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Type: Zaglijptonotus schwarz-i Crawford. 



Zaglyptonotus schwarzi new species. 



Female: Length about 3 mm.; ovipositor about 3.5 mm. Green with a 

 brassy tinge; antennae brown, the scape and pedicel green; vertex and 

 dorsum of mesothorax rugoso-punctate on front of mesoscutum and para- 

 sidal areas the sculpture aciculate in somewhat diamond shapes as in 

 many species of Monodontomerus ; wings hyaline; legs green, the tibise 

 brown, with only a slight greenish tinge, the tarsi testaceous. 



Type locality: San Diego, Texas. Type specimen, Cat, No. 

 18178 U. S. N. M. Described from three females labelled "24.4" 

 (April 24) E. A. Schwarz, collector. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF STREPSIPTERA 

 PARASITIC ON SUGAR CANE INSECTS. 



BY W. DWIGHT PIERCE, Bureau of Entomology. 



Although the order Strepsiptera is composed entirely of parasitic 

 insects, the majority of the species of which the hosts are known 

 attack insects of no great economic importance. For a number of 

 years the entomologists of Hawaii sought in various parts of the 

 world parasites of the sugar cane leaf hoppers, including the 

 Strepsiptera in their searches. They brought to light several 

 interesting species, parasitic on different leaf hoppers (Homop- 

 tera) . 



I am now able to describe two additional species of Halictop- 

 hagidse important as enemies B of sugar cane leaf hoppers from the 

 two hemispheres. One was 'obtained in very large numbers by 

 Mr. Thomas H. Jones of Porto Rico at Rio Piedras, as a parasite of 

 the destructive Stenucranus saccharivorus Westwood, the other was 

 found by Mr. C. S. Misra, at Pusa, India, as a parasite of the sugar 

 cane fly of India, Pyrilla sp. The sugar cane leaf hopper of Fiji, 

 Perkins iela vitiensis Kirkaldy has already been recorded as com- 

 monly parasitized by an Elenchid, Elenchoides perkinsi Pierce. 



The genus Stenocramis belongs to the Fulgorid family Delpha- 

 cidse, and the genus Pyrilla belongs to the Fulgorid family 

 Lophopidae.. 



Family Halictophagidae. 



SUBFAMILY ANTHERICOMMINAE. 

 STENOCRANOPHILUS new genus. 



Male: Head excavated behind, seen from above consisting of a narrow 

 arcuate rim supporting the eyes and produced considerably in front of these 



