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lineolate; scutellum finely reticulately lineolate; both with setigerous 

 punctures bearing long black hairs; legs yellowish, middle and hind 

 coxae brown; wings hyaHne; sheaths of ovipositor extending slightly 

 beyond tip of abdomen. 



Male. — Length about 1.15 mm. Similar to the female, but mostly 

 aeneous, the head greenish-blue, the pleurss and the base of the 

 abdomen with some greenish reflections; scape testaceous, rest of 

 antennas light brown. 



Habitat. — San Juan, Porto Rico. 



Many specimens reared from "the wax seale" by W. V. Tower. 



Type.— Csit. No. 15093, U.S.N.M. 



ANASTATUS FORMOSANUS, new species. 



Female. — Length about 2.75 mm. Head and thorax varying tints 

 of blue and green, with the portions of the mesoscutum with thimble- 

 Hke punctures bronzy; face roughened, around ocellar triangle finely 

 reticulately lineolate; oceUi in an equilateral triangle, the lateral 

 ocelh about half the diameter of an ocellus from the eye margin ; scape 

 reddish, pedicel green, rest of antennsB dark brown; fiirst joint of 

 funicle longer than the pedicel; scutellum, axillas, and anterior ele- 

 vated median portion of mesoscutum with thimble-Uke punctures, 

 rest of mesoscutum finely lineolate, the lines becoming obsolete toward 

 rear; median portion with thimble-Hke punctures fully three times 

 as long as from apex of this area to the tip of the mesoscutum; wings 

 dusky with a hght stripe near base and one about the middle of the 

 marginal vein; marginal vein about twice as long as the postmarginal 

 vein, this about twice as long as the stigmal; legs brown, with metallic 

 tints and the coxas green or bluish, the middle tibiae whitish; abdomen 

 finely reticulated, with a whitish band near base. 



Male. — Length about 2 mm. Green, the scape and pedicel testa- 

 ceous, rest of antennae brown; pedicel not longer than broad; head 

 and mesoscutum reticulately lineolate, the latter without thimble- 

 Hke punctures; wings hyaline, marginal vein only slightly longer than 

 the postmarginal; stigmal about half as long as the postmarginal; 

 femora and hind tibiae brown with green tints, front and middle tibiae 

 and all tarsi whitish; abdomen aeneous. 



Habitat. — Taihoku, Formosa. 



Bred from the eggs of Biprorulus bibax June, 1911, by T. Shiraki 

 and sent by him under his No. 106 (female) and 108 (male). 



Type.— Cat. No. 15103, U.S.N.Iil. 



This species somewhat resembles A. japonicus Ashmead, but that 

 species has, in the female, the portion of the mesoscutum with 

 thimble-hke punctures only about twice as long as the portion to the 

 rear of it and the abdomen without the transverse band ; in the male 

 the scape is metallic and the middle tibiae are dark. 



