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and mesosteriium rather weakly sculptured and nearly uniformly 

 clothed with short silvery pile. Anterior femur moderately thickened, 

 broadest a little before apex; anterior tibia a little shorter than femur 

 and slightly thickened; intermediate femur rather long and somewhat 

 flattened; intermediate tibia as long as femur, with a group of four 

 short spines on its apical margin, the calcarium about half as long as 

 the first tarsal segment, which is slightly thickened and armed beneath 

 with a double row of short spines, as are also the second and third tarsal 

 segments ; posterior femur fusiform ; posterior tibia as long as femur 

 and trochanter combined, as broad as femur, strongly compressed, 

 slightly slenderer at base than at apex, the two calcaria distinct but 

 both rather short ; posterior tarsus rather slender and about equal to 

 tibia in length. Anterior wing very nearly three times as long as broad, 

 for the most part denselj' ciliated but with a bare transverse band be- 

 hind the apical half of submarginal vein; marginal vein more than 

 three times as long as stigmal; postmarginal vein subequal to stigmal; 

 posterior wing approximately two-thirds as broad and three-fouiths 

 as long as anterior wing. 



Abdomen a little longer than thorax, weakly sculptured dorsally, 

 more distinctly sculptured on the sides; hypopygium prominent but 

 not attaining apex of abdomen; ovipositor sheaths about as long as 

 abdomen and scutellum combined. 



Type locality. — Montevideo, Uruguay. 



Type.—V. S. M. N. No. 56657. 



Remarks. — Described from one female specimen said to have been 

 reared from ''''NeocoelostoTna material" collected by H. L. Parker at 

 Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1941, under South American Parasite Lab- 

 oratory No. 791-1. 



5. ENCYRTASPIS CALIFORNICUS (Ashmead). new combination 



Tincohius califoriiicus Ashmeiad, Proc. Eut. Soc, Washington, vol. 4, p. 15, 1886. 



This species differs from the genotype of Tincohius {T. citri Ash- 

 mead) by having the ocelli arranged in an obtuse instead of an acute 

 triangle, the frons not especially narrow, the postmarginal vein no 

 longer than the marginal vein, the scutellum with a pencil of long 

 black bristles at its dorsal middle, and the abdominal tergites not in- 

 cised apically. On the other hand, it possesses all of the essential 

 characteristics of Encyrta.'ipis and is accordingly transferred to that 

 genus. 



The species is extremely similar to Encyrtaspis seminifus Gahan, 

 apparently differing from it only by having the frons above the shal- 

 low scrobicular depression very weakly reticulated, the antennal scape 

 reaching to the level of the posterior margin of the anterior ocellus 

 or nearly to the level of the vertex, and the ovipositor as long as the 



