No. 2299. INDIAN PARASniC HYMENOPTERA—GAHAN. 521 



in a comb of short black spines, middle tibial spur as long as the 

 three basal joints of tarsi combined, the basal joint of tarsus with a 

 single row of black spines beneath; abdomen slender, distinctly longer 

 than the head and thorax, subcompressed and conical, the ovipositor 

 sheaths barely showing at apex. General color light orange-yellow; 

 antennae, vertex and frons, transverse blotch on the occiput, pos- 

 terior margin of pronotum medially more or less, tegulae apically, 

 scutellum, posterior femora and tibiae, and apical four joints of the 

 fore and middle tarsi brownish-testaceous or fuscous; basal joint of 

 hind tarsi white, apical four joints black; abdomen with two broad 

 blackish bands, one some distance before the middle, the other 

 before the apex; sometimes with an obscure brownish band near 

 base and another between the two blackish bands. Male unknown. 



Type-locality. — Coimbatore, South India. 



Type.— Cat. No. 22286, U.S.N.M. 



Described from four females labeled: "Parasite from galls on 

 Ischaemum ciliare. Y. R., collector, 25-XI-1915." Oneofthepar- 

 atypes has lost the abdomen. Antenna of the type mounted on 

 Hymenoptera slide No. 883, U.S.N.M. 



Subfamily Encyrtinae. 



APHYCUS FUSCIDORSUM, new species. 



In Timberlake's key to the species of this genus, this species runs 

 best to coquillettii Howard, but differs from that species in antennal 

 characters, as well as in the color of mesonotum and antennae. Could 

 also be run to alberti, but differs in color of mesonotum and legs as 

 well as in the antennae. 



Female. — Length, 0.8 mm. Front and vertex not quite twice as 

 long as broad and granularly opaque; ocelli in an acute angled tri- 

 angle, the posterior pair about one-fourth their own diameter from 

 the eye-margin; antennal scrobes deep and rather narrow, the frons 

 prominent. Scape widest at about the middle, one-third as broad as 

 long; pedicel shorter than the first two funicle joints combined; first 

 four funicle joints subequal and fully as long as broad or a little longer 

 than broad, the fifth and sixth joints subequal and subquadrate and 

 wider than the fourth; club ovate, a little broader than the funicle 

 and about equal in length to the three preceding funicle joints com- 

 bined. Wings closely uniformly ciliated, not broad; oblique hairless 

 streak interrupted posteriorly; mesoscutum and scutellum finely 

 sculptured, opaque. Frons and vertex brownish yellow; dorsal por- 

 tion of pronotum whitish with a brown dot at each lateral angle; 

 remainder of dorsum of thorax and abdomen dark fuscous except that 

 the margins of scutellum and a broad margin on abdomen are pale 

 yellowish; the mesoscutum and scutellum covered with fine whitish 



