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Family PERILMIPID.E. 



PERILAMPUS NESIOTES, new species. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Above black, with bluish reflections 

 in places, the face bluish or greenish, the pleurae more bluish than 

 the dorsum, the legs blue; face smooth; facial excavation with a 

 carina on each side near eyes, extending downward to about middle 

 of eyes; anterior ocellus at the head of this depression; rear of head 

 circularly striate; mesonotum closely, coarsely punctured; inner edges 

 of lateral lobes of mesoscutum with a broad smooth area; wings hya- 

 line; tarsi whitish. 



One specimen reared from a Prodenia larva at Medan, Deli, Suma- 

 tra, by Doctor de Bussy. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13875, U.S.N.M. 



Family ENCYRTID^. 



SulDfamily EUPELMUNJE. 

 Genus LECANIOBIUS Ashmead. 

 Zalophothrix Crawford. 

 The front femora in the type species of this genus are distinctly 

 swollen, and -the genus will not therefore run where it was placed by 

 Doctor Ashmead in his tables. On this account the genus was over- 

 looked by me and Z. mirum Crawford is L. cockerelli Ashmead. 



S^ibtainily EN C YRTIN^. 



Tribe ENCYRTINI. 



SOP^ENCYRTUS, new genus. 



Mandibles at apex apparently blunt, almost edentate, antennae 

 inserted on the middle of the face, elongate, the scape over twice as 

 long as the distance from insertion of antennae to anterior ocellus; 

 pedicel short, slightly longer then wide; one ring-joint; funicle 



6-jointed, first joint of funicle as long 

 as distance frominsertion of antennas 

 to anterior ocellus, joints 3-6 sub- 

 equal, 2 shorter ; club showing only one 

 joint; viewed in profile, the thorax 

 above greatly rounded, especially the 

 scutellum; axillas meeting medially; 

 Fig. 3.-sopHENCYRTusTowNSENm. AViNG propodeum elongate; marginal vein 



OF FEMALE. SHADING TO SHOW INFUSCATION. 1 ^ & J O _ 



thickened, as long as postmarginal or 



stigmal (see fig. 3 ) ; anterior wings with two infuscated areas ; wings with 



marginal fringes; hind tibia? with two apical spurs, one very small. 



The mandibles in the only specimen are partially covered by the 



labrum and the dentition is hard to see. The general aspect of the 



