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Subfamily II. ENCYRTINAE. 



Tribe II. ENCYRTINI. 

 Encvrtus Latreille. 

 1809. Encyrtus Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins., iv. p. 31. 



(i) Encyrtus fuscus Howard. 



1880 — 81. Comys fusca Howard, U. S. Dept. Agric, p. 363, %, $. — 1887. Cresson, 



Syn. Hym. North America, p. 239. 

 1887. Chiloneurus maculatipennis Provancher, Add. Fn. du Can. Hym., p. 208. 



?. — 1898. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., v. p. 242. 

 1900. Encyrtus fitscHS Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii. p. 360. 



J. Length 2 '6 mm. ; expanse of wings 5 mm. ; greatest width of fore wing 

 o'8 mm. Face deeply punctate, yellowish-brown in colour, vertex dusky, cheeks 

 blackish, mouth parts dusky. Scape of antennae and pedicel honey-yellow below, 

 brown above ; flagellum blackish, with quite long black hairs. Collar black above, 

 brownish-yellow below ; mesoscutum blackish in the middle, ocherous at sides, clothed 

 with many lighter hairs ; tegulae ocherous, blackish at tip ; scapulae dusky, very thickly 

 and finely punctured ; mesoscutellum ocherous, with hairs anteriorly, the tuft being 

 black ; metanotum black except postscutellum, which has an ocherous tinge ; peduncle 

 black ; abdomen shining black. Wings as with C. bicolor, the markings, however, 

 being clearer and more distinct, and the veins very black, except at the transverse 

 clear spot ; the stigmal vein is more curved than in bicolor. Front coxae transparent 

 white, femora, tibiae and tarsi honey-yellow ; middle and hind coxae yellowish, blackish 

 at tips ; middle femora yellowish, slightly darker above ; tibiae almost black, yellowish 

 at tip ; spur and tarsi yellow ; claws blackish ; hind femora and tibiae nearly black ; 

 tarsi whitish except last joint. 



%. Similar to the male in all respects except that the colour of the collar, meso- 

 scutum, scapulae, and mesoscutellum is of a uniform clear ochreous. (Howard.) 



Hab. Hawaii : Olaa, in November. — Lanai (3000 feet), in February. 



Tribe III. MIRINI. 

 BoTHRioTHOKAX Ratzeburg. 

 1844. Bothriothorax Ratzeburg, Ichn. d. Forstins., i. p. 209. 



(i) Bothriothorax ittsularis Cameron. 



1886. Encyrtus ? insularis Cameron, Mem. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. (3), 

 X, p. 243. — 1894. Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., v. p. 260. 



