TWO GEXERA OF CHAiLCID'-FLIES — GAHAOST 365 



is blackish with its base j^ellowish, the ovipositor blackish with a 

 broad whitish band before the apex. The forewing- is strongly in- 

 fuscated from base of marginal vein to apex of venation, hyaline at 

 base and apex ; posterior wing hyaline. 



The only specimen known is the unique female holotype, which 

 was collected at Pernambuco, Brazil, by Albert Koebele and which 

 is now in the United Statas National Museum. 



2. ENCYRTASPIS PROXIMUS Costa Lima 



Encyrtarpis (sic) proxunus Costa Lima, Arch. Esc. Super. Agr. e Med. Vet. 

 [Nlctheroy, Eio de Janeiro], vol. 3, p. 58, 1919. 



A female paratype of this species in the United States National 

 Museum collection differs from hrasiliensis by having the frons dense- 

 ly and finely rugulose, the concave posterior portion of mesoscutura 

 only a little less strongly sculptured than the remainder of mesoscutum, 

 the moseopleuron finely but distinctly sculptured all over and clothed 

 with very short, silverj^-white pubescence over approximately the an- 

 terior two-thirds of its surface, the anterior femur distinctly broad- 

 ened, and the hind tibia compressed and distinctly broader than in 

 hrasiliensis. The paratype has lost its abdomen, but in the original 

 description the ovipositor is said to be about equal in length to the 

 abdomen. The antennal flagellum is entirely black, the scape testa- 

 ceous. The head is entirely reddish testaceous, and the thorax is in 

 large part of the same color but with the whole mesoscutum (except 

 the lateral margins) and the axillae dull dark aeneous, the mesopleuron 

 metallic greenish anteriorly along its dorsal margin, and the mesoster- 

 num blackish. The propodeum is polished piceous, with the apices of 

 the lateral lobes rather densely clothed with whitish pubescence. The 

 legs are fuscotestaceous, with the hind coxae greenish above, the hind 

 tibia dark with a moderately broad white margin posteriorly, the first 

 to fourth segments of the middle tarsus white, the dorsal margin of 

 the hind basitarsus and the three following segments white. The 

 forewing is strongly infuscated from a point a little proximad of the 

 base of marginal vein to the apex of venation, its base and apex hyaline. 

 The hind wing is hj'^aline. The color of the abdomen is unknown but 

 the ovipositor is said to be dark with a j-ellowish band before the apex. 



Described from a female paratype the abdomen of which is missing. 

 The species is said to be a parasite of Pectinophora gossypiella 

 (Saunders) in Brazil. 



3. ENCYRTASPIS LATICEPS (Brues) , new combination 



Anastatus laticeps Brues, Wisconsin Nat. His. Soc. Bull. 5, p. 107, 19(y7. 



This species, the type of which is now in the United States National 

 Museum collection, has a distinct pencil of hairs on the scutellum and 



