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The exuviae of Hagen's description and the Kissimee River 



larva may just as well be the early stages of the Gomphoides 



recorded by Pollard* from North Carolina as they may be of 



producta. The Texas exuvia is somewhere near these, but it 



is impossible to say what the species may be. — Philip P. 



Calvert.] 



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A new Platygasterid Genus with Remarkable 

 Antennae (Hym.). 



By Alan P. Dodd, Nelson, via Cairns, Queensland. 

 MIRAMBLYASPIS nov. gen. 

 $ . — Head transverse, a little wider than the thorax ; eyes 

 large ; ocelli rather wide apart, the lateral ones distant from 

 the eye margins by no more than their own diameter ; mandi- 

 bles bidentate. 



Thorax twice as long as wide, narrowed anteriorly; pro- 

 notum distinctly visible from above, especially on the sides ; 

 mesonotum longer than wide, parapsidal furrows wanting; 

 scutellum lengthened, projecting over the metathorax and 

 terminating in a straight, sharp spine. 



Abdomen broadly rounded behind ; a little longer and dis- 

 tinctly wider than the thorax ; petiolate ; first segment twice 

 as long as wide, with two carinae ; second segment occupying 

 two-thirds the abdominal length, scarcely longer than wide. 



Legs extremely long ; all trochanters lengthened ; anterior 

 tibiae not much lengthened, anterior tarsi fully three times as 

 long as their tibiae ; middle tibiae lengthened, middle tarsi 

 about twice as long as their tibiae ; posterior legs nearly twice 

 as long as the whole body, posterior tibiae very long, their tarsi 

 scarcely longer than the tibiae ; tarsi 5- jointed. 



Forewings very long, extending well beyond apex of abdo- 

 men ; without venation. 



Antennae 13-jointed, very long, as long as the posterior legs ; 

 filiform ; scape, pedicel, eight funicle joints, and between each 

 of the four apical funicle joints there is a small joint, resem- 

 bling a ring joint, quite distinct, small but a little longer than 



*Ent. News, xxii, p. 79. 191 1. 



