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just beyond the apex, the fifth joining the posterior margin at the 



distal fourth, its branch near the basal third ; membrane sparsely clothed 

 with fine hairs. Halteres presumably yellowish transparent, coxae yel- 

 lowish, femora and tibiae pale yellowish straw, tarsi slightly darker. 

 Claws long, slender, evenly curved, simple, the pulvilli a little shorter 

 than the claws. Genitalia ; basal clasp segment rather long, broad, 

 tapering to a narrowly rounded apex; terminal clasp segment long 

 and tapering slightly to an obtusely rounded apex. Dorsal plate and 

 other minor organs indistinct in the preparation. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae about as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, pale yellowish, 14 segments ; the first broadly obconic, 

 the second somewhat produced, broadly fusiform, the others cylindric, 

 the third and fourth slightly fused; the fifth with a stem about 1-5 

 the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which latter has a 

 length nearly 2% times its diameter, the membrane thickly dotted 

 with chitinous points, with a thick sub-basal whorl of long, stout, 

 curved setae, and a scattering subapical band of shorter curved setae ; 

 low circumfili occur near the basal third and apically ; terminal segment 

 strongly produced, the distal enlargement with a length about four 

 times its diameter and distally tapering to a narrowly rounded apex. 

 Palpi quadriarticulate ; the first segment irregularly fusiform ; the 

 second narrowly oval and half longer than the first; the third half 

 longer than the second, more slender; all rather thickly clothed with 

 coarse setae. Colorational characters about as in the opposite sex, 

 except that the abdomen appears to be a fuscous greenish yellow and 

 the posterior margins of the segments, especially the apical ones, are 

 more thickly clothed with coarse setae; tarsal characters as in the 

 opposite sex. Ovipositor yellowish, probably nearly as long as the body 

 when extended, the terminal lobes very long, slender, having a length 

 fully five times the width and tapering to a subacute apex bearing a 

 few short, stout setae subapically. 



Described from a number of specimens recently mounted 

 in balsam. 



Types, C. 1331, deposited in the U. S. National Museum and 

 New York State Museum. 



PHENACOCCUS GOSSYPII. Some time ago Prof. C. F. Baker sent me 

 this species on Jacobinia coccinca, from Santiago dc las Vegas, Cuba. 

 Both locality and food-plant are new. T. D. A. COCKF.RELL. 



MR. HERMANN ROLLE, of Berlin, Germany, has published a number of 

 lists and price catalogues of Lcpidoptera and Coleoptera. These will be 

 found useful to both the collector and the systematic worker. 



