NO. 1202. GENERA OF THE ENCYBTINJjl—ASRMEAD. 401 



4. CHEILONEURUS DIASPIDINARUM Howard. 



CMloneurus diaspidinarmn Howard, Ins. Life, VII, 1894, p. 256, female.— Dalla 

 Torre, Cat. Hym., V, p. 241. 



Type.— Cat. No. 1489, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — South Carolina: Liberty Con nty. 



Host. — Ehyncli. : Mytilaspis pomorum Bouclie. 



5. CHEILONEURUS DUBIUS Howard. 



CMloneurus duUus Howard, Bull. No. 5, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1885, p. 17, male.— 

 Cresson, Syn. Hym. N. A., 1887, p. 240.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, p. 241. 



Type.— Gat. No. 2640, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Wisconsin. 



Host. — Ehyuch. : Lecanium sp. 



6. CHEILONEURUS FUNICULUS Howard. 



CMloneurus funiculus Howard, Jonrn. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool., XXVI, p. 148, 

 female.— Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, p. 242. 



Type in British Museum. 

 Habitat. — West Indies : Grenada. 



7. CHEILONEURUS NIGRESCENS Howard. 



CMloneurus nigrescens Howard, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool., XXVI, p. 148, 

 female. — Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, p. 242. 



Type in British Museum. 

 Habitat. — West Indies : Grenada. 



7S. ZAOMMA Ashmead, ne^jv genus. 

 (Type, Encyrtus argentipes Howard.) 



This genus may be at once recognized by the very large rounded 



eyes, which converge above and leave a very narrow linear vertex; by 



the very short antennae which have the club enormously enlarged, longer 



..^han the funicle and many times thicker, the joints of the funicle being 



transverse; and by the clear hyaline wings. 



I. ZAOMMA ARGENTIPES Howard. 



Encyrtus argentipes Howard, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., XXV, 1894, p. 95, female. — 

 Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., V, p. 255. 



Type.— Cat. No. 2723, U.S.N.M.; British Museum. 

 Habitat. — West Indies : St. Vincent. 



74. ADELENCYRTUS Ashmead, new genus. 

 (Type, Encyrtus cMonaspidis Howard.) 



Comes nearest to Zaomma Ashmead. Head in female viewed from 

 in front wider than long with the scrobes deep, semicircular. Antennse 

 short, the flagellum clavate, the club enlarged, but not enormously so, 

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