Feb., '06] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



6l 



A New Subapterous EncyrticL 



By Charles T. Brues. 



In 1900* Ashmead described as Anusia neomexicana the first 



species of this genus known to occur in North America. At 



this time I have the pleasure of describing both sexes of a 



second North American species from Central Texas. 



Anusia xerophila sp. nov. 



Male.— Length, 1.2 mm. Yellowish ferruginous, legs more yellowish, 

 middle tibiae white. Antennae black, except the scape above which is 

 brown, and the apical three joints, which are snow-white. Head slightly 

 rostriform. Mandibles dark at tips, palpi pale, last joint piceous ; lower 

 part ;of front between the antennae slightly elevated but not carinate ; 

 above finely shagreened, the ocelli forming an equilateral triangle, the 

 lateral pair nearly as far from the eye as from each other. Antennae 

 n-jointed, large and conspicuous, the scape obovoid, flattened, near 



the tip as wide as the eye and longer ; pedicel small, sub-triangular. 

 Flagellum, flattened leaf-like, about three times the length of the scape ; 

 second and third joints widest, wider than the scape, from thence nar- 

 rowed toward tip ; the last three joints closely united, as long as the 

 two preceding. The small joints at the base of the scape are unusually 

 large, the first of them nearly as long as the pedicel. Mesonotum finely 



* Proc U. S. National Museum, XXII, 1202, p. 355. 



