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tures of considerable size, but nevertheless much smaller than the diameter 
of the ocelli; the scrobal impression of face smoothish, but with fine 
transverse lineolations; mesoscutum extremely finely reticulate and with 
pumerous seriately arranged setiferous punctures; axillae and scutellum 
more opaque, being microscopically rugulose and with punctures like those 
of the scutum, the seutellum, however, becoming smoother and reticulate 
at apex; abdomen highly polished and with fine seale-like reticulations. 
Pubescence on head and thorax rather thick, but not conspicuous 
because of its non-contrasting color, short and nearly erect on the fronto- 
vertex, larger, coarser, denser and more decumbent on the mesonotum, 
the apical part of scutellum becoming nearly bare, but with a pair of 
longer bristles at apical margin; abdomen nearly bare, but with a sparse 
fringe of moderately long, fine hair at the sides just below the lateral 
margins of the dorsum. 
— Blepyrus at present contains only a single species, as Ash- 
mead’s phenacocci is a typical species of Chalcaspis and must 
be cited in the future as Chalcaspis phenacocci (Ashmead). 
The genus evidently belongs to the Ectromatine group of genera 
notwithstanding the tridentate mandibles, as its relationship to 
Pauridia, Aenasius, Chalcaspis, Zarhopalus, etc., is apparent. 
Considered as a Mirine it is placed fairly well in Ashmead’s 
tables, but Coccophoctonus, a synonym of Blepyrus, seems to 
be more accurately placed. 
The following bibliography of Blepyrus insularis does not 
contain all the references to the species, but it is intended to 
include references to all new names and new combinations. 
The synonymy of mevicanus, marsdem, texanus, and dactylopu 
was established through examinations of the types in the U. S. 
National Museum in 1917. 
Blepyrus insularis (Cameron). Figures 1, 2. 
Encyrtus insularis Cameron, Mem. Manchester Lit. & Phil. Soe. (3) 
10, 1886, p. 243, female (not male). Honolulu, Oahu. 
Blepyrus meaxicanus Howard, Proe. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 21, 1898, p. 234, 
female (excluding male). Monterey, Mexico. 
Blepyrus marsdent Howard, 1. ¢., p. 234, female. Honolulu, Oahu. 
Blepyrus texanus Howard, 1. ¢., p. 235, female. Brownsville, Texas. 
Coccophoctonus dactylopti Ashmead, Proce. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 22, 1900, 
p- 375, female (not male). Honolulu, Oahu (not Australia). 
Bothriothorax insularis Ashmead, Fauna Hawaiiensis, 1, Part 3, 1901, 
p- 321, female (not male). Hawaiian Islands. 
Blepyrus insularis Perkins, Fauna Hawaiiensis, 1, Part 6, 1913, p. evi. 
Fiawaiian Islands. 
