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Coelopencyrtus swezeyi n. sp. 



Ageuiaspis species, Swezev, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Exp. 

 Sta., Ent. Bull. 5, 1907, p. 52, jjl. 6, fig. 6. 



Female : In structure and coloration hardly distinguishable from C. 

 odyncri, but the pubescence on the head slightly thicker and rather longer 

 on the frontovertex, the pleura often somewhat brownish, the fronto- 

 vertex in the typical series from Hawaii strongly metalic purple but in 

 the Oahu series rather duller than in odyncri and inclining to greenish. 



Length: .96 to 1.49 mm. 



Male: Differs from the male of odyncri in having the head a little 

 thinner above or hardly over twice as thick dorsally as at the oral 

 margin ; the frontovertex fully as wide as long with the f rons rather 

 more protuberant ; anterior ocellus much closer to the anterior margin 

 of the frons, the ocelli otherwise arranged the same ; the face with a 

 median carina above the antennae ; the area of differentiated sculpture 

 above the antennal sockets regularly and closely lineolate medially and 

 more irregularly lineolate towards the eyes. Scape somewhat narrower 

 with its outer margin slightly but distinctly arcuate ; pedicel strongly pro- 

 duced on the outer side so that it is twice as wide as long and sub- 

 quadrangular as seen from above ; flagellum much shorter ; first funicle 

 joint thinly discoidal, being very short and transverse, produced upward 

 and also on the outer side into a short ramus; second joint short and 

 transverse but not discoidal, produced on the outer side but not upward, 

 its ramus somewhat shorter than the first ; next two joints about twice 

 as wide as long, the third subproduced laterally; last two funicle joints 

 longer and somewhat wider than the fourth, the sixth about a half 

 wider again than long; club nearly as in odyncri although somewhat 

 smaller. Pubescence on the upper part of the face slightly longer and 

 the tuft of fine, short hair on the pedicel somewhat thicker. Coloration 

 as in odyneri with the pleura and antennae more brownish, the apex of 

 the flagellum becoming distinctly brown. 



Length: 1.05 to 1.38 mm. 



Described from CI females, 11 males (tjpe, allotype and 

 paratvpes) reared from Odynerus nigripennis (Holmgren), 

 Pahala, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1905 (Swezev) ; 2 females (para- 

 types) taken on a rock near an Odynerus nest, Pahala, Ha- 

 waii, Dec. T, 1905 (Swezey) ; 40 females, 8 males (paratvpes) 

 reared from 0. nigripennis, Tantalus, Oahu, Dec. 20, 1908 

 (Giflfard) ; and 5G females, 1 males (paratvpes) found dead 

 in Scelipliron cells occupied by 0. nigripennis, ]\lakiki \^illey, 

 Oahu, Jan. 16, 1916 (Swezey and Timberlake). 



