No. 2299. INDIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA—GAHAN. 519 



deep, coarsely punctate laterally, coriaceous medially, bounded by 

 coarse carinae which meet in a curve behind the front ocellus and 

 which are weaker below the eyes; vertex sloping and not separated 

 from the occiput; cheeks separated from, face by a smooth carinate 

 ine; antenna 11-jointed, slender, separated at base by a strong keel; 

 scape and pedicel as well as the funicle and club opaque; pedicel about 

 twice as long as the subquadrate third joint and very slightly shorter 

 than or subequal to the fourth joint; joints beyond the fourth grad- 

 ually shortening, the tenth subquadrate and very slightly longer than 

 the third; club solid, conic ovate and about twice as long as the tenth 

 joint ; pronotum with coarse thimble-like punctures, its sides separated 

 from the declivitous anterior portion by a sharp carina which fades 

 out dorsally; the posterior margin of pronotum unarmed; mesoscu- 

 tum and scutellum sculptm-ed like the pronotum, the scuteUum cari- 

 nately margined and terminating apically in a broad projection which 

 is bidentate at apex ; mesopleura coarsely longitudinally striate above, 

 smooth on lower one-third; metanotum with coarse longitudinal 

 striation; propodeum rugoso-punctate, with a short, blunt angula- 

 tion just posterior to the spiracle, a distinct carina on each side arising 

 just mesad of the spiracle and extending to the base of abdomen and 

 two parallel longitudinal carinae medially which are separated by a 

 distance about equal to that between the apices of the two teeth on 

 the scutellum; margin of the posterior femora beneath with two 

 broad shallow emarginations and finely denticulate for about two- 

 thirds the length of femora ; abdomen about as long as head and tho- 

 rax, the first tergite the largest; fu-st to fifth tergites above with a 

 broad apical border, finely closely punctate, smooth basally; sides of 

 tergites with much coarser punctures; sixth terete coarsely uni- 

 formly punctate all over; seventh compressed into a keel above and 

 coarsely punctate on the sides only. Male unknown. 



Type-locality. — Coimbatore, South India. 



Type.— Csit. No. 22285, U.S.N.M. 



Described from f om* females labeled : ' ' Parasite from Parasa lepida 

 cocoons. 16-XII-1914." 



Named in honor of Ramakrishna Ayyar, acting government 

 entomologist, Madras Agricultural College, Southern India, from 

 whom the specimens were received. 



Family ENCYRTIDAE. 

 Subfamily Eupelminae. 



Genus NEANASTATUS Girault. 



Neanastatus Girault, Bull. Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 11, 1913, p. 35. 

 Sohndinelleus Girault, Soc. Ent. Jahrg., vol. 29, 1914, p. 22. 



In the opinion of the writer Neanastatus and Solindinelleus are 

 synonyms. The former genus is founded on the female sex, while 



