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appear. Small black spot on each ovipositor-sheath near its insertion, 

 tip of same, brown. Legs yellow. 



Male. Aside from sexual characters, resembles female except in 

 being rather smaller, more slender and having a brown patch on each 

 side of the median line of the penultimate abdominal segment. 



Described from many male and female specimens reared 

 during 1910-1912 in the Dept. of Piura, Peru, and at Lima, 

 Peru, from H. minor and Pseudaonidia sp. on various hosts, 

 principally cotton and citrus. Both dry and balsam mounts. 



Type on slide labeled A, 163 3a. Saman (Dept. Piura) 

 1 2-22-' ii Rust 



NEOSIGNIPHORA gen. nov. 



Differing from Signiphora in that body is larger and more 

 slender. Antennae 7-jointed, counting scape as one joint, al- 

 though it is really composed of two joints, the first of which 

 may not articulate with head but which shows a distinct suture. 

 Scape long and moderately slender, first joint nearly one-half 

 as long as second and a little more slender ; pedicel large and ro- 

 bust ; funicle 4-jointed and quite small; club very long and 

 slender, undivided and with several longitudinal keels. Mandi- 

 bles tridentate. Eyes naked. Sub-marginal vein of fore-wing 

 nearly twice as long as marginal. Apical spur of middle tibiae 

 scarcely two-thirds as long as first tarsal joint. 



Type, N. nigra, sp. nov. 



Neosigniphora nigra sp. nov. 



Female. Length, 0.8 mm. ; greatest length of wing, 0.55 mm. ex- 

 clusive of cilia. Antennal scape moderately slender, reaching almost 

 to top of eyes, pedicel a little longer than first scape joint and much 

 more robust, being of a diameter equal to half its length; funicle joints 

 i, 2, 3 and 4 increasing gradually in diameter, the first being very 

 small and the fourth of nearly two-thirds the diameter of club; funicle 

 joints I, 2 and 3 subequal in length, joint 4 from two to three times 

 as long as any of the other three ; club very long and slender tapering 

 to a point, as long as scape, pedicel and funicle joints together and 

 (when seen in broad outline) two-and-one-half times as wide as scape, 

 or a little wider than pedicel ; slightly crescent-shaped. Marginal vein 

 with 5 strong bristles, sub-marginal with two, stigmal with one. Mid- 

 dle femora with strong spine near tip on inner side. Middle tibiae 

 with two spines on outside at base and one nar tip. 



