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a broadly compressed hind tibia margined with white posteriorly^ 

 These characters, together with the shallow scrobiciilar depression and 

 the strongly exserted ovipositor, place the species in Encyrtaspis in- 

 stead of Anastatus. 



The densely and finely sculptured frons, sharply carinate posterior, 

 one-fourth of scapula, hypopygiuni extending very nearly to 

 apex of abdomen, robust and strongly sculptured abdomen, and 

 the unicolorous ovipositor, together with the more or less dis- 

 tinctive coloration, make this species rather easy to recognize. The 

 ovipositor is distinctly a little longer than the abdomen. The eyes are 

 convergent above, the frons at vertex being about equal to one-third the 

 greatest width of head. The scape reaches about to the level of the 

 posterior margin of the anterior ocellus. The mesoscutum is nearly 

 uniformly finely sculptured and covered with silvery-white pubes- 

 cence. The head and most of the thorax are yellowish testaceous with 

 the mesoscutum except its lateral margins, the mesosternum, the propo- 

 deum, and the hind coxae dorsally distinctly dark greenish. The 

 abdomen is mostly black or blackish, with the base more or less testa- 

 ceous, the ovipostor uniformily yellowish testaceous. The legs are 

 mostly fuscotestaceous, the hind tibia with a moderately broad white 

 margin posteriorly, the middle tarsus (except its apical segment) and 

 segments 2 to 4 of the posterior tarsus white. The antennal scape is 

 testaceous and the flagellum black. The forewing basally is hyaline 

 and bare except for a patch of dark-colored cilia in the proximal angle, 

 medially it is dark fuscous and densely ciliated, while beyond the apex 

 of stigmal vein it is subhyaline and a little less densely ciliated. The 

 posterior wing is entirely hyaline. 



Redescribed from two female specunens (one the holotype) in the 

 United States National Museum, collected at Esperanza Ranch^ 

 Brownsville, Texas. 



4. ENCYRTASPIS ADJUNCTUS, new species 



Similar to laticeps Brues but somewhat smaller, with the antemial 

 scape shorter, the scapulae apparently carinate only for a very short 

 distance at extreme posterior ends (the mesoscutum in the single speci- 

 men before me is somewhat distorted and it is possible that normally 

 the scapulae may be more extensively carinate), the hypopygiuni not 

 extending so nearly to apex of abdomen, and the color, especially of the 

 head, darker. Also very similar to proxhnm but differing in the un- 

 handed ovipositor sheaths and in the darker color of head and thorax. 



Female. — Length 2.6 mm. Head fuscotestaceous, tinged with metal- 

 lic green behind eyes and on lower part of frons laterad of scrobicular 

 depression; antennal pedicel and flagellum black; scape dark testa- 



