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The posterior tibiae with two apical spurs, one of which is much 
shorter than the other. 
Abdomen round oval with the second segment of ordinary length; 
head and thorax with short black bristles. 
Aeneous; eyes reddish brown, scape of antennae and basal parts 
of tarsal joints testaceous. The ultimate tarsal joints dusky. The funicle 
and the veins of the weings brown. There a cloud below is the stigmal 
vein of the anterior wing. 
Male. Length 1 mm. Antennae 7-jointed (scape, pedicel 4 
funicle joints and unjointed club.) Pedicel shorter than the first funicle 
joints. The funicles joints are cylindrical, descreasing in length. Scape 
dark brown, funicle fuscous. 
Hind femorale stouter than in the female. 
Hab. One female and 1 male reared at Poltava Experiment Station 
from Eriococcus greeni on Agropyron repens. 
From S. cyanea Motsch. differs distirictly by the shorter scutellum, 
smaller size and dark colour. 
Encyrtus subapterus, sp. nov. 
Female. Length 1 mm. Head round, vertex narrow, ocelli forming 
an acute angled triangle, lateral ocelli nearer to each other than to the 
anterior ocellus. Antennae clavate; scape only slightly expanded be- 
neath; pedicel almost as long as the first three funicle joints together; 
first funicle joint somewhat longer than thick, second joint as long 
as thick, other joints broader than long. Club of antennae shorter than 
the whole funicle, three jointed. 
Apterous, only one hind wing developed; most probably as a rule 
there ought to be winged females. 
Aeneus; ovipositor short, scape of antennae brown with metallic 
tint, pedicel light brown, funicle uniformly pale yellow, club brown; 
Fig. 4. Encyrtus subapterus, sp. п. d. Veins of the 
anterior wing. 
veins brownish; coxae and femorae aeneous; trochanters, knees, tibiae and 
tarsi pale yellow. 
Male. Length 0,7 mm. Both mandibles four-dentate, as it was ob- 
served on two dissected specimens. Scape of antennae slender, funicle 
more slender than in the female. Winged, submarginal vein clavate ; 
Revue Russe d'Entom. ХИ. 1912. № 2. 
