232 WILLIAM H. AsHMEAD. 



Hab. — Argus Mountains, Death Valley, Panamint Valley and 

 Los Angeles, California ; Texas and St. Louis, Mo. 



Types in National Maseum. 



Mr, Coquillett bred a single 5 specimen of this species at L<j> 

 Angeles, Cal., from larva of Chrysohothrvs delecta Lee. 



Enchryiiia macalipennis sp. n. 



■^ . — Length 2 mm. (jfjlden green, shagretrje'i : ine vtrttx. occiijui. j>e<iic«^l 

 and sides of scatellam blaisb, or with bluish reflections: a spct on metapleura 

 smooth, violaceous ; three basal joints of middle tarsi and the spar white : ante- 

 rior and posterior tarsi dark bn>wn, rest of legs metallic. Wings hyaline, with a 

 large brownish cloud on disc below the marginal vein : hind femora much swollen 

 and with the apic-al two-thirds beneath, minutely denticulate, as in Haltxcdln. 



Hab. — Santa Cruz Mountains, California, 



Types in National MiLseum. 



Subfamily ExcYRTiyj:. 



EMYBTUS Dalman. 

 Encyrtas mesograptae sp. n. 



J . — Length 1.1 mm. Blue-black ; mesonotnm metallic purplish ; scntellum 

 cupreous. Abdomen aeneous; scaj^e and legs, except as hereafter mentioned, 

 brownish yellow: flagellum dark brown; all coxae metallic, the anterior femora 

 near base, a blotch on the middle of their tibiae above, the hind femora, except 

 tips and the basal half of their tibiae, brown. The funicular joints. ex(«pt the 

 first, are transverse, widening from the second, the first being a little longer than 

 thick. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein dark brown, as long as the stigmal. 



In the male the closely punctate vertex, the finely shagreened mesonotum, the 

 scntellum and the metapleura are bright cupreous; the flagellum is filiform, 

 brownish yellcw. pilose, the jointe about two and a half times as long as thick, 

 the first joint being slightly longer ; the hind femora and the tibiae, except at 

 ba.se and apex, are dark fuscous ; otherwise a£ in 9 • 



Hab. — Jacksonville. Fla. 



Described from .s[jeciraens reared from the puparium of Meaofjrapin 

 polita Say. 



Subfamily Entedonix.e. 



C EOSTEROCERL'S WestwrKKl. 

 Clostero«erus ni;;er -p. n. 



%. — Length ()ji mm. Polished black, the bead sometimes with bluifih metallic 

 reflections; scape, trochanters, knees, tibiae and tarsi, white; middle and hind 

 tibiae with a brownish nnnulus towards base: flagellum fusiform, brown-black, 

 pilose, the funicle JV-jointed, the joints gradually increasing in size and width, 

 dilated ; club :i-jointed. the last two joints closely united. Wings clear hyaline 

 ciliate, the venation pale brownish. Abdomen subrotund. depressed. smo«»th and 

 highly polished, the i>etiole short but dwtinct. fiei-<*nd segment fx-cupying most 

 of the remaining surfa/::e. the foll'«wing '■egnient'- excee^lingly ••hort. more or less 

 retracted. 



