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long by 0.0552 wide. First club joint 0.0704 long by 0.0592 wide; 

 second 0.08 long by 0.0576 wide; third 0.0704 long by 0.0432 wide. 



Type.— C2ii. No. 42098, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 12 females (holotype and paratypes) received 

 from E. W. Rust with the following data : " Reared only twice since 

 I have been here (Natal) ; first from Ceroplastes n. sp. on custard 

 apple, Anona cherimolia {A. cherimoya?) ^ taken at Congella, Natal, 

 March 18, 1926, and later from Geroplastes destructor on a wild 

 plant, Durban, August 16, 1926." Rust's No. C-19. 



16. COCCOPHAGUS TSCHIRCHII Mahdihassan 



Plate 7, Figure 29 ; Plate 11, Figure 109 



Coccopliagus tschirchii Mahdihassan, Journ. Sci. Assoc, Maharajah's Coll., 

 India, vol. 1, 1923, p. 82.— FEBEifiBE, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 19, pt. 2, Oct. 1928, 

 pp. 173-74, fig. 2. 



This striking species was recognized and adequately described by 

 Ch. Ferriere. 



Female. — Head and thorax yellow except for blackish or brown- 

 ish markings as follows: occiput on either side of foramen; center 

 and the exposed dorsal part of pronotum; anterior part of meso- 

 scutum with a rounded U-shaped blotch; wedge shaped base of 

 parapsides and a median spot ; axillae suffused ; sides of metanotum, 

 median part of propodeum between the carinae; petiole; tegulae; 

 a part of mesosternum. Abdomen entirely black. Legs entirely 

 yellow. Eyes and ocelli reddish. 



Mandibles plainly tridentate. 



Abdomen short, rounded. 



Antennae as shown in Figure 29. 



Stigmal vein as shown in Figure 109. 



Redescribed from a series of specimens loaned by the Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology that were determined by Ch. Ferriere and 

 labeled: "India, Bengal, Kuudari, 1927, C. S. Misra. Ex. Lac in- 

 sect on Butea frondosa.'^'' This species was first reared by Mahdi- 

 hassan from the Mysore lac insect. 



17. COCCOPHAGUS GREGARIUS, new species 



Plate 7, Figure 30 ; Plate 13, Figure 149 ; Plate 14, Figure 183. 



A medium sized, robust species, black with yellow markings. The 

 pedicel which is about as wide as long is a character that readily 

 separates this species from the great majority of Coccopliagus. 



Female. — Head yellow except for the ocellar area and concealed 

 part of the occiput which are blackish. Antennae mostly yellow, a 

 part of scape and of pedical slightly dusky; sensoria fuscous. Pro- 

 notum and proepisternum black. Mesoscutum black with a band of 

 yellow on either side. Parapsides yellow with a black spot on the 

 expanded part. Axillae black. Scutellum black, yellow laterally. 



