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or less black; median piece of metanotum yellow; occasionally the 

 expanded part of the parapsides suffused with f errugineous ; 

 mesosternum and ventral part of the prepectus and mesoepisterna 

 shading to f errugino-testaceous ; remainder of thorax black. Abdo- 

 men black. All coxae black; trochanters apt to be pale with more 

 or less blackish suffusions; fore femora blackish on basal half; 

 middle femora with an annulus at base and yellow on apical one- 

 third ; hind femora more extensively black only the apical one-fourth 

 yellow. Fore tibiae yellow or slightly brownish; middle tibiae 

 completely yellow; hind tibiae mostly black, apical one-third or so 

 yellow. Fore tarsi slightly brownish; apical joint of all tarsi dusky. 



Pedicel almost one and one-half times as long as wide, plainly 

 shorter than the first funicle point. First funicle point the longest, 

 a trifle more than one and one-half times as long as wide; second 

 and third successively shorter and slightly wider so that the third 

 joint is not much longer than wide. Club joints successively decreas- 

 ing in size; first and second about as wide as long; third plainly 

 longer than wide (fig. 43). 



Fore wings hyaline. Marginal vein a trifle longer than the sub- 

 marginal; stigmal as shown in Figure 130. 



Basitarsus of middle legs as long as the four succeeding joints 

 united; tibial spur slightly but plainly shorter than the basitarsus. 

 Paired spurs at apex of hind tibiae slightly unequal. Setae near 

 articulation of middle femur and tibia moderately strong, black, as 

 shown in Figure 163. 



As seen through the derm, the ovipositor arises near the center of 

 abdomen. 



Length 0.95 mm. 



Male. — Face and cheeks lemon yellow; frontovertex usually more 

 or less suffused with fuscous and the ocellar area blackish; dorsal 

 portion of occiput blackish, the ventral yellow. Expanded part of 

 the parapsides more or less ferruginous; remainder of thorax and 

 abdomen black. Legs lemon yellow except that the basal part of 

 the coxae are more or less fuscous, the hind tibiae are blackish on the 

 basal two-thirds, and the apical tarsal joints are fuscous. 



The antennae are somewhat thicker than in the female and the 

 sensoria on the first funicle joint are differently arranged. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 42090, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 49 females and 15 males (holotype, allotype, and 

 paratypes), reared by E. W. Kust as follows: 32 females and 7 

 males from Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus on Hibiscus, Durban and 

 Isipingo, Natal, S. Africa, September 1925 ; 8 females from Saissetia 

 nigra (Nietner), Barberton, Transvaal, May 1926; 2 females from 

 Saissetia persiiiiile (Newstead), Durban, Natal; 7 females and 8 



