Vol. XXVl] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 75 



Aphelinus quaylei sp. nov. 



9. Length, 0.81 mm.; expanse, 1.41 mm.; greatest width of fore- 

 wing, 0.21 mm. 



Antennal scape long and slender, reaching to top of head, somewhat 

 compressed laterally ; pedicel one-third as long as scape and of same 

 width as latter when the same is seen in broadest outline (i. e., side 

 view), increasing gradually in diameter from proximal to distal end; 

 funicle joints taken together are just a shade more than half as long 

 as the pedicel and of the same diameter as the latter at its widest point, 

 first funicle joint slightly longer than the second and the division be- 

 tween these two joints oblique, as is also that between the second 

 funicle joint and the penultimate club joint; the inner side of each 

 funicle joint is longer than the outer side while the opposite is true 

 of the penultimate club joint, thus making each of these three joints 

 somewhat trapezoidal in outline; penultimate club joint about three- 

 fourths as long as the pedicel and a trifle greater in diameter ; last 

 antennal joint more or less compressed laterally, at least three times 

 as long as preceding joint (sometimes three and one-half times as 

 long) and about one-third wider than the same (club seen in broad 

 outline), of nearly equal cross section throughout its length, only 

 tapering abruptly to a blunt point from a place very near the distal 

 end. Club with a few longitudinal keels, the two joints being dis- 

 tinctly separated by a well-defined constriction. Antennae moderately 

 hairy throughout. 



Eyes faintly hairy. Head and rest of body most closely resembling 

 that of A. capitis n. sp. described above, except that the abdomen is 

 naked, or at most, bears a very few very inconspicuous hairs on the 

 edges of one or two segments. 



Wings densely ciliated, all cilia being unusually long. On the fore- 

 wing the discal cilia proximad to the hairless streak are fully twice a:; 

 long as the others and are arranged in four, or at most five rows. 



Color : Head brownish yellow to orange yellow, sometimes with a 

 pinkish cast; eyes, dark garnet red; ocelli, dark red; antennae, con- 

 colorous with rest of body which is of a lemon yellow throughout, 

 sometimes deepening to canary yellow on the dorsum ; wings hyaline 

 except for a small, faint fuscous patch on the forewings in the clear 

 space between the insertion of the wing and the first discal cilia. 

 Wing veins from nearly hyaline to lemon-colored. 

 $ . Unknown. 



Described from many female specimens reared by tbe writer 

 at Lima, Peru, and throughout the Department of Piura, Peru, 

 from Pseiidaonidia articiilatus, Hemichionaspis minor and 

 Aspidiotus canielliae on various hosts. Also reared by P. H. 



