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Described from six specimens from British Guiana, bred April 

 19, 1913, from larva of a hesperid by Mr. G. E. Bodkin. 



Type: Cat. No. 18175, U. S. N. M. 



Among the secondary sexual characters in this genus, are the 

 tubercles on the hind-coxae and on the lower inner margin of hind 

 femora, so these characters mentioned for the female will not be 

 found in the male. 



Holcencyrtus calypso n. sp. 



Female: Length about 0.87 mm. Face bronzy aeneous, frons greenish; 

 mesoscutum green, scutellum bronzy aeneous with the apex green; abdomen 

 aeneous; face and frons reticulate, vertex sharply carinate behind; lateral 

 ocelli about their own width from eye margin; face produced below, the 

 malar space being almost as long as the eye; antennae dark brown, clavate; 

 funicular joints subquadrate, the pedicel as long as joints one and two of 

 funicle combined; club about as long as the last three joints of funicle com- 

 bined; mesoscutum and scutellum reticulate, the former more distinctly 

 and coarsely so; scutellum with a distinct medial longitudinal depression 

 at base ; wings hyaline ; legs brown, knees, tibiae at apices and tarsi reddish- 

 testaceous. 



Described from many specimens from British Guiana, bred 

 July 20, 1913, from the larvae" of Calpodes ethlius by Mr. G. E. 

 Bodkin. 



Type: Cat. No. 18172, U. S. N. M. 



Elachertus meridionalis n. sp. 



Female: Length 1.75 mm. Black, the head with green and purplish 

 tints, the abdomen with a large whitish spot near base; frons finely 

 lineolate and with a few scattered, large punctures; scape testaceous, pedi- 

 cel light brown, rest of antennae dark brown; first joint of funicle longer 

 than pedicel; mesoscutum finely irregularly rugose, almost obscuring the 

 parapsidal furrows; axillae finely lineolate; scutellum finely longitudinally 

 aciculate; metanotum long, smooth; propodeum about twice as long as the 

 metanotum, with a strong median carina; legs whitish, the coxae almost 

 entirely brown, the hind femora and hind tibiae with about the apical half 

 brown. 



Male: Length 1.5 mm. Similar to the female but with less intense brown 

 on the hind femora and tibiae. 



Described from eighteen specimens from British Guiana, reared 

 August 20, 1913, from the larvae of Calpodes ethlius by G. A. 

 Bodkin. 



Type: Cat. No. 18173, U. S. N. M. 



