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advice, this was not done. I (|uite agree with previous authors that the 

 assemblage of characters must ally the genus with the Encyrtinse. It is 

 typically encyrtine in appearance. The following are specific characters : 



Normal position : — General color shining l)lack. the dorsum of the ab- 

 domen black, the disk with some yellow ; antennas honey yellow tinged with 

 some dusky : legs and knees concolorous with the antennae, the dorsal aspect 

 of the posterior femur and tibia black ; that of the basal half of the inter- 

 mediate femur dark : most of the anterior femur black ; distal tarsal joints 

 dusky, especially at their tips. Maxillary palpi and the tegula; yellow and on 

 the mesothorax just cephalad of the tegula is a small yellow area ; venter of 

 thorax black, that of the abdomen dusky yellow, darker in the disk. .Across 

 the cephalic margin of the vertex, between the cephalic ends (dorsal aspect) 

 of the eyes from cephalic aspect, between the middle of the eyes along the base 

 of the frons, there is a moderately broad, conspicuous ochreous yellow fascia. 

 Eyes dark garnet ; ocelli inconspicuous, dark reddish with some yellow, the 

 lateral ocelli near the caudal margin of the vertex, the three in the usual 

 triangle, the lateral ones far closer to the eye margin than to each other or to 

 the cephalic ocellus. 



Vertex and mesothorax, including the axillae, moderately coarsely polygon- 

 ally reticulated or sculptured, scaly, the sculpture of both somewhat finer than 

 the surface of the eyes and resembling overlapping scales or shingles ; the 

 scutellum closely, finely reticulated as if finely, delicately, longitudinally 

 striate. Cheeks, ventrad of eyes, longitudinally rugose, as is also the meso- 

 pleura. Eyes round from dorsal aspect. Vertexal carina absent. Scaly 

 sculpture of mesoscutum and longitudinal fine striation of mesoscutellum 

 characteristic. 



Fore wings hyaline, but with a circular fumated spot separated from but 

 directly laterad or apicad of the truncated submarginal vein, the latter bear- 

 ing but from 2-4 large setae, all well separated. Hind wings normal in shape, 

 the discal cilia close as in the fore wing, the marginal cilia absent along the 

 cephalic margin, but moderately long on the caudal margin ; the vein short 

 and broad, yellowish, not reaching beyond the proximal fifth of the wing. 

 Scape of antennae reaching to the yellowish fascia across the vertex ; club 

 longitudinally striate, its joints connate and also connate with the ring-joints. 

 Abdomen normal, the spiracle of the sixth segment conspicuous, bearing 

 about three long setae and one or two short ones; first and second abdominal 

 segments longer than segments 3-6. but not much more so. 



From 18 specimens. 2/^-inch olijectivc. Rausch and Loml) 

 Redesoribed from eighteen females reared bv ^Slv. X. ('languhe, a 

 sttident in the Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Oc- 

 tober 10-14, 1908, from Aulacaspis roscr (Bouche) on the stems of 

 black raspberry, collected by Mr. R. D. ( dasgovv on October 6, 1908, 

 at Urbana, 111. The descriptions were made from stupefied speci- 

 mens, unmounted, later compared with balsam mounts in which many 



