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9. COCCOPHAGUS PERHISPIDIS Girault 



Plate 7, Figure 23 ; Plate 11, Figure 97 



Coccophagus perhispidis Giratjlt, New Pests from Australia, III, Brisbane, 

 Queensland, August 25, 1926. (Published by author.) 



Girault's original description follows: "As triguttatus but only 

 pronotum widely across middle and a mark behind insertion of the 

 wings, black : UpiDer thorax with coarse black setae but axillae with 

 only pair moderate bristles. Nelson, jungle." 



Of the type, only the head, fragments of the legs, and a portion 

 of the wings remain. The head is badly crushed and partly pro- 

 truding under the edge of the cover glass in an excess of balsam. 



The antennae are in fragments and partially obscured. The 

 •antenna shown in Figure 23 is in part hypothetical. Scape appears 

 unusually wide but this may be due to crushing. Pedicel slightly 

 longer than wide. First funicle joint longest, the following succes- 

 sively shorter; all of about the same width. Club about as long 

 as the first and second funicle joints united and not much wider than 

 the funicle. Funicle and club furnished with numerous sensoria 

 that extend the entire length of the segments. 



Fore wings with the disk densely and uniformly ciliated. Mar- 

 ginal fringe of average length. Postmarginal and stigmal veins 

 as shown in Figure 97. 



Mandibles almo'st edentate. 



All fragments of the type remaining on slide light yellow. 



Middle tibial spur just a trifle shorter than the basitarsus; basi- 

 tarsus not quite as long as the succeeding joints united. 



Measurements in mm. : Fore wing 0.36 wide. Marginal vein 

 0.28 long. Marginal fringe 0.0224 long. Five tarsal joints of the 

 middle leg's united 0.24; basitarsus 0.1080 long; tibial spur 0.0916 

 long. Scape 0.1240 long by 0.0496 wide. Pedicel 0.0464 long by 

 0.0416 wide. First funicle joint 0.0824 long by 0.0408 wide ; second 

 0.0640 long by 0.0440 wide ; third 0.0464 long by 0.0416 wide. First 

 club joint 0.0472 long by 0.0496 wide ; second 0.0432 long by 0.512 

 wide; third 0.0432 long by 0.0368 wide. The club of the second 

 antenna, which remains on the slide, gave the following set of meas- 

 urements: First club joint 0.0448 long by 0.0560 wide; second 0.0448 

 long by 0.0560 wide ; third 0.424 long by 0.440 wide. 



Redescribed from the fragments of the type female in the Queens- 

 land Museum. No data on slide other than name and designation 

 type. 



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