ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[Feb., '11 



Description of Male. Length 1.4 mm., width across abdomen .42 mm. 

 Yellow brown in color with conspicuous dark chestnut markings. 



Head. Length .34 mm., width .4 mm., thus being unusually long in 

 comparison with its width. Front slightly convex with three short 



spines on either side and two short 

 hairs on the angles where the front 

 merges into the diverging sides The 

 prominent ocular emargination is al- 

 most filled by the eye and the last seg- 

 ment of the antennae. Ocular 

 blotches dark chestnut; ocular bands 

 indistinct except where they broad- 

 en to form light brown blotches at 

 their anterior ends. The ocular 

 fringe extends around the angle on 

 to the temples. Temples broadly 

 rounded, occiput concave. Two oc- 

 cipital triangles of dark chestnut col- 

 or connected by a dark band on the 

 occipital margin and extending for- 

 ward. Occipital bands wanting. 

 There are four hairs on the angle 

 before the ocular emargination, one 

 larger than the others ; five hairs on 

 the temple, three long and two short- 

 er ; also two hairs on the occiput near 

 the center. 



Thorax. Length .34 mm., width 

 34 mm p ro thorax lenticular, the 

 anterior margin more flattened than 



the posterior, which latter bears a row of about twelve hairs. Meta- 

 thorax trapezoidal ; very dark chestnut blotches occurring in both an- 

 terior and posterior angles, and the latter angles bearing two hairs 

 and a spine ; also about six hairs on the posterior margin which is 

 straight. Legs pale with a fringe of hairs on the outer edge of the 

 tibia. 



Abdomen. Length .78 mm. Last segment rounded; lateral band 

 of each segment, except the last, with two dark chestnut appendages 

 curving inward, one at each end of the segment, becoming lighter in 

 color in the posterior segments. Very long hairs in the posterior 

 angles of some of the segments. A row of hairs across each segment 

 and numerous short hairs around the posterior margin of the last seg- 

 ment. Transverse blotches slightly darker than general ground color of 

 insect. Genitalia inconspicuous, being only slightly chitinized. 



n. sp. 



