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A. A. Girault: 



Differing from Paraguaya Girault in bearing a ring- joint and 

 the small wings. Eyes not convergent. 

 Male: Not known. 

 Type: The following species. 

 1. Parooderelloides biguttata new species. 

 Female: Length, 3,75 mm. 



Head and abdomen dark blue, the thorax purple; scape 

 yellow brown, except at tip; legs concolorous; fore wings perfect 

 biit only about a third the usual size, deeply infuscated from bend 

 of the submarginal vein to apex and midway within this area are 

 two white spots in a line transversely one at each blade margin, 

 the cephalic one larger; intermediate knees yellowish. Abdomen 

 as in Lecaniobius. First two segments of abdomen shining, finely 

 scaly, nearly smooth, the rest of the abdomen opaque and densely 

 punctate. Eyes hairy. Antennae 13-jointed, the first funicle joint 

 distinctly longer than the pedicel. 



(From one specimen, similarly enlarged.) 



Male: Not known. 



From one female, minutien mounted, labelled ,,5769". 

 Habit at: Paraguay, San Bernardino. 



Type: Zool. Mus., Berlin, the above specimen and a slide 

 with the appendages. 



Encyrtini. 



Aprionomastix new genus. 



Female: Like Prionomastix Mayr but the antennae 11- 

 jointed, the postmarginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal, 

 the fore wing with a fuscous cross-band, otherwise hyaline. Tibial 

 spurs of hind legs very unequal. Pedicel subequal to the first 

 funicle joint. Mandibles with very fine teeth toward apex, there 

 terminating in a larger tooth-like projection (laterad). Propodeum 

 smooth, without carinae, pubescent laterad. Axillae meeting 

 inwardly. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Aprionomastix fasciatipennis new species. 



Female: Length, 2,25 mm. 



Black blue, the propodeum shining; a broad brownish stripe 

 across the fore wing from the marginal and postmarginal veins, 

 its proximal margin entire but the opposite margin convexed, 

 emarginate caudad; head and thorax with a dense scaly sculpture; 

 cephalic legs entirely yellow, the intermediate the same but the 

 coxae, the femora above, and most of the tibiae and the distal 

 half of the tarsi metallic bluish, the proximal half of the tarsi 

 whitish;,; posterior legs^wholly metallic blue, also the antenna 

 except the scape which is brown yellow like the cephalic legs. 

 Face more or less brownish below the eyes. Pedicel suffused with 



