262 Mr. W. H. Ashmead's 



160. Anastatus aurifrons, n. sp. 



$ . Length 5 mm. Head gold-green, punctate or coarsely 

 sliagreened, pubescent, the eyes large, whitish, convergent above. 

 Thorax, legs, mouth parts and scape brownish-yellow ; tlagelhun 

 black. The abdomen, except the two basal segments, blue or blue- 

 black ; two basal segments, the short, subexserted ovipositor and all 

 the trochanters white. Wings fuscous, the basal third hyaline, while 

 across the disk from the stigmal vein is a curved white band. 

 Antenna) subclavate, obliquely truncate at apex, the scape long, 

 extending above the ocelli. Mesonotum deeply impressed posteriorly 

 with a convexly elevated lobe anteriorly, the parapsides flattened 

 above. Abdomen clavate, sessile, about as long as the thorax, the 

 first segment the longest, the first two segments white, the first on 

 dorsum with two large brownish spots, with a median imi^ression 

 between ; dorsal segments 3 to 5 about equal, black, dorsal segments 

 6 and 7 blue, the sixth longer than any of the others, except the first. 

 Ovipositor suljexserted, the sheaths white. 



St. Vincent, Described from a single $ specimen. 



Genus Tanaostigmodes, Ashmead. 

 161. Tanaostigmodes mayri, n. sp. 



^ . Length 0"9 mm. Brownish-yellow ; a transverse line on vertex 

 of head enclosing the ocelli, the occiimt, the pronotum, the mesono- 

 tum, except broadly at sides in front of the tegula), the scutellum, 

 the metanotum and the dorsum of abdomen black. Flagellum with 

 long, sparse, black hairs, the joints 1-5 dentate or with a lobe 

 towards one side. Thorax above shining but microscopically sha- 

 greened. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the veins pallid, the stigmal and 

 postmarginal veins of equal length, stouter than the marginal. 



Grenada — Mount Gay Estate. Described from one ^ 

 specimen. 



Subfamily IL ENCYRTIN^E. 



Tribe I. ECTROMINL 



Genus Anagyrus, Howard, 



In this genus should be placed the two Encyrtines 

 described by Dr. Howard under the genus Cerchysius, 

 namely C. 2^^^^<^^i'nco7-nis and C. terchrator. Both bear a 

 superficial resemblance to the genuine Cerchysms, but in 



