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Proctotrypes, Latreille. 



Serphus, Schrank, Kieffer, 1909. 



Kieffer has split the old genus Proctotrypes into three 

 genera, which do not appear valid. The characters given for 

 Serphus are: — 'Tropleures striees ; abdomen ordinairement 

 rouge en majeure partie; oviduct fiiiforme." The species 

 described below has some striae on the propleura, but the 

 oviduct is not filiform, and the body is wholly black. Kieffer's 

 Serphus, Schrank, contains fifteen species, chiefly from Europe 

 and North America. 



Proctotrypes australiae, Kieffer. 

 Berlin Ent. ZeitiSchr., vol. lii., 1907, p. 266.- Australia. 



Proctotrypes janthinae, n. sp. 



9 . Shining-black, the antennae concolorous ; legs black, 

 the knees and anterior tibiae and tarsi golden-yellow ; posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous; apex of all coxae yellow. Head, 

 scutum, and scutellum smooth, with very fine pubescence ; 

 propleura smooth, but with some striae, the mesopleura striate 

 for dorsal half ; parapsidal furrows wholly wanting ; meta- 

 notum rugose, the anterior portion short at meson, the 

 dividing carina thus V-shaped with its apex cephalad. Petiole 

 not visible from above ; the abdomen abruptly convex above 

 from its base (lateral aspect), produced into a long non-filiform 

 oviduct, this longer than body of abdomen. Forewings long, 

 broad ; hyaline ; venation fuscous ; stigma large, as wide as 

 long, the radial vein small, scarcely distant from the stigma, 

 the radial cell visible as a narrow split; no other veins. Scape 

 as long as first funicle joint, the pedicel much wider than long ; 

 first funicle joint fully twice as long as wide, the others short- 

 ening, the penultimate one-third longer than wide; last joint 

 distinctly longer than scape. Length, to apex of oviduct, 

 4"05 mm. 



Hab. — Victoria: Melbourne ( ?). One female, labelled 

 "No. 57, National Museum, bred from larva of fungus beetle, 

 Thallis janthina, 16/9/13, F.S." 



Type. — In the National Museum, Melbourne. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Cryptoserphus, Kieffer. 



Another of Kieffer's divisions of Proctotrypes, and of very 

 doubtful validity. Eleven species are known — one, C. uniden- 

 tatus, Kieffer, from Chili, the remainder from Europe. 

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