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Some Remarks on the Masarid Wasps 
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dinse, says that in Masaris the maxillary palpus is '‘reduced 
to a single segment represented by a mere tubercle”. He 
was unable to make out that of Masariella, but writes 
merely that they are “said by Brauns to be two-segmented.” 
It will be noted that the difference is very slight indeed, 
and, Bradley’s opinion notwithstanding, I greatly doubt its 
value as a generic character. In my recent paper I pro- 
visionally placed all the South African species in Masariella 
and those from the Mediterranean Subregion in Masaris ; 
but it remains to be shown whether this purely geographi- 
cal segregation is supported by a consistent difference in 
the mouth-parts or by other valid generic characters. As 
for the species from Northern Nigeria doubtfully placed 
in Masariella by v. Schulthess, a careful study of the an- 
tennal characters will have to decide whether it is not rather 
a Juguttia (of which one species is known from Gambia). 
The shape of the clypeus I can hardly regard as of generic 
value. 
It may be noted that v. Schulthess now expressly synony- 
mizes his genus Ceramiellus (1922) with Masariella , a 
course which I had followed in my paper. 
The six new species of Quartinia, described by v. Schul- 
thess, are all from South Africa and bring the total num- 
ber of species of that genus up to 14 (8 of them South 
African) . 
By far the most interesting addition though is the new 
genus Quartiniella, proposed for a new species, Q. water- 
stoni , of the Cape Province, South Africa. This little wasp, 
31/2 mm. in total length, is unique, not only among the 
Masaridinae but among the entire group Diploptera as well, 
in the reduction of the wing venation. The fore wing has 
only one closed cubital and one closed discoidal cell. That 
the single cubital cell corresponds to the true first cubital 
of the other Diploptera (and not to the combined first and 
second cubital cells) , is reasonably certain from the course 
of the only recurrent vein which ends a little beyond the 
apex of the cubital cell (as stated in the text, while the 
drawing shows it interstitial) . Otherwise the genus is said 
to be closely allied to Quartinia, but the mouth-parts are 
not described. 
