638 HTMENOPTElWrS INSECTS—HOWARD AND ASHMEAD. 



scape not widened ; funicle joints subcylindrical, well separated, each 

 with regular, close-set Lairs not separated into whorls and not 'espe- 

 cially long; eyes distant, marginal vein very short, postmarginal and 

 stigmal subequal; mesonotuin very finely siiagreened, shiniug. Gen 

 eial color metallic hlue-green, scntellum with coppery retiections, outer 

 edge of mesoscutum brownish, all legs, teguLe, and mesopleura coiicol- 

 orous, tibifie a little darker, autenn;^ dark brown, scape and pedicel 

 blackish above, wings hyaline, veins dark l)rowu. 



Tijpe.—^o. 3255, U.S.XM. Two male specimens reared from Tach- 

 ordia alhizzm by E. Ernest Green, Punduloya, Ceylon. 



It is undesirable to describe species of Encyrtime from tbe male sex 

 alone, but on account of the economic importance of the host insect 

 the writer has considered it advisable to give this insect a name. 



ENCYRTUS SOLIDUS, new species ^Howard). 



il/o7e.— Length, 1.5 mm.; expanse, 3.4 mm. Form robust, compact; 

 iibdomen short, triangular, somewhat compressed from sides: axilljf 

 separated at tips; antenuie inserted slightly below middle of lace, 

 scape short, not widened, fuuicle joints thick and closely united, pubes'- 

 cence extremely short and very dense; joints 2 to 5 subequal in 

 length, joint 5 rather shorter, joint 1 considerably longer; club short, 

 less than four and five in length. Head faintly granulate, meso- 

 notum faintly siiagreened. General color black, faintly glistening; 

 antennal scape brownish, pedicel nearly black; liagellum light brown'; 

 all coxjc and femora nearly black, the feinora lighter at tips; front and 

 hind tibiai brown, yellowish at tips; middle tibia^ light yellowish-brown; 

 teguhr browuish; wings hyaline, wing veins dark brown; marginal 

 vein thickened, nearly black. 



Tij2)e.—'So. 3256, U.S.N.M. One male specimen reared from Urio- 

 coccuH rhodomyrti by E. Ernest Green, Tunduloya, Ceylon. 



ANAGYRUS, new genus (Howard). 



^e>«a/e._Mandibles bidentate; antenna^ inserted below middle of 

 face, scape greatly widened below; liagellum slender, cylindrical; ped- 

 icel cylindrical, shorter than first funicle joiut; funicle joints 1 to C 

 subequal in length and width, each one-half longer than pedicel; club 

 somewhat flattened laterally, oval, not quite as long as two preceding 

 funicle joints; eyes distant, faintly hairy, ocelli forming a right-angled 

 triangle; head and mesonotum opaque; scapula- slightly separated at 

 tips; wings with extremely short marginal cilia; marginal vein very 

 short; stigmal moderately long, slightly curved; postmarginal very 

 short; ovipositor slightly protruded. 



j/«7e._ Antennal scape moderately swollen; pedicel triangular, 

 nearly as wide as long ; funicle joints with moderately long, rather thick, 

 pubescence, not growing in wliorls; joints subcylindrical, attached to 

 each other at lower border; joint 1 longest, four times as long as 



