80ME NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA WITH NOTES ON SEVERAL DESCRIBED FORMS. By A. B. Gahan, Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. In this paper will be found descriptions of nine new species of Chalcidoidea and two new species of Serphoidea together with notes on synonymy, distribution and hosts of several described species. The new species described include one species from Japan and two species from Panama, the remainder being from the United States. Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA. Family ENCYRTIDAE. PLAGIOMERUS CYANEA (Ashmead). Comys cyanea Ashmead, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, 1898, p. 17. Eucomys cyanea Dalla Tokke, Cat. Hymen., vol. 5, 1898, p. 239. Habrolepis cyanea Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, 1900, p. 404. This sjDecies belongs in the genus Plagiomei^s Crawford and is very similar to the genotype species, P. dlaspidis Crawford, if not identical with that species. Only the type specimen is known. This specimen differs from typical diaspidis by having the mesoscutum strongly metallic blue in color instead of bronzy black and the hairs of mesoscutum appear paler in color and somewhat more numerous. Otherwise they appear to be alike. CHEILONEURINUS MICROPHAGUS (Mayr), Cheiloneurus microphagus Mayi:, Vorh. zool. bet. Ges. Wien, vol. 2.5, 1875, p. 745. Cheiloneurus diuspidinarum Howard, Ins. Life, vol. 7, 1894, p. 256. Aphidencyrtus aspidioti Girault, Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 8, 1915, p. 283. Aphidencyrtus aspidioti, var. brittanicus Gikault, Entomologist, vol. 48, 1915, p. 217 (female). Cheiloneurinus microphagus (Mayr) Mercet, Faun. Iber., EncirtiUos, 1921, p. 647. The United States National Museum has recently received through an exchange with Garcia Mercet a female specimen from Fuenter-rabia, Spain, determined by Mercet as Cheiloneurinus microphagus No. 2517. — Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 65. Art. 4. 1
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