368 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



83. ARCHINUS Howard. 

 1896. ^rc'/wMMS Howard, Joura. Linn. Soc. Loud., XXVI, p. 155. 

 (Type, Archinus occupatus Howard.) 



I. ARCHINUS OCCUPATUS Howard. 



Archinus occupatus Howard, Jourii. Linn. Soc. Lond. ZooL, XXVI, 1896, p. 155, 

 female. 



Type ill British Museum. 

 Habitat. — West Indies : Grenada. 



34. PARENCYRTUS Ashmead, ne^A^ genus. 



(Type, Parencyrtns hrasiliensis Ashmead.) 



Allied to Epiencyrtus {Encyrtus Mayr and others), but the outer tooth 

 of the mandibles is long, acute; the eyes large, oval, and very hairy; 

 the flagellura long, pilose, the pedicel being fully three times as long 

 as thick, subcylindrical, the first joint of the funicle very long, longer 

 than the pedicel; the marginal vein is as long or almost as long as the 

 stigmal, while the postmarginal vein is much longer than the marginal. 



I. PARENCYRTUS BRASILIENSIS Ashmead, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.6 mm.; to tip of wings, 2 mm. Blue; meso- 

 pleura and coxfe aeneous black; scutellum and ridge of the metapleura 

 with a strong metallic tinge; abdomen ajneous; scape, club of antennte, 

 and legs, brownish yellow; the pedicel and funicle brown; the extreme 

 base of anterior and middle femora blackish or dusky; wings sub- 

 fuscous. 



The head has a few sparse punctures on the forehead and a row along 

 the inner margin of the eyes. The antennae are inserted rather close 

 to the mouth border and widely apart, with a prominent ridge between. 

 The mesonotunv is smooth impunctured, as long as the scutellum. The 

 latter, except the axillee, being shagreened, strongly metallic, and con- 

 trasts greatly with the smooth, blue surface of the mesonotum. Meta- 

 notum very short, the pleura bare, bronzed green. Abdomen sub- 

 triangular, depressed, shorter than the thorax. 



Habitat. — Brazil: Chapada. September. (H. H. Smith collection.) 



3S. MIRA Schellenberg. 



1803. Mira Schellenberg, Genres des monch. Dipt., p. 68. 

 1809. Encyrtus Latreille (part), Gen. Cms. et Ins., IV, p. 31. 



1855. Dicellocenis Menzel, Stettin. Eut. Zeitg., XVI, p. 270. 



1856. Euryscapus Forster, Hym. Stud., II, p. 32. 



1857. Lonchocerus Dahlbom, Ofvers. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh., XIV, p. 293. 



(Type, Mira macrocera Scliellenberg.) 



I. MIRA MACROCERA Schellenberg. 



Mira macrocera Schellenberg, Genres des moucli. Dipt., 1803, pp. 68, 69. 

 Mira nmcora Schellenberg, Genres des moucli. Dipt., pi. xiv. 

 Encyrtus macrocera Latreille, Gen. Crus. et Ins., IV, 1809, p. 31. 



