A NEW SPECIES OF PARAPHELINUS. 



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Antenna, (fig. 1, c) : length, # 3 mm. ; bulla over one- third of the scape (4 : 11). 

 The latter only a little over four times as long as broad (33 : 8). Bulla -f- scape longer 

 than pedicel -f- funicle. Club (nearly 4:1) elongate, three times as long as the last 

 funicular, and exceeding either funicle or scape. Bristles of scape much as in xiphidii, 

 except that there are only 3-4 bristles on the anterior apical half, and about 10 

 posteriorly. 



Wings (fig. 6). Forewings : length, *5 mm. ; breadth, -142 mm. ; narrowed 

 basally, narrower than in either xiphidii or perkinsi, about 3 J times as long as broad. 

 The oblique hairless tract with convergent sides and obscured on about the anterior 

 half, with 10-11 bristles below the submarginal. Hind wings (9 : 1) elongate, narrow 

 and pointed ; length, '45 mm. ; breadth, "05 mm. ; almost as long as the forewings, 

 and nearly bare apically. Longest bristles of fringe exceeding the greatest width. 





Fig. 6. P. tomaspidis, How., 2, wings. 



Abdomen not twice as long as thorax and propodeon. Ovipositor distinctly pro- 

 jecting and exceeding its sheath. The free portion of the latter with two longer 

 ventral bristles, two shorter above, and a number of minute ones at the apex ; there 

 are 9 short bristles in a patch above the distal end of the base of the sheath. 



Length, *8 mm. ; alar expanse, 1 1 mm. 



Mr. Williams' example is a little smaller than the genotype, with which however 

 it agrees in having the " hairless line " incomplete. 



The following is a comparative description of the legs of the three species here dealt 

 with : — 



Fore legs : coxae of xiphidii with 10-11 bristles anteriorly (about 15 in perkinsi, 

 7 in tomaspidis) ; femur about 4 : 1 in perkinsi, narrower (5:1) in tomaspidis ; 

 comb of first tarsal joint 13-14 in perkinsi, 9 tomaspidis, 10-11 xiphidii. Mid legs : 

 4-5 stiff bristles on coxa ; first tarsal joint with 3^ spinose bristles on apical posterior 

 edge. Hind legs : coxae bare, but for two bristles above the trochanter and one 

 antero-ventrally ; femur (xiphidii) anterior subventral row of 6-7 widely spaced 

 bristles and two irregular subdorsal rows of 6-7 each, on apical two-thirds ; in 

 tomaspidis only 7-8 subdorsal bristles in all, none below one half ; tibial comb in all 

 three species with 8-9 spines. 



In the chaetotaxy of the legs xiphidii and perkinsi agree more closely, tomaspidis 

 being a barer species. The first tarsal joint of the mid and hind legs is also rather 



