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Encijrtns plalijcerus Dalman, Svensk.Vet.-Akad. Haudl., XLI, 1820, p. 566. — Nees, 



Ichn. affin. Mouogr., II, 1831, p. 254. 

 Dicellocerns vihrans Menzel, Stettin. Eut. Zeitg., XVI, 1855, pp. 270-271, pi. i. 

 Euryscapus platycerus Forstek, Hyiii. Stutl., II, 1856, p. 35. 

 Encyrtus vibrans Ruthe, Stettin. Ent. Zeitg., XVII, 1856, p. 46. 

 Mira macrocera Fokster, Verb. d. natiii-h. Ver. pr. Rlieiul., XVII, 1860, p. 135, 



female and male. 

 Lonchocerus platycerus Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV, 1875, p. 130, female. 

 Mira macrocera Mayk, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wieu, XXV, 1875, p. 771. female. — 



Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 237. 



Habitat. — Europe. 



2. MIRA SALTATOR Lindeman. 



Eiiryscapiis saliator Lindeman, Bnll. Soc. Natural. Moscou (2), I, 1887, p. 190, 



female ;nid male. 

 Mira saltator Dalla Torke, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 238. 

 Habitat. — Europe: Russia. 



36. SPH^^ROPISTHUS Thomson. 

 1875. S2)ha:ropisthus Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV, pp. 116, 131. 

 (Type, Sjyltaro^iitiiliKS paacuorion Thomson.) 



I. SPH^ROPISTHUS PASCUORUM Thomson. 



Spliairopisthus pasciiorum Thomson, Hym. Skand., IV, 1875, p. 132, female and 

 male.— Dalla Tokhe, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 238. 



Habitat. — Euroi)e: Sweden. 



2. SPHiEROPISTHUS ANNULICORNIS Ashmead, new species. 



Male. — Leugth, l.G mm. Head ami thorax a'sove. aeneous green; 

 scutellum orange-red; protliorax at sides and beneath, mesopleura, 

 pectus and legs, ferruginous; abdomen aeneous bhick, with rigid hairs 

 especially toward a[)ex; auteunaj long, the scape long, slender, sub- 

 clavate, with the pedicel pale ferruginous 5 flagellum subclavate, gradu- 

 ally thickened toward apex, subconipressed, clothed with a short dense 

 pubescence, black, with joints 4, 5, and snow white. Head punc- 

 tate, as seen from in front elongate, about twice as long as wide, as 

 seen from above semiglobose, the eyes slightly convergent above, the 

 vertex narrower than the face anteriorly; hind ocelli rather close 

 together, the front ocellus being more than twice as far from the hind 

 ocelli than the space between them. Metapleura clothed with a rather 

 dense silvery pubescence. Wings hyaline, with a discal cloud beneath 

 the marginal vein and an acuate band just before the apex. 



Tt/j?e.— Cat. No. 4848, U.S.K.M. (Ashmead collection.) 



Habitat. — Florida: Jacksonville. 



3. SPHiEROPISTHUS AURICEPS Ashmead, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.3 mm. Ground color pale ferruginous, the head 

 on vertex and anteriorly to scrobes gold green, mesonotnni and scutel- 

 lum green with a bluish sheen; legs ferruginous, the middle tibiae 

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