NO. 2293. PARASITIC CHALCIDOID FLIES— TIMBERLAKE. 173 



yellowish white. Wings hyaline, with a roundish, fuscous spot 

 beneath the apex of the venation and reaching about two-thirds of 

 the way across the disk. 



Male. — Not known. 



Redescribed from one female, Biscayne, Florida, May 17 (E. A. 

 Schwarz), which had been compared with Aslnnead's type female 

 from Jacksonville, Florida, and found identical. 



r?/n^.— Cat. No. 4745, U.S.N.M. 



2. ANISOTYLUS SIMILIS TEXANUS, new subspecies. 



Female. — ^Practically identical with A. similis (Aslunead) in all 

 structural characters. Length of body, (1.62 to 1.80) 1.72; length 

 of head, 0.63; width of head, 0.59; width of vertex, 0.15; length of 

 eye, 0.45; width of eye, 0.29; length of antenna, 1.07; width of 

 mesoscutum, 0.63; length of forewing, 1.57: width of forewing, 0.58 

 mm. 



Frontovertex about zinc orange (R.), the ocellar region infuscated, 

 or even metallic greenish as in paratype a, the rest of the head 

 brownish yellow, but considerably purer yellow at the scrobes of the 

 face; the scutellum and axillae like the frontovertex but a little 

 more brownish, the axillae especially brownish medially, and some- 

 times metallic greenish as in paratype a; most of the pronotum and 

 the underparts of thorax brownish yellow practically concolorous 

 with the head; posterior margin of pronotum and the mesoscutum 

 greenish black with a metallic luster, the posterior corners of the 

 scutum more or less brownish along the margin; tegulae white with 

 the posterior margin brown; metanotum, propodeura, metapleura, 

 and dorsum of abdomen shining blackish brown and with a slight 

 bronzy luster on the abdomen especially at the base, the apex of the 

 last tergite yellowish; venter of abdomen brownish yellow with a 

 bronzy luster and more infuscated medially. Antennal scape yellow- 

 ish brown, the pedicel a little darker, the flageliuni brownish black. 

 Legs brownish yellow, the front and middle tibiae a little more 

 brownish, the liind tibiae blackish brown, the middle tarsi, spur and 

 the hind tai-si yellowish white except the blackish apical joint of the 

 middle pair and the two dusky apical joints of the hind pair. Wings 

 as in J., similis (Ashmead). 



3Iale. — Not laiown. 



Described from tliree females (type and paratypes a to h), the type 

 collected on sorghum heads, San Antonio, Texa ;, June 27, 1908 (C. N. 

 Ainshe), Webster No. 5009; parat3^pe a rearerl from a pupa of 

 Eyperaspis Ugeminata Randall, Austin, Texas, May 25, 1917 (Carl 

 Hartmann), Hartmann's No. 63; paratype h reared from an unde- 

 termined Coccinelhd larva, Brownsville, Texas (C. H. T. Townsend), 

 Townsend's No. 645. 



Type.— Cht. No. 22042, U.S.N.M. 



