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and tlio apical half, or a little more, of the hind femora, honey-yellow. 

 The middle tibiae are sometimes dusky toward base. Frons with a 

 rather close tliimble-like punctuation; mesonotum nearly smooth, but 

 with a sparsely, vaguely defined punctuation; scutellum shagreened. 



MaJe. — Length, 0.9 mm. Differs from female in being much smaller, 

 narrower, and less robust; the legs are brown-black, with tips of femora 

 and tlie tibia; and tarsi honey-yellow, while the anterior and middle 

 tibifB are more or less dusky or fuscous basally. 



Type.—Ciit. No. 5081, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat . — Australia. 



Host. — Ehyn(;li. : Dactylopius sp. 



Described from 11 specimens, bred from a Coccid, Dactylopius sp,, 

 September, 1894, by Albert Koebele. 



48. PH^^NODISCUS Forster. 



1856. Fha'nodiscus FoRSTER, Hym. Stud., II, p. 144. 

 1856. Discodes F()RSTp:r, Hym. Stncl., II, p. 32. 



(Type, Encyrtus (byieiis Dalrnan.) 



I. PH^NODISCUS ARIZONENSIS Howard. 

 Phcenodh'ieiis arizonensis Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus,, XXI, 1898, p. 248, female. 



Type.—Oai. No. 3853, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Arizona: Chiricahua Mountains; Colorado (Gillette); New 

 Mexico (Cockevell). 



2. PH^NODISCUS CONFORMIS Howard. 



Encyrtus eonformis Howard, Jonrn. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., XXVI, 1896, p. 152 

 femnle and male. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 256. 



Type.—Gi\t. No. 4852, U.S.N.M.; also in British Museum. 

 Habitat. — West Indies: Grenada. 



3. PHyENODISCUS UNICOLOR Ashmead. 



Aphycus unicolor Ashmkad, Ent. Amer., IV, 1898, p. 15, female. — Dalla Torre, 

 Cat. Hym., V, 1898, p. 252. 



Female. — Length, 1.2 mm. Uniformly pale ferruginous, the tarsi yel- 

 lowish, the funicle joints 4, 5, and 6 snow white, the club black, wings 

 somewhat abbreviated, brownish. The head has the coarse, character- 

 istic thimble-like punctuation, while the mesonotum and scutellum are 

 smooth, impunctate. 



Type.— Gat No. 4741, U.S.N.M. (Ashmead collection.) 



Habitat. — Florida: Jacksonville. 



Allied to P. arizonensis Howard, but smaller, i)aler, and readily dis- 

 tinguished by the color of thecoxai and (he abbreviated wings. 



