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This species is the color of T. tychii Ashmead, but that species has 

 no large punctures on the face ; T. mayri Ashmead from Grenada 

 described from the male apparently differs in having the face and 

 pleurae largely brownish-yellow and no mention is made of the excis- 

 ion of the sixth joint of the funicle and the funicle is said to have 

 dark hairs. 



COCCIDOXENUS, new genus. 



Mandibles with a sharp tooth and a broad one at apex; the genus 

 runs to couplet 10 in Ashmead's Classification of the chalcid flies in 

 the tribe Ectromini; head thin, the eyes touching the posterior 

 margin; eyes large, prominent, converging above, the lateral ocelli 

 touching eye margins and separated from each other by about the 

 diameter of one ocellus; front ocellus about five or six times its own 

 diameter anterior of the others and not its own diameter from the 

 eye margin, on either side of it ; antennae in the female inserted a little 

 above the mouth parts, but still below the level of the eyes, in the 



male inserted sHghtly above the level 

 of the eyes; in the female the funicle 

 6-jointed, one ring joint, club 3- 

 jointed, the component parts of the 

 club distinct (see fig. 1); in the male 

 the funicle 6-jointed, the joints of 

 the funicle elongate and with a whorl 

 Fig. i.-cocciDoxENus poktoricensis. of hairs near base and one near 



Outline of antennae of female. , . , -n . 



apex; vertex carmate; axulse not 

 quite meeting medially; hind tibiee with two apical spurs; marginal 

 vein almost punctiform, the postmarginal longer, the stigmal longer 

 than the postmarginal. 



This genus difi^ers from Anagyrus by the scape not being swollen, 

 the front narrow with the lateral ocelH touching eye margins, etc.; 

 from Taftia by the narrow front with the lateral ocelU touching eye 

 margins, the antennal fossa not carinate above, the shorter non- 

 curved stigmal vein, etc. ; from Anusia by the scape not swollen, the 

 funicle not compressed, the axillae not meeting medially, etc. 



Type of the genus — Coccidoxenus portoricensis Crawford. 



COCCIDOXENUS PORTORICENSIS, new species. 



Female. — ^Length about 2 mm. Head greenish, with some purple 

 reflections, mesoscutum purplish, scutellum and axillae aeneous, 

 abdomen basally bluish, rest of abdomen aeneous with greenish tints; 

 face closely and minutely punctured, under a low magnification 

 appearmg as finely reticulately lineolate; face along inner orbits with 

 a single row of punctures; antennae reddish-testaceous, with con- 

 spicuous black hairs, the club black; mesoscutum finely transversely 



