A NEW SPECIES OF PARAPHELINUS. 



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which Howard has figured as representative of Dalman's genus (U. S. Rept. Agric. 

 Tech. Series, No. 1, p. 23, fig. 7, 1895). 



Genus Paraphelinus, Perk. 



5 Head (fig. 1, a, b, c) : In profile, long antero-posteriorly, the vertex, which 

 hardly rises above the level of the eyes, being flattened, like the upper frons. Face 

 inflated, widening ventrally and curving in sharply above the perpendicular clypeus ; 

 genal keel short ; temples and genae swollen, the latter widening ventrally. Eye 

 subtriangular, occupying about two-thirds of the depth, both upper angles broadly, 



Fig. 1. Paraphelinus xiphidii, Perk., $ : (a) head, thorax, and propodeon ; 



(b) head, etc., in profile. Paraphelinus perkinsi, sp. n., $ : (c) head, front view ; 



(d) pronotum ; (e) presternal apophysis ; (/) mesosternopleurae — all flattened. 



the lower angle hardly at all, rounded, set with numerous bristles arranged in straight 

 rows. From above, the vertex is both broad and long, the orbits nearly parallel, 

 but slightly divergent posteriorly ; ocelli in a wide-angled triangle, the lateral pair 

 about two diameters from the edge ; supra-occipital edge broadly rounded ; temples 

 swollen distinctly backwards. From in front, the face proper contracts ventrally, 

 the most remarkable feature of the head here being the running of the broad genal 

 keel forward below the toruli to the upper angles of the clypeus, and the shortening 



