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Running in Girault's table of species (1915) to grayi, 

 Girault, and lavoirsieri, Girault. The color of the oviposital 

 valves in this species is certainly variable, and the use of that 

 character for specific distinctions is questionable. 



Anastatus aristotelea, Girault. 



Specimens, which agreed with the description of this 

 species, were received, labelled "From eggs of the 

 Neuropteron, Torbia viridissima, Darwin, Northern Territory, 

 1/8/15, G. F. Hill." Thus three such closely allied species 

 as pipunctdi, Perkins, hlattidifurax, Girault, and aristotelea , 

 Girault, are parasitic on hosts of different orders. 



Metapelma superba, n. sp. 



9- Length, 4'50 mm., exclusive of the ovipositor. 

 Aeneous-green, with brilliant green and purple reflections; 

 legs deep rufous, washed lightly with metallic, the posterior 

 femora more so, the posterior coxae purple, the basal two 

 joints of intermediate tarsi white; scape golden-yellow," the 

 antennae otherwise dark; oviposital valves wholly dark. 



Head a little wider than the thorax ; eyes large, feebly 

 pubescent, somewhat convergent dorsally ; ocelli large, equi- 

 distant from each other, the lateral pair almost touching the 

 eye margins; viewed from in front the head is almost circular, 

 slightly longer than wide ; vertex and less than upper half of 

 face with scaly impressed reticulation ; lower half or more of 

 face depressed and margined, transversely lineolate and with 

 short white flattened setae ; from lateral aspect below eyes 

 closely finely reticulate-punctate; mandibles large, tridentate ; 

 apical joint of maxillary palpi enlarged, long and conspicuous. 

 Thorax without conspicuous pubescence ; scutum deeply 

 depressed at meson, the ridges acute; lateral lobes finely 

 transversely lineolate, the median lobe closely finely 

 polygonally reticulate-punctate, also the scutellum and 

 axillae ; scutellum declivous at apex ; axillae plainly separated 

 at base ; the long lateral sclerite of thorax finely very closely 

 longitudinally striate ; propodeum short, very finely trans- 

 versely lineolate, the spiracle large and oval. Abdomen short 

 and broad, as in Anastatus; abruptly declivous at apex; 

 rather finely scaly ; segments 2-4 incised at meson of posterior 

 margin ; oviposital valves exserted for a length one-half 

 greater than that of abdomen. Intermediate tarsi armed 

 with stout black teeth ; posterior tibiae and basal tarsal joint 

 compressed and flat, not very broad. Forewings long and 

 broad ; base of wing hyaline, from a little proximad of base 

 of marginal vein rather deeply clouded, fading distad, 



