Description of Paranagrus osborni ii sp. 

 ( Hymenoptera, Mymaridae ) . 



BY D. T. FULLAWAY. 



Paranagrus osborni n. sp. 



5 .6 mm. long, flavous. head smoky with some hlack markings, ab- 

 dominal tergites, all the joints of the flagellum and the valves of the 

 ovipositor fuscous. Very similar to P. optabilis but smaller in all propor- 

 tions. Length of wings .48, length of valves of ovipositor .25, length of 

 valves to the suture .18. There is a constant difference in the propor- 

 tionate length of the two sections of the valves on either side of the 

 suture. In P. osborni it is 1:3.4; iii P- optabilis 1:3. 



$ pallid, markings fainter; distal antennal joints broken off. 



Type locality — Los Banos, Philippine Islands. Bred from 

 eggs of Percf/rinus maiclis. hy H. T. Osliorn, 1915. Type and 

 16 paratvpes including 1 $ on three slides. Types in the col- 

 lection of the H. S. P. A. Experiment Station, Honolnln. 



XOTES AXD EXHIBITIOXS. 



Maiii iii.'-irets. — ^fr. Giffard exhibited four l)oxes of insects 

 collected on Mani in June, and gave notes on the Delph acids 

 in the collection, some of which were new species. Tie also 

 exhibited specimens of a new species of Kclisia and a new- 

 species of Ilburnia and a nnmber of Jassids collected on ]\Iolo- 

 kai in Jnne by Mr. J. F. Rock." 



Holoclilora renosa. — Mr. Swezey exhibited a specimen of 

 this large green Locustid or katydid, collected by Mr. Charles 

 Atherton at Lnakaha in Xiuianu Valley, where he said that 

 they had recently appeared quite common. Mr. Timberlake 

 reported that he had bred Anastatus hoehelei from eggs of this 

 katydid brought in by ]\Ir. Bosa. The parasites had emerged 

 six weeks after the eggs were brought in. 



Oxya relo.v. — Mr. Swezey reported the finding of a small 



* The new species of Delphacids in the collections exhibited have been 

 worked by Mr. F. Muir. See his paper farther on in this issue. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IV, Xo. i, June, igrg. 



