VIII, D. 2 Baker: Capri fication in Ficus nota 77 



podites in some macrurous Crustacea. The meaning of this 

 enormous inflation and complex development of the tracheal 

 system in male Sycophaga presents a most interesting subject 

 for further investigation. 



Family TORYMID^ 



Subfamily IDARNIIN^^ 



Sycoryctes philippinensis sp. nov. 



Male. — Pale yellowish and nude, v^^ith small pigment-spot eyes ; 

 long rectangular head, short abdomen, and the hind legs greatly 

 lengthened with a laminately expanded first tarsal joint. Head 

 subrectangular, the angles rounded, the lateral margins nearly 

 parallel; length, 0.6 mm.; width, 0.3 mm., the small eyes on 

 lateral margins at anterior third. Mandibles large, unidentate, 

 inserted close together beneath anterior margin of head, and 

 far from the lateral margins, this causing their strong exten- 

 sion cephalad, while at rest their points are crossed and resemble 

 as viewed from above the crossed bill of Loxia. Antennse in- 

 serted in small contiguous sockets, the distance of the width 

 of each from the anterior margin of the head; antennse little 

 over one-half the length of head, 8-jointed, the scape stout and 

 swollen, the pedicel slender and one-half the length of scape, 

 next 2 joints irregular and subequal, the succeeding 2 very 

 small and subequal, with next a club of 2 joints which is as 

 long as the pedicel and broader. Head without longitudinal 

 depression ; ocelli all obsolete. Pronotum, 0.38 mm. long ; meso- 

 notum, 0.12 mm.; and metanotum, 0.33 mm. long; the pro- 

 notum much the deeper. Abdomen as long as thorax, narrowed 

 to a point apically, but there with rather strongly compressed 

 venter and greatly enlarged terminal spiracles. Anterior and 

 middle legs normal in size, the tibiae strongly enlarged apically 

 and with several strong teeth at apical angles, the middle tibiae 

 only possessing also marginal teeth. In both fore and mid tarsi 

 the last joint is the largest, the 3 intermediate very greatly 

 reduced and subequal, and the basal joint about one-half the 

 fifth in length. The hind legs of great size and length; coxae 

 parallel-sided and passing the middle of abdomen, while the 

 femora exceed the abdomen; tibiae broader at apex and larger 

 than their femora, without marginal teeth, but with 1 very 

 large and several smaller apical spines; tarsi (fig. 3, F) as 

 long as tibiae, the first joint greatly laminately expanded, as 

 broad as tibiae, longer than all remaining joints together, and 

 at outer apical angle roundly extended beyond the insertion 



