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Family Scelionidce. 
Platyscelio Kieffer. 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, Ser. 3, vol. 2 (42), p. 11 (1905). 
This remarkable genus of Scelionidse, with greatly flattened 
body was first found in New Guinea from whence Kieffer ( l.c ., 
p. 12) described the type, P. pulchricornis in 1905. Since then 
it has been found in Indo-malaya, Australia and Polynesia 
(Guam). All of the species so far described appear to be very 
Fig. 2. Platyscelio sp. c? 1 
closely related, and from the several descriptions I have been 
unable to distinguish clearly two male specimens from Fiji which 
quite possibly represent an undescribed species. These were 
collected on Rewa of the Fiji group by Mr. F. Muir in 1905. 
As the genus has never been figured, except for a diagram of the 
