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outline, testaceous, but with the lateral margins and the tip brownish ; 

 the flagellum is nearly filiform, finely pubescent, with the joints shorter 

 than in female. 



Type.— No. 8r25, U. S. N. iM. 



Manila. Described from 2 $ s and i c^ , bred by Father Brown 

 from the eggs of a butterfly, Fapilio, sp. 



Apterencyrtus, new genus. 



This new genus is proposed for a minute wingless $ Encyrtine, 

 quite characteristic, and easily characterized. It falls into my tribe 

 Mirini, and may be placed in my table of genera. Classification of the 

 Chalcidoidea, p. 301, No. 25, between Coccophoctomis and Fhcenodiscus. 



25. Wingless forms. 



Antennse inserted close to the mouth, the scrobes distinct, the 

 .- scape slender, the flagellum clavate, the funicle joints minute, 

 widening towards the club, not longer than wide, the three last 

 joints wider than long, the club enlarged; scutellum with a small 



tuft of bristles towards apex Apterencyrtus, Ashm., g. n. 



Apterencyrtus pulchricomis, new species. — 9 . Length, 0.6 mm. 

 Head dark blue, smooth, impunctate, the eyes whitish, converging slightly 

 anteriorly ; thorax aeneous black, the mesonotum clothed with sparse, 

 silvery-white hairs, the scutellum shagreened, with a small tufc of black 

 bristles, the hind angles of the metathorax acute, the abdomen smooth, 

 black, but with an ?eneous tinge in certain lights ; antenna3 tricoloured, 

 the scape and pedicel beneath, and the funicle snow-white, the scape above 

 towards apex and the pedicle above brown, the club black ; the front and 

 middle legs are snow-while, but the middle femora just before apex and 

 the middle tibia^ near the base have a narrow brown annulus ; the hind 

 coxpe, and apical two-thirds of the hind femora are metallic brown-black, 

 while the trochanters, base of femora and rest of the legs are snow-white. 

 Type.— No. 8120, U. S. N. M. 

 Manila. (Father Brown.) 



Family LXXI. — EuLOPHiD.t:. 

 Subfamily III. — Tetrastichinae. Tetrastichoides, Ashmead. 

 Tetrastichoides Manilensis, new species — % . Length, i mm. Head 

 and thorax blue-black, impunctate, the axilla and the abdomen aeneous 

 black; the scape of the antennae and the legs, except the coxa^ and the 

 basal two-thirds of the hind legs, which are aeneous black, are yellowish- 

 white, the flagellum is brown-black, subclavate, finely pubescent, the 



