NEW CHALCIDOIDEA—GAHAN 47 
Family APHELINIDAE 
Genus ABLERUS Howard 
ABLERUS PERSPECIOSUS Girault 
Ablerus perspeciosus Girautt, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 9, p. 292, 1916. 
zotus silvestrii CoMPERE, Univ. California Publ. Ent., vol. 4, p. 9, 1926. (New 
synonymy. ) 
The types of Ablerus perspeciosus Girault and Azotus sévestrii 
Compere in the United States National Museum collection have been 
compared and found to agree completely. A. perspeciosus was de- 
scribed from specimens reared from Diaspis pentagona Targioni taken 
at Nishigahara, Japan, and A. silvestrii from specimens supposedly 
reared from Chrysomphalus aonidum (Linnaeus) taken at Shanghai, 
China. 
Two specimens, determined by Girault as Ablerus perspiciosus, are 
in the United States National Museum collection, reared from Deaspis 
pentagona at Washington, D. C., in October 1918 by R. A. Cushman. 
One specimen, also now in the National Museum collection, was re- 
cently received from W. J. Schoene, ef the Virginia Agricultural 
Experimental Station at Blacksburg, Va., who stated that it had been 
reared from D. pentagona but did not indicate the exact locality where 
the scale was taken. 
Family ENCYRTIDAE 
Genus BLEPYRUS Howard 
BLEPYRUS SACCHARICOLA, new species 
This species differs from typical Blepyrus mm some respects. The 
frons is distinctly narrower than in B, insularis (Cameron), the ocellar 
triangle is acute, and the sculpture of the mesoscutum and scutellum 
is distinctly finer and more granulose. In other respects the female 
differs only slightly from insularis. The antenna of the male, how- 
ever, is quite unlike that described for insularis by Timberlake.? Ac- 
cording to Timberlake the funicle in the male of insularis has only 
three joints and the club is very greatly enlarged and solid. In the 
present species the male antenna has six distinct funicular joints and 
a club that is only slightly thicker than the last funicular joint, sub- 
cylindrical, obliquely truncate at apex, and distinctly 3-jointed. The 
male antenna somewhat resembles that in Zarhopalus, but the vena- 
tion is different, and the scape of the female is not distinctly expanded. 
The species is also similar to Huryrhopalus in many respects but differs 
in the shape of the head, in the longer marginal vein, and in the 
antenna of the male. 
2 Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc., vol. 5, p. 171, 1922. 
