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nidae are caprifiers is not true, if any with long ovipositors and 

 which oviposit from the exterior of the fig are admitted to that 

 family. His statement that the head in males of Idarniinse is 

 "long or oblong" must likewise be modified, since there are some 

 with heads as broad as long, and others with the heads even 

 broader than long. The degree of excavation of the upper sur- 

 face of the head is very variable through the series of species. 

 The ovipositor may be very short in Agaonidse. Also the middle 

 legs may be much slenderer than the others, and the male head 

 may be more deeply foveate in certain Idarniinse than in certain 

 Agaonidse, and any definite group line, between a long vermiform 

 abdomen and a short pointed one, is impossible to draw. There 

 is the greatest necessity of collecting more than usually exten- 

 sive material in these groups for the right kind of study. The 

 different species of figs should be carefully examined one by one, 

 and large numbers of the contained insects, both male and female, 

 collected in vials of alcohol, carefully labeled with the full name 

 of the fig. 



Family AGAONID^ 



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Subfamily AGAONIN^E 



Blastophaga nota sp. nov. 



Male. — Pale yellow throughout, the abdomen paler, naked >)| 



except for the very large deformed posterior legs, almost the 

 entire surface of which is minutely thickly pilose. Head, 0.7 

 mm. long by 0.43 mm. wide, subrectangular, slightly narrowed 

 in front, with the sides broadly rounded; eyes wanting. Man- 

 dibles very strongly, deeply, and evenly bidentate. Antennse 

 inserted in deep narrow sulci which pass caudad from base of 

 mandibles and converge at 0.25 mm. in length of head. Antennse 

 not exceeding tips of mandibles, 5-jointed, the pedicel and last 

 joint long and subequal, and each about one-half the length of 

 the scape, the third still shorter. 



Pronotum trapezoidal, as broad caudad as head, but apically 

 narrower. Mesonotum transverse, slightly wider than pronotum. 

 Metanotum (used in males as including dorsulum) triangular, 

 the angles broadly rounded, as wide as, and longer than, mesono- 

 tum. Abdomen vermiform, abruptly bent after the first seg- 

 ment, and closely reflexed under the thorax, its apex, at rest, 

 extended forward to middle of head. 



Fore and hind legs greatly distorted and modified, the middle 

 legs normal. Fore tibise (fig. 3, E) greatly broadened apically, v 



the apical angles produced into heavy incurved teeth; fore tarsi s 



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