Vol.1] Timhcrlake. — New Genera and Species of Encyrtincie 365 



variable, in P. Jiistrio and P. dactylopii not longer than stigmal, 

 but in an und escribed species considerably longer. (The above 

 characters based mainly on L. dactylopii Howard.) 



Paraleptomastix Girault does not seem to be so closely re- 

 lated, as it is a large, robust form of different sculpture and 

 metallic coloration ; the head meniseiform, the scrobes very short 

 (no facial ridge mentioned by Girault), the antennae slenderly 

 clavate, the funicle joints becoming shorter and thicker distad, 

 the sixth being a little wider than long, the pedicel less than half 

 as long as the first funicle joint ; wings probably much wider 

 than in Tanaomastix, as the costal cell is wide ; stigraal vein 

 curved, longer than the marginal ; the hind legs compressed, the 

 femora narrowly exfoliate. 



The species of Tana^omastix are parasitic in mealybugs of the 

 genus Pscuelocoecus so far as known. In life the wings are held 

 semivertically erect over the back, at least in ahnormis, a habit 

 quite unique among the Encyrtinae. 



Tanaomastix claripennis, n. sp. 



Fig. 7, A 

 FEMALE 

 Head wider than in T. abnormis, the frontovertex about one- 

 fourth wider than long and coarsely alutaceous or granulose ; 

 ocelli large, in an obtuse-angled triangle, the posterior pair about 

 their own diameter from the occipital margin and fully twice 

 as far from the eye-margin; eyes about one-fifth lo?iger than 

 wide, with a fine, sparse pubescence ; cheeks about as long as the 

 width of eyes ; face as wide as long, the antennal scrobes narrow, 

 rather deep and not uniting above, the facial ridge hardly ele- 

 vated. Antennae (fig. 7, A) noticeably less slender than in 

 ahnormis; the scape somewhat expanded below, its greatest width 

 just distad of the middle a little more than one-fourth the length 

 exclusive of the radicle ; pedicel as long as the first funicle joint ; 

 funicle joints about equal, all about twice as long as wide ; club 

 hardly wider than funicle, as long as the two preceding joints 

 and one-half of the next combined, its three joints subequal, the 

 apex pointed. "Wings considerably wider than in ahnormis, uni- 

 formly ciliated ; the speculum wide, not quite reaching stigmal 

 vein nor more than three-fifths of the distance to the posterior 

 margin. Legs as in ahnormis, except that the middle tibial spur 

 and the first tarsal joint are each considerably shorter than the 

 last four tarsal joints combined. Length, 1.0 mm. 



