364 INSECTS OF SUBFAMILY ENCYRTINE—HOWARD. 
“ Memale.—Antennie with the same number of joints as in the male; 
scape with a rather broad, leaf-like expansion below; pedicel short and 
rounded; flagellum broad, flattened, slightly clavate, the joints of the 
funicle all broader than long, convex basally, concave apically, gradu- 
ally increasing in length and width from 1 to 6; club as long as the 
first four funicle joints together. Faceshort; cheeks scarcely rounded ; 
antennal grooves very sharp; ocelli in a straight line or the middle one 
is very slightly anterior to the lateral ones. Thoracic and wing char- 
acters as in male. Abdomen punctate, turned upward at tip; oviposi- 
tor slightly extruded and pointed upward. 
Tanaostigma coursetiz Howard. 
Re : 5; expanse 4™™; greatest width of fore wing 
0.64"", Head, face, thorax, and abdomen finely, closely, and evenly 
punctured. General color blue-black; palpi white; a narrow black 
band above mouth; just above this a broad yellow-white band extend- 
ing across the face around the base of the eyes to a short distance be- 
hind the genie; above this a narrow black transverse band from eye 
to eye at base of antennze; above this a yellow-white band of about 
the same width, from eye to eye; antennal groove yellow-white; a light- 
yellowish spot behind the eyes and above the first-mentioned yellow 
band, and a narrow line of the same color across occipital margin be- 
tween the eyes; propleura and mesopleura edged above and in front 
by a narrow yellowish band; antenne black; front coxze edged with 
yellowish-white; other cox and all femora and tibiz black, lighter at 
joints; front tarsi dusky; middle tarsi yellow-white; hind tarsi yellow- 
white; last joint black, first joint dusky at base. Thorax and abdomen 
with sparse silvery scale-like pubescence, easily rubbed off. 
‘¢ Male-—Length 1.4™™; expanse 3.2™™; greatest width of fore wing 
0.62"™, General color uniform metallic blue-black. Head, thorax, and 
abdomen very faintly shagreened, shining, almost smooth. Coloration 
of legs as in female. 
‘‘ Described from 3 2,9 ¢ specimens, all more or less mutilated, taken 
from ovaries of Coursetia (?) mexicana collected in the Alamos Moun- 
tains, Mexico, by Dr. Edward Palmer.” 
HEXACLADIA Ashmead. 
The following descriptions of this genus and its sole species are copied 
from Insect Life, Vol. t11, Nos. 11 and 12, August, 1891, pp. 456-457 : 
“Head very broadly transverse, including the eyes, much wider than 
the thorax, the face full convex, the space between the eyes and the 
mandibles longer than the length of the eye. Eye broadly oval, bare. 
Ocelli three, rather close together and subtriangularly arranged. 
Labrum very small, transverse, twice as wide as long. Mandibles very 
small, oblong, truncate at tips, bidentate. Maxillary palpi rather long, 
five-jointed; labiales short, three-jointed. Antennz in both sexes 
