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specimens nearly uniformly pallid yellowish white. Eyes dark red; 

 ocelli ruby red. Antennae yellowish, the tip (distal third) of the 

 club and a portion of the upper side dusky. 



Belongs to the flavopalliata group and resembles that species in 

 structure; however, it is smaller, the antennal club is shorter and 

 more clavate, marked with dusky and yellow as described. The 

 two species are readily distinguished upon comparison. It seems to 

 be confined to the West Indies. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described, with the same magnification, from the following series 

 of slides from the collections of the Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C: Two shdes 

 bearing respectively one and three females, each labeled "459°. Par. 

 of Asp. personatus on Mango and Guanabana San Juan Porto Kico, 

 Jan. 99. A. Busck." A third slide bearing six females and labeled 

 " ChrysompTialus personatus Comstock on nutmeg, Grenada, Barba- 

 dos, West Indies. D. Morris, July 25, 1899." And the last, bearing 

 seven females, together with specimens of Arrhenophagus cMonaspidis 

 Aurivilhus, labeled " 103e, 103g, 103h. Barbados, Aug. 19, 1910. T." 

 The collector was C. H. Tyler Townsend. The Porto Rican speci- 

 mens were of the light variety; the others all dark. 



Habitat. — West Indies — Porto Rico (San Juan); Barbados (Gre- 

 nada) . 



Host. — ChrysompJialus personatus (Comstock). 



Types. — Cat. No. 14205, U.S.N.M. Six females on a single slide 

 (Grenada, Barbados) . 



Cotypes. — Accessions No. 45091, Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, three females on a single slide (San 

 Juan, Porto Rico, "Guanabana".) 



25. SIGNJPHORA FUNERALIS, new species. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.55 mm.; moderately small for the genus. 



General color uniformly black, slightly suffused with brownish and 

 distinctly metallic on head and mesoscutum,*the metallic coloration 

 being bluish green; antennas and legs nearly concolorous, sooty 

 black, the tarsi pallid yellow. Eyes dark red. Fore wings distinctly 

 fumated throughout, but the sootiness gradually deepens proxi- 

 mad; there at the caudal wing margin caudal of the distal portions of 

 the submarginal vein is a longitudinal clear area, subrectangular in 

 shape. 



Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it including those 

 species bearing short marginal fringes at the apex of the fore wing, 

 namely, nigra Ashmead, australiensis Ashmead and dactylopii Ash- 

 mead, and more closely allied with the first. However, it differs 



