being black- 

 ish as is the greater part of the miaale and front tibiae, their 

 femora also being largely dark brown or blackish. Abdomen 

 purplisih black, depressed on t'he basal two-t'hirds, and with a 

 transverse su'bbasal white band; the three segments following 

 this subequal in length. Ovipositor hardly exserted. Length 

 2 mm. when scarcely fully extended. 



HAB: Bundaberg, Queensland; parasitic on Pipuncuhix 

 cincrascens. 



