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tarsi yellow ; hind femur with a small yellow spot at extreme apex ; 

 hind tibia with a yellow spot a short distance from base and its apex 

 yellow ; wings hyaline ; rest of insect black. 



Male. — ^Length, 3 to 4 mm. Sixth tergitc more transverse than 

 in the female and with more distinct pits ; otherwise like the female. 



The hind tibia basad of the yellow spot is usually black but in 

 some specimens this basal band is reddish. It is always somewhat 

 darker than the yellow spot. 



Type locality. — ^Ayodya patnam, India. 



Type.— C^t. No. 42223, U.S.N.M. 



Four females and four males received from Remachandra Rao. 

 Coimbatore, India, and all said to have been reared from pupae 

 of Nephantis serinopa Meyrich. The holotype female and another 

 female are labeled "Ayodya patnam, S. R. coll. June 28-30-1924 " ; a 

 male (allotype), " Coimbatore, S. R. coll. July 5, 1924 "; two females, 

 " Mangalore, Y. R. Rao coll. Aug. 28, 1925, and October 16, 1924 " ; 

 one male " Cochin, Rao coll. Nov. 18, 1920 "; and two small males, 

 " Samalkot, Godivari district, Mch. 22, 1924, R. N. Chari coll." 



Family ENCYRTIDAE 



APHIDENCYRTUS APHIDIVORUS (Mayr) 



Enoyrtus apMdivorus Mate, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 25, 1875, pp. 712, 



713, and 724. 

 Enoyrtus sMzoneurae Ashmead, Trans. Amer. Bnt. Soc, a'oI. 12, 1885; Proc. 



p. 16 (new synonymy). 

 Encyrtus apMcLiphagus Ashmead, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Ent. Bull. 14, 1887, 



p, 14 (new synonymy). 

 Encyrtus megourae Ashmead, U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Ent. Bull. 14. 1887, p. 19 



(new synonymy). 

 Emyyrtus welsteri Howakd, Insect Life, vol. 2, 1890, p. 247, fig. 53 (new 



synonymy). 

 ApMdencyrtus schisoneurae (Ashmead), apliiMpliagus (Ashmead), megourae 



(Ashmeiad), and tceisteri (Howaed), Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



22, 1900, pp. 399 and 400. 

 ApMdencyrtus inquisitor Girault (not Howard), Can. Ent., vol. 48, 1916, 



p. 342. 

 Aphidencyrtus aphidiphagus (Ashmead) Gahan, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 25, 



1923, p. 187. 

 Aphideiicijrtus inquisitor Gbiswold (not Howard), Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 



19, 1926, p. 331. 

 Aphidencyrtus inquisitor Gahan (not Howard), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, 



1927, art. 4, p. 18. 

 Aphidencyrtus inquisitor Geiswold (not Howard), Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, 



1927, pp. 91-93. 



It was the writer's good fortune in November, 1927, to spend 

 some time at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, 

 studying the important collections of Chalcidoid types of G. Mayi', 



