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pedicel; reniaining- joints gradually decreasing in length; axilla? meet- 

 iiiy at tips; genitalia half as long as abdomen. 



liesenibles in many respects 1;'».vcy(j)».v, Daldbom (=.7>/^/o6Y/r.s/.s, Fots- 

 ter); but differs in position of ocelli, in the unlengtliened stigmal vein, 

 in tlie somewhat smaller but not expanded male sca])e, and in other 

 lesser details. 



ANAGYRUS GREENI, new species (Howard). 



Female. — Length. 2 mm.; expanse, 4.1 mm. Head and mesouotum 

 strongly shagreened and furnislied with veiy short, close pile; meso- 

 l)leura with a distiuct longitudinal striation. General color dull red- 

 dish-yellow; scape black, whitish at tip; pedicel black, whitish at tip; 

 tirstfunicle Joint black, remaining funicle joints and club silvery white; 

 club with a yellowish shade at tip; cheeks behind eyes black; mandi- 

 bles black at tip; metanotum and abdomen dusky or nearly black: legs 

 pallid; wings hyaline. 



Male. — Resembles female in sculpturing. Color l)lack; mesopleuia 

 dark fuscous; legs a little darker than female. 



Types. — Iso. 3257, U.S.X.^M. Five females and four males, reared 

 from MaslxeUia zonata by E. Ernest Green, Punduloya, Ceylon. 



ANICETUS, new genus (Howard). 



Female. — Belongs to the group of genera characterized by enormous 

 laterally develoi)ed antenna-, viz, Cera.pterocerus, Fusemion, Mira^ Anu- 

 ria, and Rileya. Eyes dorsal, rather close together, ocelli at the angles 

 of a right-angled triangle; face strongly concave, with a very marked 

 transverse dorsally arched carina at front of eyes; antennal scape 

 reaches frontal arch, gradually widened and exfoliated, inserted slightly 

 below middle of face; the six funicle joints all short and rapidly widen- 

 ing from the narrow pedicel, all subequal in length and all tog(-ther 

 shorter than club; club itself obliquely truncate from tip to base; eyes 

 hairy; mesouotum slightly rounded; axilhe narrow, meeting at tii)s; 

 ovipositor just showing; wings nearly uniformly cloudy; marginal vein 

 shorter than stigmal, somewhat thickened; the cilia below bend of sub- 

 marginal vein longer than elsewhere; all tarsi short and rather stout; 

 spur of middle tibiie stout and a trifle longer than first tarsal joint. 



ANICETUS CEYLONENSIS, new species (Howard). 



Female. — Length, 1.8 mm ; expanse, 4 mm. Face below carina densely 

 shagreened, with a well-rounded longitudinal intra-antenual carina; 

 antennal scape faintly shagreened, with faint brownish pile; mesouo- 

 tum very delicately shagreened, somewhat lustrous, especially on meso- 

 scutum; pile faint and brownish. General color dark honey-yellow, 

 with faint purplish luster on inesoscutum, vertex, and sides of first seg- 

 ment of abdomen. Antenna* brownish toward tip, middle and hind 

 tibia' with a dark brown dot on outer middle and another at base: first 

 tarsal joint of hind legs brownish; middle tibia' with distinct bristles 



