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are subject to slight variations only. Length variable, gener- 

 ally about I mm. 



HAB: Queensland generally, also Fiji; on leaf-hoppers' 

 eggs. Koebele's number 2230. 



Paraphcliniis, gen. nov. 



Like Aphcliiius in most respects, but differs from the rather 

 numerous species known to me in the narrower, more elongate 

 wings, the apex of the stigmal vein being situated just about 

 the middle of their length, and in the generally more slender 

 and elongate body, the abdomen twice or more than twice as 

 long as its greatest width and somewhat acuminate. The ocelli 

 are placed in the form of a very wide triangle, the posterior ones 

 close to the eye mangins. The antennae are 6-jointed and dis- 

 similar in the sexes; in the fem'ale the club longer than the three 

 preceding funicle joints, the first of these very short, the second 

 also short but longer than wide, the third about twice as long 

 as the preceding and subequal to ihalf the club, the pedicel elon- 

 gate. Male with elongate pedicel, followed by two extremely 

 short joints, almost like ring-joints, the following (or third 

 funiclar) joint very elongate muc'h more so than in the female, 

 not very much shorter than the elongate club, which is not very 

 different from that of the fem'ale. 



Plate XX, fig. 6. 



Paraphcliniis xiphidii, sp. nov. 



Yellow, the head more ferruginous, the abdomen at the sides 

 with indefinite dark lateral spots, one on each side of the seg- 

 ments, w'hic'h are subequal in length; mesothorax wath a row of 

 setae on either side of the middle line, parallel to one another; 

 two in a line on each side of the scutellum, wider apart than 

 those on the mesothorax; a few other setae on the thorax ex- 

 terior to those already mentioned; clear oblique hairless line of 

 front wings verv distinct, extreme base of wing also nude, the 

 apical fringe not very short. Described from specimens in bal- 

 sam. Length i mm. or more. 



HAB: Hawaiian islands; parasitic in eggs of Xiphidium 

 varipenne Swezey. 



