PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSE CAT. (i37 



side, somewhat truncate, attenuate from above. Head rather trian<;u- 

 lar from side, eyes proximate, naked, ocelli forming an acute-angled 

 triangle. Mesoscutum with sparse, rather fine punctures, very deli- 

 cately shagreened, shining; niesoscutellum more coarsely shagreened, 

 Avithout punctures and with a few long hairs at tip, not forming a tut'r. 

 ^larginal vein short, stigmal and postuiarginal long. General color 

 metallic blue-green, mesoscutum somewhat coppery. Pronotum, licnd, 

 teguhc, and legs dark honey yellow; mesopleura brown; antennalscaiic 

 and club black, scape brownish near tip; pedicel and funicle joints 1 to 

 4 infuscated, 5 and 6 white; fore wings almost uniformly in fuscated^ 

 lighter at base and tip. 



Type. — Xo. 3252, X'.S.X.^NI. Five female specimens reared from Jjich- 

 tensia kocbcJei by E. Ernest Green, Puuduloya, Ceylon. 



ENCYRTUS CHIONASPIDIS, new species iHowardj. 



Female. — Length, 1.2 mm.; expanse, 2 mm. Antenuic inserted near 

 mouth, scape slender, pedicel as long as three succeeding funicle joints 

 together; funicle joints 1 to 4 subeipial in length but increasing in 

 width; joint 5 twice as long as 4, joint longer than 5 but about 

 as wide. Club swollen at base, pointed at tip, uearly as long as 

 entire funicle. Head with protruding front, eyes well separated, ocelii 

 forming an obtuse-angled triangle; thorax tlat, the wide axilhe meet- 

 ing at tips ; ovipositor slightly protruding. General surface glistening, 

 punctation almost imperceptible. Abdomen as long as thorax, subo- 

 vate, acute at tip; marginal, postmarginal, and stigmal veins subequal 

 in length. General color black, with metallic reflections ; antennte brown, 

 all legs except coxne pallid; wings hyaline. 



Type. Xo. 3253, U.S.KM. Four female specimens reared from CJiic- 



nmpis f/raminis by E. Ernest Green, Puuduloya, Ceyhm. 



ENCYRTUS PLANCHONI^, new species ( Howard.) 



Female.— Length, 1.2 mm.; expanse, 2.8 mm. Body short, stout; 

 thorax nearly plane above ; head elongate, subtriangular, when seen 

 from above; eyes nearly as much dorsal as lateral; ocelli forming an 

 acute-angled triangle. Scape inserted near middle of face, slender; 

 pedicel minute : funicle joints as wide as long, club ovate, a little longer 

 than two preceding antennal joints together. Scapuhe meeting at 

 tips; mesonotum smooth, slightly glistening, submarginal vein short. 

 General color honey-yellow; anterior edge of njesoscutum dark and 

 slightly metallic; sides of mesoscutum and ti}) of abdomen concolorous 

 with this. 



Type.—^o. 3254, U.S.X.M. One female specimen reared from Plan- 

 chonia deUcata by E. Ernest Green. Puuduloya, Ceylon, 



ENCYRTUS TACHARDI.(E, new species (Howard). 



Jirt/e.— Length, 1.5 mm.; expanse, 3.0mm. P.ody stout, thorax well 

 rounded, axilhe meeting at tip; antenuit inserted at middle of face. 



