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width, neckless. Marginal cilia of the fore wing short, the discal cilia 

 uniform, about twenty-three lines where the wing is broadest. Strigil 

 large. Thorax flat, with a velvety sheen due to the dense minute scaly 

 sculpture. Abdomen shining. Distal four tarsal joints short, the first 

 joint long, very much longer. Middle tibial spur long, a little stout. 

 Ovipositor not extruded. Funicle 2 and all tibiae sometimes suffused 

 with yellow. 



$ . Similar but the flagellum is filiform, the pedicel globular, the 

 funicle joints subequal, each over twice longer than wide, the club joints 

 each somewhat shorter. The male organ is projected for a length 

 equal to that of the abdomen and is tapering and curved upward 



Described from a large number of specimens reared from 

 Aleurodicus on Thcobroma bicolor, Trinidad, British West 

 Indies, December, 1914 ( F. W. Urich). 



Types: Catalogue No. 20223, United States National Mu- 

 seum, two pairs on separate tags with a slide bearing one male, 

 three females and a female head (crushed). 



Encyrtus cecidomyiae Howard. Genotype of Pscitdcncyrtus Ash- 

 mead. 



Original description of the species correct but the scape has a moder- 

 ate uniform ventral dilation (seen mostly at apex) and thus appears 

 rather much compressed, the dilation not being convexed. Funicle i is 

 a little shorter than the pedicel and only a third longer than wide, 2 

 quadrate; 6 a little wider than long. The club is 3-jointed, ovate, wider 

 than the funicle, obliquely truncate at apex. The body is not punctured 

 but scaly with very minute setigerous punctures scattered over the tho- 

 rax. The marginal vein is twice longer than wide, subequal to the post- 

 marginal, the stigmal a third longer. The fore wing is infuscated light- 

 ly under the marginal and stigmal veins and there is a small substigmal 

 spot directly from the end of the stigmal vein. Discal cilia of fore 

 wing very dense, very fine, many somewhat coarser cilia proximad of 

 the hairless line. Mandibles tridentate, the first tooth acute and longer 

 than the subequal other two yet not projecting beyond them. Axillae 

 just meeting, narrow. Propodeum very short at the meson, transverse. 

 Face inflexed, the scrobes joined above. Frons not prominent, broad. 

 Cheeks as long as the eyes. Ovipositor valves a little extruded. Abdo- 

 men depressed. Funicle joints in the male about twice longer than 

 wide, the club solid and much longer ; male scape short, greatly con- 

 vexed-dilated (not twice longer than wide by far), the pedicel globular. 

 Flagellutn (male) clothed with rather long hairs. From the male and 

 female types in the United States "National Museum. 



