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JAMES WATERSTON. 



Wings (fig. 3) about three and a third times as long as broad ; length, "7 mm. ; 

 breadth, 21 mm. (excluding fringe). Hind wings over eight times as long as broad ; 

 length, '6 mm. ; breadth, *07 mm. (excluding fringe) ; longest hairs of fringe as long 

 as, or just exceeding the breadth. 



Abdomen twice as long as thorax and propodeon, and nearly thrice as long as broad 

 (8 : 3). The 7th tergite long and narrow, much longer (10 : 7) than the preceding 

 (spiracular) tergite. The ovipositor does not exceed the sheath, which projects shortly 

 (one-third the length of the seventh tergite), the free portion of the sheath being 

 about one-half the base. Above the fixed part of the ovipositor sheath there are on 



Fig. 4. Paraphelinus xipkidii, q : (a) antenna. 



P. perkinsi, $ : (b) antenna ; (c) forewing. 



the apical half about 4 longer bristles with 3 above placed below and behind the 

 setigerous process ; the free portion of the sheath bears a ventral row of 4-5 longer 

 bristles with as many more (shorter) above and one or two (minute) at the apex. 



Length, about 1 mm. ; alar expanse, 1*6 mm. 



cJ. — Antenna (fig. 4, a) : length, '37 mm. Forewings : length, '64 mm. ; breadth, 

 '2 mm. Hindwings : length, *54 mm. ; breadth, '07 mm. 



Paraphelinus perkinsi, sp. nov. 



Vertex, upper two-thirds of frons, eyes, and entire dorsal thoracic surface, pale 

 rusty yellow ; the dark inner chitinous socket of the eye shining through ; ocelli, 

 tips of mandibles, and ventral half of orbits (very narrowly) dark reddish brown ; 

 genae infuscated a little. Wings faintly tinted, veins hardly darker than the 

 membrane. Otherwise colourless transparent, with the following marks : Anterior 



