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Family I.XVIIl. ENCYRTID.E. 



Tribe I. ECTROMINI. 



TAFTIA, new genus. 

 Plate II, figs. 1 and L'. 



It is interesting to detect ii genus in this tril)c in the Philippines, 

 and that it should prove to be new, although closely allied to AiHKjtjrns 

 Howard, descril)ed from Ce^don. The two, however, may be sepa- 

 rated as follows: 



Lateral ocelli close to the eye margin; scape in female usually Ijroadly coinpressedly 

 dilated beneath, the iiagellum slender, cylindrical; axilhe not quite meeting at 

 inner basal angles; front wings with a hairless line extending obliquely inward 

 from the stigmal vein Anagyrm Howard. 



Lateral ocelli at least their width from the eye margin; scape in female long, sub- 

 clavate, the flagellum clavate, the club much enlarged, the funicle joints a little 

 longer than thick; in the male the flagellum is filiform; axilUe transversely 

 wedge-shaped, meeting at inner basal angles; front wings without the hairless 

 line extending obliquely inward from the stigmal vein; stigmal vein strongly 



curved, the marginal vein short Taftia Ashmead. 



(Type, T. prodenUr Ashmead.) 



This genus is named in honor of the first governor of the Philip- 

 pines, Hon. William H. Taft, now Secretary of War in President 

 Roosevelt's Cabinet. 



TAFTIA PRODENI.(E, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.5 mm. Robust, metallic brown, shagreened; 

 the head in front purplish; the eyes whitish, hair}'; the ocelli pale; the 

 scape and legs are flavo-testaceous; the Hagellum is long clavate, brown- 

 black, the pedicel nearly twice as lon^ as thick, obconical; wings 

 h^'aline, the veins brown. The head is nearly twice as wide as thick 

 antero-posteriorly, as wide as the thorax or a little wider, the eyes 

 only slightly converging above; the pronotum is very short, trans- 

 verse linear; the mesonotum is much wider than long, hardly as long- 

 as the convex scutellum; while the metanotum is very short. Abdo- 

 men broadly oval, sessile, not longer than the thorax, a))ove depres.sed, 

 beneath subcompressed, the hypopygium subprominent. 



Male. — Length, 0.8 mm. Smaller and less robust, the head above 

 and the thorax bronzed green, the head in front and beneath dark blue, 

 the Hagellum filiform, nearly of a uniform thickness throughout, the 

 legs (except the hind legs, which are brownish piceous) are more yel- 

 lowish, with all tarsi white or yellowish-white. 



Type.^C^i. No. 7914, U.S.is^.M. 



Manila. Seventeen female and seven male specimens l)red l)y Father 

 Stanton from a Prod rn la sp. 



