ART. 7 REVISION OF COCCOPHAGUS COMPEEE 57 



30. COCCOPHAGUS COWPERI Girault 

 Plate 3, Figure 3 



Coccophagus fiavoscutellum Masi (not Asbmead) Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. 



Portici, vol. 1, 1907, p. 239, fig. 4. 

 Coccophagus cowperi Giratxlt, Descriptiones Stellarum Novarum, 1917, p. 1. 

 Coccophagus lecanil Gahan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, Art. 4, 1927, pp. 24- 



25.— Smith and Compeee, Univ. Calif. Pub. Eut., vol. 4, No. 9, 1928, pp. 



247-254. 



In a recent paper on the Parasites of Saissetia oleae (Bernard),-^ 

 the writer treated this form under the name G. lecanii (Fitch) 

 and in a footnote stated that there was doubt concerning its identity 

 and that the figure and life history notes were based on a study of 

 specimens received from Cape Town, South Africa. Gahan,-^ makes 

 C. cowperi Girault a synonym of C. lecanii (Fitch) and expresses 

 the belief that the African specimens represent merely a variation 

 or at most a geographical race of C. lecanii. He also says that 

 the types of G. cowperi were reared from Stictococcus gowdeyi 

 Newstead, collected at Nagunga, Uganda, Africa. Since it is 

 necessary to recognize the existence of this form, race, variety, or 

 species, as the case may be, it is for uniformity treated as a species 

 so as to be in agreement with the rank tentatively given to G. elea- 

 philus^ Silvestri, G. pulvinariae^ new species. G. isipingoensis, new 

 species, G. tibialis, new species and G. cuhaensis, new species. 



A series of specimens collected in Italy and loaned for study by 

 Doctor Silvestri were determined as G. fiavoscutellum Ashmead by 

 Masi and were mentioned by him under this name. So far as I can 

 determine, all the specimens studied by Masi are in exact agreement 

 with the South African form treated as G. cowperi Girault in this 

 paper. 



Figure 3, illustrating the adult of G. cowperi Girault, is a typical, 

 medium sized species and it is set as the standard when statements 

 of comparison are made. The slight differences that serve to dis- 

 tinguish this form from G. lecanii are given in the keys. 



31. COCCOPHAGUS ISIPINGOENSIS. new species 



Plate 5, Figure 7 ; Plate 8, Figure 43 ; Plate 11, Figure 130 ; Plate 13, Figure 163 



The females of this species resemble those of G. lecanii (Fitch) 

 closely enough to cause confusion but in the male sex the coloration 

 of the legs is strikingly unlike. 



Female. — Frontovertex orange yellow ; coloration of face variable 

 ranging from slightly dusky to black; antennae yellow; occiput 

 blackish. Scutellum mostly yellow only the anterior margin more 



^ Smith and Compere, Univ. Calif. Pub. Ent., vol. 4, No. 9, 1928, p. 247. 

 28 Gahan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, Art. 4, 1927, p. 24. 



