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ginal veins short, the stigmal vein rather long, slightl}- curved and 

 chxvate. 



Type.—C&t. No. 8957, U.S.N. M. 



Manila. One specimen. (Father Robert Brown.) 



Genus APHYCUS Mayr. 



12. APHYCUS ALBICLAVATUS, new species. 



Male. — Length 1 mm. Head and thorax mostl}- orange red, the 

 eyes brown bhick, the mouth parts, sides of thorax, legs, and the abdo- 

 men on each side at base white, the rest of the abdomen brownish, Avith 

 a median streak toward apex, and a median spot at apex of the basal 

 segment, black or dark fuscous. The antenna3 are black, but the 

 scape broadly at apex, the pedicel narrowly at apex, and the three last 

 joints of the flagellum, representing the club, are snow white; the 

 scape is dilated beneath, the tlagellum long, subtiliform and pubescent, 

 the joints of the funicle being about thrice as long as thick. Wings 

 hvaline, the veins brown. 

 ' Type.—OAi. No. 8958, U.S.N.M. 

 Manila. One specimen. (Father Robert Brown.) 

 This beautiful species is evidently allied to A. dactylopii described 

 from Hongkong, China, and known only in the female sex, so that 

 there is a probability of its being the opposite sex of that species. 

 This can not be settled positively until the female is discovered or until 

 the male of ^4. dadylopil is made known. 



Family PTEROMALID.E. 



Genus PARASAPHES Ashniead. 



13. PARASAPHES TOWNSENDI, new species. 



Female. — Length al>out 0.8 mm. Bluish l)lack, with a faint aeneous 

 tinge especially noticeable on the hind margin of the pronotum: the 

 hypopygium toward apex is testaceous; ocelli pale, arranged in a 

 triangle; scape of antenna^ and the legs brownish-j'ellow, the sutures 

 of the joints, the knees, and the tarsi whitish; tlagelhun l)rown, 

 pubescent, the funicle joints longer than thick, the tirst l)eing the 

 longest, about H times as long as thick. Wings hyaline, iridescent 

 and pul)escent, the marginal and stigmal veins ))rown, the other veins 

 pale; the marginal vein is fully four times as long as the stigmal 

 vein, or as long, or ver}^ slightlv longer, than the subcostal vein. 



The large head is transverse, a little wider than the thorax, about lo^ 

 times as wide as thick antero-posteriorly; behind it is broadly, shal 

 lowly concave; anteriorly it is convex; the pronotum is very slightl}- 

 longer tlian the mesonotum, l)ut not quite so wide; the mesonotum is 

 nuicli broader than long, with distinct parapsidal furrows that con- 



