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Antenna 8-jointed, inserted just above the clypeus ; the scape very long 
and slender, about as longas the flagellum, excluding the club; and when 
drawn close to the face extends slightly beyond the ocelli ; pedicel cyathi- 
form ; joints of funicle 4, compressed about as in Sympiesis Forst., the 
first joint a little longer than the second, considerably longer than wide, 
the last two being about as long as wide; club 2-jointed, about half the 
width of the funicular joints. 
Thorax smooth, parapsides distinct, the shoulders very prominent, con- 
vex ; collar conical, the length of the mesonotum, and arranged along its 
posterior margin are six black bristles ; scutellum convex, with two grooves, 
the grooves diverging posteriority and then curving around and meeting, 
forming a complete frenum, and two black bristles at base. 
Legs moderately long, slender, the posterior pair much the longest: 
coxae conical, the middle and posterior pairs contiguous, the last pair 
being the longest; all tibiae with one weak apical spur; tarsi 4-jointed, 
basal and second joint about equal, two following short. 
Abdomen ovate, depressed, longly petiolated, the petiole longer than 
posterior coxae, slender, cylindrical, attached to the metathorax*on a line 
above the posterior coxa'; ovipositor slightly exserted. 
Wings with venation similar to Sympiesis, with two conical spines 
densely covered with black bristles, in appearance similar to the tuft on the 
scutellum in the Encyrtid genera Comys and Chiloneurus, and situated on 
the upper margin at about one-third the length of the wing. 
The head, scutellum, attachment of the abdomen to metathorax, and the 
wing characters at once distinguish this genus from any other in the sub- 
families Eulophince and Elachistinoe, the only groups in which the genus 
.could be placed. 
HopJocrepis albiclavus, n. sp. 
9. Length 1.5 mm. Pale brownish-yellow. Eyes black. Antennal 
scape Ipng, slender, yellowish; flagellum brown; club white. Coxae and 
petiole white ; basal portion of abdomen and three or four ventral seg- 
ments beneath pale yellowish, the rest of the abdomen dark brown. Wings 
hyaline, with two transverse brown bands extending entirely across the 
wings, the first narrow at about one-third the length of the wing, and in- 
cluding the abnormal spines or tufts ; the second is about three times the 
width of the first, with only a small clear space between it and the first 
band ; the whole apex of the wings clear. 
Described from a single specimen captured by the late Dr. R. S. Turner, 
at Fort George, Florida. 
Mr. Howard said that the spines on the tbrewings were proba- 
bly bunches of bristles, and that the collection of the Department 
of Agriculture contained a species having similar bristles on the 
forewings. Mr. Schwarz spoke of the occurrence, in Coleoptera, 
of spines on the elytra, mentioning genera in several families, 
