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ARRHENOPHAGUS CHIONASPIDIS, Aurivillius. 



Arrlu'nophiKjHt^ chiouKspidh, Aiiuvii.mis, Eut. Tiilsk. IX, 18X8, ]>. 143. 



This remarkable encyrtiiie, reared by Aurivillius iu Sweden from 

 Chionaspis salici.s, lias been reared in the Uuited States from J>i((.Hpis 

 rosiv at Kirkwood, Missouri, by Miss j\[. E. .Alurtfeldt, and from tlie 

 same liost at Champaign, Illinois, by Mr. W, G. Johnson. ]\Ir. (Ireen 

 reared it in Ceylon from Fiorinia saprosoma'. 



Genus ANASTATUS, Motschulsky. 



Anastatus, Motschulsky, I^tiul. eutom., 8th ann., 18.">Jt, p. 116. 

 Antujaxter, Walsh, Amer. Eiit., IT, 368 (1870). 



ANASTATUS TACHARDIiE, new species , Howard). 



Male. — Length, 1.5 mm. Dark blue or blue-black; maudibles, tips of 

 palpi, sutures of trochanters, tips of anterior tibijie, and their tarsi, 

 except last joint, pale; basal joint of hind tarsi and tibial spurs white; 

 abdomen beneath piceous, with the sutures 1 and 2 whitish. Head 

 and thorax above tinely. shagreen ed; antennte filiform, pubescent, the 

 fiagellum browu-black, the fuuicle joints subequal, a little longer than 

 thick, 4, 5, and G somewhat shorter than 1, 2, and -3, the scape short, 

 not extending to middle ocellus, blue-black, pedicel rounded, blue- 

 black. Thorax with complete, but not sharply defined, parapsidal 

 grooves. Wings hyaline, the veins brown, the marginal vein as long- 

 as the submarginal, the stigmal and postmarginal veins short, equal 

 in length, the stigmal slightly curved, ending in a short knob. Abdo- 

 men obloug, as long as the thorax. 



Habitat. — Pundulo^'a, Ceylon. 



Tijjye. — No. 32G0, U.S.N.M. One male specimen, supposed by Mr. E. 

 Ernest Green to have been reared from Tachardia albizzia\ 



For the suggestion as to the synonymy of Walsh's genus AntUiaster 

 with Anastatus the writer is indebted to Mr. Ashmead. 



Si^ibfamily EL^^CHISTIjSr^E. 

 Genus EUPLECTRUS, Westwood. 

 Eupleclvuii, Wkstwooi), Lond. Ediii. Pbil. Man., I, 1832, p. 128. 



EUPLECTRUS CEYLONENSIS, new species (Howard). 



Female. — Length, 2.8 mm.; expanse, 0,."> mm. Eesembles closely -E". 

 furnius, Walker (British West Indies). Stout, shining, bristly; pedi- 

 cel of antenna^ with a pair of long, stout bristles at base, and aiH)ther 

 pair, longer and stouter, at tip; mesonotum strongly shagreened, with 

 two strong elongate longitudinal depressions just anterior to tip of 

 scutellum; axilla^ with strong and very broad depressions at articu- 

 lation with scutellum; scutellum nearly smooth, very faintly aciculate; 

 nearly all of thoracic bristles whitish, tli<^ pair next the teguhe black. 

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