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of second joint to the length of that joint; the second, third, 

 and fourth joints small, subequal, and together about equaling 

 fifth joint in length; the first joint possesses on its outer margin 

 3 or 4 pairs of long, slender, curved spines. Male genitalia 

 consisting of 2 blunt lateral styles, each with 2 apical spines, 

 and 2 large subrectangular claspers each possessing 4 stout ter- 

 minal teeth, these all being concolorous with the rest of the 

 abdomen and not heavily chitinized or pigmented. The dimen- 

 sions given above are from a specimen of average size; some 

 specimens are slightly larger and others slightly smaller. 



Female. — Above dark brown; the face and all lower parts 

 pale; the legs light lemon yellow. Pro- and mesonotum, axillae, 

 and abdominal tergites coarsely reticulately shagreened; scu- 

 tellum very large, flat, regularly subpentangular, and with the 

 surface finely longitudinally shagreened. Mandibles unidentate ; 

 maxillary palpi 4-jointed; the first and third joints subequal, 

 and about one-half the length of the second and fourth, which 

 are subequal. Labial palpi 2-jointed; the first joint slender 

 and longer than the strongly oval second. Hind tibiae longer 

 than their femora, and with only weak hairs and 1 large spine 

 apically. Stigmal vein with an abruptly swollen subtrapezoidal 

 tip. Head, 0.4 mm. long; thorax, 0.6 mm.; and abdomen, 1.2 

 mm. long; the ovipositor 9 mm. long, or more than 4 times 

 the length of the body, slender, with comparatively few minute 

 hairs, and with the sheaths distinctly swollen at tip. 



Occurring in great numbers in November in gall figs of Ficus 

 nota at Los Bafios, P. I. I am inclined to regard this as a 

 parasite in its relation to the blastophaga. 



Philotrypesis similis sp. nov. 



Male. — Head (fig. 3, A) subquadrate, the angles rounded, 0.6 

 mm. wide, and 0.6 mm. long, the pigment-spot eyes at anterior 

 third and within the lateral margin. Face broadly excavated 

 between the eyes, and sparsely transversely lineolate; antennal 

 sockets small, separated a short distance, and with a weak 

 longitudinal carina between them, about as far as their width 

 from the anterior margin of the head. Antennae, 0.5 mm. long ; 

 the scape, 0.15 mm., about twice longer than wide, pedicel very 

 slender, one-half the length of scape, the single ring- joint small, 

 the flagellum of 4 subequal points, each about one-half the length 

 of the pedicel, and a barely indicated club of 2 joints. Mandibles 

 large, bidentate, their basal margins remote from margins of 

 head. Ocelli absent. Head above nearly nude, having only a 

 few stiff bristles on the margins, but below rather thickly 



