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rather slender; terminal clasp segment long, slender, slightly 

 curved; dorsal plate moderately long, deeply and triangularly 

 emarginate, the broad lobes divergent and broadly rounded 

 apicad; ventral plate a little shorter, broad, broadly rounded; 

 harpes short, stout, and with a dense fringe of long chitinized 

 spines apicad; style long, slender, truncate. 



Female. — Length, 1.5 millimeters. Antennae nearly as long 

 as body, reddish brown, sparsely haired ; 14 segments, fifth with 

 a stem as long as subcylindrical basal enlargement, which has 

 a length one-half greater than its diameter and is strongly con- 

 stricted near the middle ; there is a sparse whorl of long, moder- 

 ately stout setae basad and near the middle a circumfilum with 

 moderately high loops and another with loops one-half the length 

 of the stem. Terminal segment somewhat produced, its 

 length about three times its diameter and tapering to a broadly 

 rounded apex. First segment of palpi irregular; second rather 

 long, slender ; third one-half longer, dilated. Mesonotum, scutel- 

 lum, and postscutellum shining dark brown. Abdomen brown- 

 ish red, fuscous basad. Halteres whitish, transparent. Coxse 

 yellowish. Femora and tibiae pale straw, tarsi a little darker. 

 Claws moderately long, slender, strongly curved, pulvilli a little 

 shorter than claws. Ovipositor short, stout, the lobes narrowly 

 oval and sparsely setose, otherwise nearly as in male. 



Type. — Cecid. a2844, New York State collection ; paratype, 

 No. 18151, College of Agriculture, Los Bafios. 



Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling, 1917, College of Agricul- 

 ture accession No. 18151 (Uichanco) , reared from leaf galls on 

 Parashorea malaanonan (Blanco) Merrill. The generic refer- 

 ence is tentative, and from an examination of the insects I am 

 inclined to believe that this species may be predaceous rather 

 than phytophagous. 



Hyperdiplosis banksi sp. nov. 



Female. — Length, 1.75 millimeters. Antennae probably nearly 

 as long as body, dark brown, thickly haired; probably 14 seg- 

 ments, fifth with a stem about three-fourths the length of cylin- 

 drical basal enlargement, which has a length about twice its 

 diameter, a sparse whorl of stout setae basad and a similar whorl 

 subapicad. First segment of palpi subquadrate; second long, 

 irregular; third a little longer than second, slenderer; fourth 

 a little longer than third, somewhat dilated. Eyes black. Meso- 

 notum brownish yellow, the submedian lines a little lighter. 

 Scutellum yellowish. Postscutellum reddish brown. Abdomen 



