﻿CHALCID-FLIES 
  OF 
  GENUS 
  PSEUDAPHYCl'S 
  (iAHAN 
  327 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  I-/en«rth 
  O.S'2 
  mm. 
  Frontovertox 
  very 
  dilute 
  orange 
  yellow, 
  

   its 
  entire 
  surface 
  uniformly 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  fine 
  but 
  perfectly 
  

   distinct 
  facetlike 
  punctures. 
  In 
  all 
  other 
  respects 
  apparently 
  agree- 
  

   ing 
  with 
  the 
  foregoing 
  description 
  of 
  wrrar?As 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  description 
  

   of 
  that 
  species 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  frontovertcx 
  will 
  serve 
  for 
  this 
  species 
  

   also. 
  

  

  Mall. 
  — 
  The 
  head 
  is 
  gone 
  from 
  the 
  single 
  male 
  specimen 
  received 
  

   so 
  that 
  the 
  characters 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  are 
  unknown. 
  With 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  

   other 
  characters 
  this 
  male 
  seems 
  to 
  differ 
  in 
  no 
  significant 
  respect 
  from 
  

   the 
  male 
  of 
  meracus. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  North 
  Bergen, 
  N. 
  J. 
  

  

  Type.—V.S.^.^l. 
  No. 
  57331. 
  

  

  /ifmarl.-s. 
  — 
  Described 
  from 
  a 
  unique 
  female 
  and 
  one 
  headless 
  male 
  

   reared 
  in 
  November 
  1938 
  by 
  George 
  Rau 
  from 
  Pseudococcus 
  com- 
  

   ^tocki 
  (Kuwana). 
  

  

  The 
  frontovertcx 
  in 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  forms 
  studied 
  is 
  granulosely 
  sculp- 
  

   tured 
  and 
  mat, 
  with 
  little 
  or 
  no 
  indication 
  of 
  distinct 
  separate 
  alveoli 
  

   or 
  punctures 
  even 
  under 
  the 
  higher 
  magnifications 
  of 
  a 
  binocular 
  

   microscope. 
  In 
  anf/eh'cus, 
  ahstru^ii-s, 
  meraou.s., 
  and 
  limafulits 
  the 
  sculp- 
  

   ture 
  of 
  frontovertex 
  is 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  alveolate 
  but 
  the 
  alveoli 
  

   are 
  finer 
  and 
  less 
  definite. 
  P. 
  alveolatifrons 
  differs 
  from 
  angeliciis 
  and 
  

   ahstnuiiwi 
  further 
  by 
  having 
  the 
  ocelli 
  in 
  an 
  equilateral, 
  instead 
  of 
  a 
  

   distinctly 
  acute, 
  triangle 
  and 
  l)y 
  lacking 
  the 
  transverse 
  hyaline 
  streak 
  

   on 
  the 
  wing. 
  From 
  Umatulus 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  distinctly 
  

   duller 
  sculpturing 
  of 
  the 
  mesonotum 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  by 
  its 
  brighter 
  orange- 
  

   yellow 
  color. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  possible 
  that 
  additional 
  material 
  may 
  show 
  that 
  the 
  differences 
  

   between 
  meracus 
  and 
  aJ^vcolatifrons 
  are 
  not 
  of 
  specific 
  value, 
  but 
  in 
  

   view 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  are 
  from 
  different 
  

   hosts 
  and 
  from 
  different 
  localities 
  and 
  this 
  sculptural 
  difference 
  does 
  

   Lxist, 
  it 
  seems 
  wisest 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  separate 
  name 
  to 
  this 
  form 
  from 
  

   /-'. 
  comntocki 
  even 
  though 
  it 
  may 
  eventually 
  turn 
  out 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  synonym. 
  

  

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