504 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Encyrtus Latreille. 



E. inquisitor Howard. U. S. Dept. Agric, Rept. Entomolo- 

 gist, 1880, PI. 24, Fig. 1. 



Female: length 1.5 mm.; head black with metallic bluish 

 reflections, antennae dark brown, head finely punctate; scape 

 cylindrical, slightly widened toward tip, pedicel twice as long 

 as thick, following joints not as long as thick, subequal, the 

 eighth longest and thickest, club slightly compressed, longer 

 than the six preceding joints combined, elongate-ovate, rounded 

 at tip; mesonotum very dark, with coppery reflections, more 

 coarsely punctate than the head and in addition shagreened, 

 scutel black with purplish reflections ; marginal vein almost obso- 

 lete, postmarginal vein a trifle shorter than the stigmal, at the 

 junction of the stigmal and marginal veins a short hyaline inter- 

 ruption of the brown vein, proximal third of the anterior wings 

 clear, the rest cloudy, hind wings clear; all coxae, femora and 

 tibiae dark brown, tarsi honey-yellow, except apical joint, which 

 is dark brown ; abdomen smooth and shining, black with purplish 

 reflections; ovipositor not exserted. 



It is on record as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan 

 common mealy-bug (Pseudococcus citri). 



E. flavus Howard, Rept. U. S. Com. Agric, 1880, PI. 23, 

 Figs. 7, 8. 



Female: length 1.2 mm.; mostly ocher-yellow ; scape yellow- 

 ish, somewhat widened below, second to fifth joints brown above, 

 yellowish beneath, sixth to eighth, joints snowy white, club 

 black ; metanotum brownish ; basal third of anterior wings clear, 

 middle third dusky and separated by a clear transverse band from 

 the distal third, which is also dusky, with two large wedge-shaped 

 clear spots entering it, one from the anterior, the other from the 

 posterior border of the wing ; marginal vein very dark brown, the 

 remaining veins lighter and more indistinct; all tarsi dusky at 

 tips; abdomen with brown lateral spots on the first and second 

 segments. 



Male : length 0.85 mm. ; mostly shining metallic green ; scape 

 light yellow, flagel dusky; mesonotum with a bronze or copper 

 tinge ; wings clear, veins dark brown ; all legs light yellow, nearly 

 white, tarsi dark at tips. 



