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female antenna by Kieffer ( l.c .). I have taken this opportunity 
to publish a figure (Fig. 2) of the complete insect which was 
drawn by my wife several years ago. 
As Fiji is so far removed from the localities where the other 
species have been taken, it would appear probable that the 
present species is new. From the Australian P. mirabilis Dodd 
(Trans. Roy. Soc. So. Australia, vol. 37, p. 132 (1913) and ibid. 
vol. 39, p. 444 (1905) it differs in having the propodeal groove 
trongly crenate and also in having the apical abdominal seg- 
ments entirely punctate. However, my only specimen of the 
Australian species is a female, and the male may be still more 
similar. From the type species, P. pulchricornis Kieffer (l.c.) it 
differs by the presence of oblique strise on the propodeum behind 
and by a longer marginal vein (six times as long as thick) which 
extends only to the middle of the wing. From P. abnormis 
Crawford (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, p. 126 (1910) known 
from Manila, it differs by lacking distinct punctures in the 
groove along the anterior orbits and the antennae are blackened 
apically. From Fullaway’s, P. wilcoxi found on Guam, (Proc. 
Hawaiian Ent. Soc. ,vol. 2, p. 283 (1913) it differs in having the 
abdomen entirely black and in having the apical antennal joints 
elongate; it is possible however, that Fullaway may have had 
a female and not a male as he supposed at the time the des- 
cription was written; P. punctatus Kieffer. (Insecta Rennes, 
vol. 3, p. 321, (1914) may be the same species. 
So far the habits of these strangely flattened insects do not 
appear to have been observed. Neither have those of the 
Australian Platytelenomus Dodd (Ent. News, vol. 25, p. 126 
(1914) which is modified in the same way. Dodd refers to the 
latter as common in ‘ 'forest country” and as it is probably an 
egg parasite, the females may find their hosts beneath bark as 
appears to be the case with the greatly flattened although 
much larger Braconids of the genus Platybracon. 
