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Type.—Ca^t. No. 14583, U.S.N.M. 



Material received from the Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, under note number, Hopkins U. S. No. 

 8574, Josef Brunner, collector; reared from Pissodes, species. 



Paratypes in the male sex show the propodeum as in the type female. 



Tliis species differs from C. colon and allies in the coarse scuplture 

 of the face and in the punctures of the metanotum. 



The species is named after the collector. 



Family ENCYRTID^E. 



Tribe ETJPELMINI. 

 CERAMBYCOBIUS TOWNSENDI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 4 mm.; sheaths of ovipositor exposed about 

 1 mm. Head and thorax bronzy, in places somewhat greenish; abdo- 

 men more aeneous; scape reddish- testaceous, rest of antenna? dark 

 brown; pedicel about as long as the first joint of the funicle; lower 

 half of face rugoso-punctate, the upper part lineolate; above anterior 

 ocellus becoming closer and transverse; lateral ocelli less than their 

 own mdth from eyes and slightly farther from each other than from 

 the anterior ocellus; median lobe of mesoscutum transversely rugulose, 

 back of this reticulated with fine raised lines; lateral lobes along ele- 

 vations very finely reticulated, the outer part almost as coarsely 

 reticulated as the median area of the mesoscutum; axillas and scutel- 

 lum finely reticulated; postmarginal vein about as long as the 

 stigmal, about one-fourth as long as the marginal; legs rufo-testa- 

 ceous, the coxae and the anterior and posterior femora except tips 

 metallic greenish; tarsi whitish; abdomen finely reticulated; seg- 

 ments 1-4 deeply incised medially, segment 5 rounded at apex; 

 sheaths of ovipositor with a median white band. 



Male. — Length about 2.5 mm. Blue-green with some bronzy 

 reflections; in sculpture largely similar to the female, but with the 

 face below with thimble-like punctured; above antennal fossa finely 

 reticulated; antennse entirely dark, the scape and pedicel blue green; 

 first joint of funicle longer than pedicel; median lobe of mesoscutum 

 at rear with sculpture like that of female; rest of mesoscutum rugu- 

 lose, the rugulog more or less transverse; legs blue-green, the anterior 

 tibiae and all the tarsi testaceous. 



Habitat. — Department of Piura, Peru. 



Host. — Anthonomus vestitus. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14615, U.S.N.M. 



Type female reared from cotton squares; allotype male reared from 

 the Peruvian cotton-square weevil, Anthonomus vestitus , by Prof. C. H. 

 T. Townsend and sent under his number 795° 3d^ Paratypes from 



