l62 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 



Two New Aphelinine Parasites of Scale Insects. 



BY L. O. HOWARD. 



In the course of his almost constant journeying in different 

 parts of the world searching for beneficial insects, Mr. Geo. 

 Compere, Agent of the State Board of Horticulture of Cali- 

 fornia and of the Department of Agriculture of Western Aus- 

 tralia, finds many curious and interesting parasitic Hymenop- 

 tera. Many of these he sends to the writer for determination, 

 and in a lot received quite recently there occur two new Aphe- 

 linines which it seems desirable to name at once. The de- 

 scriptions follow : 



Genus PHYSCUS Howard. 



PJiyscus Howard. Bulletin No. i, Technical Series, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1895, page 43. 

 Type Coccophagus variconis Howard (Annual Report, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, 1880, page 360. 



Physcus flaviventris n. sp. 



Female. Length 0.97 mm. ; expanse 2 mm. ; greatest width of fore- 

 wing 0.3 mm. Somewhat slenderer than varicornis. Head and thorax 

 dark brown nearly black. Abdomen above and below orange-yellow, 

 brown at sides. Scape brown; pedicel and all three funicle joints pallid; 

 club brown, pale at tip. Fore femora and base of fore tibiae brown; 

 remainder of front legs and all of middle and hind legs pallid, tinged 

 with yellowish. Wing veins not colored, transparent. 



Type No. 12,167, U. S. N. M. 



Described from two female specimens reared by George 

 Compere from Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask, Manila, P. I. 



Genus PERISSOPTERUS Howard. 



Perissopterus Howard. Technical Series No. i, Bureau of Entomo- 

 logy, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1895, page 20. Type Aphclinits 

 pulchellns Howard, Annual Report, U. S. Dept. Agric., 1880 

 page 356. 



Perissopterus earnest n. sp. 



Female. Length 0.81 mm.; expanse 1.83 mm.; greatest width of 

 fore-wing 0.198. Resembles Perissopterus jai'cnsis Howard (Techni- 

 cal Series No. 12, Part IV, 1907, page 88), but differs in having the 

 tip of the first tarsal joint of the middle legs yellow and the fourth 



