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ceding f unicle joint and a trifle wider ; second and third successively 

 shorter and narrower; all longer than wide (fig. 39). 



Mandibles with the ventral and median tooth subequal and with 

 a broadly rounded dorsal tooth. 



Fore wings subhyaline, faintly and uniformly smoky, cilia fine 

 and dense. Marginal vein slightly longer than the submarginal. 

 Stigmal vein as shown in Figure 127. Marginal fringe short. 



Basitarsus of middle legs as long as the four succeeding joints 

 united ; tibial spur plainly shorter than the basitarsus. Paired spurs 

 of hind tibiae subequal. 



Ovipositor as seen through the derm arises near the middle of 

 abdomen. 



Sculpture and vestiture similar to G. lecanii (Fitch). 



Measurements in mm. : Length 0.90. Scape 0.456 long by 0.0352 

 wide. Pedicel 0.0520 long by 0.376 wide. First f unicle joint 0.0760 

 long by 0.0480 wide ; second 0.0672 long by 0.0488 wide ; third 0.0648 

 long by 0.0512 wide. First club joint 0.0648 long by 0.0544 wide; 

 second 0.0544 long by 0.0488 wide ; third 0.0464 long by 0.344 wide. 

 Fore wings 0.84 long by 0.38 wide. Marginal vein 0.26 long; sub- 

 marginal 0.24 long. Longest marginal fringe 0.016. 



Male. — Face, cheeks, and antennae pale lemon to orange yellow; 

 frontovertex with a variable amount of fuscous. Parapsides, espe- 

 cially the expanded parts, often suffused with orange. Legs yellow ; 

 middle and hind coxae black, apical joint of the middle and hind 

 tarsi fuscous, and the fore tarsi faintly brownish. 



Type.— C2it. No. 28971, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 35 females and 10 males (holotype, allotype, and 

 paratypes) reared by E. W. Rust as follows: 17 females, 1 male 

 reared from Pulvinaria merwei on fern (and other hosts?) Durban, 

 Natal, October, September, 1925, and February, 1927, Rust's No. 

 C-12; 2 females and 1 male reared from Coccus hesperidum 

 Linnaeus, Durban, Natal, September, 1925, and May, 1927; 15 fe- 

 males and 1 male reared from Pulvinaria jacksoni June, 1926, and 

 May, 1927, Rust's No. C-34; 3 males reared from Inglisia species, 

 Mayville, Natal, May, 1926, Rust's No. C-12. 



27. COCCOPHAGUS JAPONICUS Compere 



Plate 8, Figure 40 



Coccophagus japonicus Compere, Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci., vol. 23, pt 4, 1924, 

 pp. 122-23.— Gahan, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 28, No. 1, 1926, p. 24. 



This is a Japanese species belonging to the C. lecanii (Fitch) 

 group. 



Female. — General color black, posterior two-thirds of the scutel- 

 lum yellow. Head black. Scape blackish; flagellum brown with 



