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brown ; spines brown, short and not numerous, 5 or 6 on tibiae and 4 

 on the second and third femora. 



Abdomen above black, narrowed basally on i to form a nearly equi- 

 lateral triangular area ; basal two-thirds of 9 dark rich blue, apex of 

 9, all of 10 and appendages black (in one specimen blue is not evident 

 on 9 which is pruinose with a large rounded median pruinose spot on 

 10) ; sides of i and 2 extensively pale, almost white; a small basal 

 spot of same color on 3 and a longer, ill defined inferior pale area sub- 

 apically on the same segment, or the entire side below except the ex- 

 treme apex pale ; 4-6 similar but with the spots successively less con- 

 spicuous posteriorly, the subapical spot disappearing on 6, or with the 

 pale the full length of each segment below except the apex, narrow- 

 ing progressively from 4 to 6 ; 7 narrowly pale at base, encircling the 

 segment, pale the entire length below except at extreme apex ; 8 pale 

 blue or yellowish basally, not reaching the apex where the black of 

 the dorsum extends over the sides for one-fourth the length of the 

 segment, but the black does not reach the extreme lower border: 9 

 similar to 8 but distinctly blue, the apical black slightly less extended 

 than on 8; 10 and appendages black. 



Appendages as figured. They are peculiar in the longHeteragrion- 

 like form of the superiors, and the so-called rudimentary inferiors, 

 which in this case alone so far as I know, unless tenmssima is an ex- 

 ception also, have a minute lateral spine. 



Described from 2 males, Rockstone, British Guiana, B. J- 

 Rainey, L. A. and E. B. Williamson, Feb. i, 1912; in the 

 writer's collection. 



Three new Species of Coccophagus, Family Encyr- 



tidae (Hym.). 



By A. A. GIRAULT, Washington, D. C. 



1. Coccophagus magniclavus new species. 



Female. Length, i.oo mm. Deep orange yellow, the following parts 

 black: Caudal half of parapsidal furrows, club, a small round spot in 

 the middle of each parapside, apex (cephalad) of the much advanced 

 axilla, suture along cephalic margin of scutellutn, thorax transversely 

 laterad of scutellutn, propodeum except broadly across meson, imme- 

 diate center of the occiput transverselv and dorsal abdomen (but as the 

 incisions sometimes show through, then the abdomen appears to be 

 alternately striped white and black). Abdomen orange yellow at base 

 transversely. Club blotched with yellowish. Pronotum black except 

 laterad. Legs white; the fore wings hyaline; venation, pale yellow. 

 Tip of abdomen above and ovipositor valves yellow. 



