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nothing in the original description which would seriously deny 

 this guess, except the absence of the hairless discal streak on the 

 primaries, and this is obscure in the species about to be described. 



Paraphelinus tomaspidis n. sp. 



Female: Length 0.57 mm. ; expanse 1.15 mm. ; greatest width of fore-wing 

 0.153 mm. General color dull honey-yellow, legs and antennae pallid. 

 Pedicel longer than third funicle joint; first and second funicle joints to- 

 gether equaling length of third, and both set somewhat obliquely when 

 seen from side; club longer than the three funicle joints and slightly hooked 

 at tip, as indicated in Perkins's figure of the antenna of P. xiphidii. Wings 

 hyaline; oblique hairless streak below stigma indistinct and incomplete. 

 Ovipositor well exserted. 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from two female specimens reared from eggs of 

 Tomaspis varia by P. L. Guppy, Trinidad. 



Type: No. 18321, U. S. N. M. 



Mr. Guppy writes that only three specimens were reared, and 

 that the species is extremely active, "running backwards and 

 forwards all the time." 



GENUS PHYSCUS Howard. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



1. Mesoscutellum much longer than wide gracilis n. sp. 



Mesoscutellum at least as wide as long .2 



2. Antennal club concolorous with two preceding sclerites. . .stanfordi n. sp. 

 Club dark brown, preceding sclerites yellow or white 3 



3. Mesoscutum with minute punctures testaceus Masi 



Mesoscutum longitudinally shagreened 4 



4. Light yellow in color with cross banded abdomen flavidus Zehnt. 



Thorax dark brown, abdomen yellow with brown sides, .flaviventris How. 

 Dark in general color .5 



5. Scutellum with 2 light round spots surrounded with a rosette of sha- 



greenings . . fijiensis n. sp. 



Such spots not evident 6 



6. Marginal vein distinctly yellow townsendi n. sp. 



Marginal vein slightly dusky, not yellow varicornis How. 



GENUS PHYSCUS Howard. 



Physcus Howard. Tech. Ser. 1, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. of Ent,, 1895, p. 43. 

 Type: Physcus varicornis (How.), Coccophagus varicornis How. Ann. 

 Kept. Dept. Agr., 1880, p. 360. 



