1909] GIRAULT —CHALCIDOID PARASITES Tee 
funicle 2; funicle joints 4—6 subequal, gradually widening, subglobose; club 3-jointed, 
conical. Antennae 11-jointed, moderately pubescent. Scrobes oval. 
Face with a metallic green lustre, sheened, beneath the eyes laterad of the 
scrobes with a number of large scattered punctures. Eyes dark garnet, prominent; 
ocelli rather large, in a triangle, the lateral ones near the eye margin; vertex also 
bearing moderately large scattered punctures. ‘Thorax delicately sheened, with 
similar punctures; the mesoscutum bearing rather coarse setae, which are short 
however. Pleura delicately longitudinally rugulose. Abdomen with delicate 
polygonal sculpture. ‘Tegulae prominent, concolorous. Ovipositor inconspicuous. 
Mesothorax and scutellum robust, the latter similarly sculptured. Axillae not quite 
approximate or confluent. 
Male: — Length, 1.3 mm. The same, smaller. Antennae paler, dusky, 
subplumose or feathery. Anterior and intermediate tarsi pallid; posterior tarsi 
white, including tips of tibia; the infuscation of the wings absent. Antennae 9- 
jointed, filiform, their funicle joints long and slender and constricted at the middle, 
inserted in the middle of the face. Scape short and slightly dilated, darker, thrice 
the length of the pedicel, the latter short, conical; funicle joints 1-6 subequal, cylin- 
drical, uneven, and over twice the length of the pedicel; all, including the club, bearing 
sparse, long, soft setae, and they are somewhat narrowed and lengthened distad; 
g, 
club single, similar to the funicle joints, but one-third longer, and tapering distad. 
Mandibles bidentate, one tooth broad and nearly truncate, but with a slight emargi- 
nation at the centre of the apical margin; the other tooth obtuse and narrower. 
Genitalia long. (-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb.) 
Described from 23 c\’s, and 12 reared June 9th, 10th, 15th and 20th, 1908, 
from overwintered females of Eulecanium nigrofasciatum (Pergande) on peach, in 
the insectary of the office of the State Entomologist of Illinois. 
Halhitat: — Carbondale, Ilinois (L. M. Smith). 
Types: — Accession Nos. 37537, 37546 and 37550, Illinois State Laboratory 
of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, 5 ’s, 12, tagmounted. 
Cotype: — No. 12011, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., 4 males, 
tagmounted. 
Tribe Mirinz. 
2. Aphycus stomachosus species nova. 
Normal position. 
Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. Moderate to small for the tribe. 
General color, dark lemon yellow, with a tinge of greenish, the dorsum of the 
