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(Bernard), Greenpoint, Rosebank and Mobray, Cape Town, South 

 Africa, 1919, 1924. Rust's numbers M, M-2, and G. 



Large colonies of G. anthracinus Compere were repeatedly liberated 

 in a number of black scale infested districts of California but so far as 

 we know, the species failed to become established. 



5. COCCOPHAGUS TIMBEKLAKEI, new species 



Plate 7, Figure 19 ; Plate 11, Figure 124 



This species closely resembles G. anthracinus Compere and C. 

 atratus Compere ; in size and coloration it most closely resembles the 

 latter but in antennal and venational characters it is most like C. 

 anthracinus. It does not have the distinctive, microscopic markings 

 on the fifth and sixth tergites characteristic of G. atratus and the 

 setae of the middle knees are weakly developed unlike those of 

 G. anthracinus. In some specimens, this species has a few super- 

 numerary setae on the scutellum in addition to the three pairs of 

 bristles. 



Female. — General color black, occasionally with some brownish on 

 the sclerites at the base of fore wings. Antennae brownish black. 

 Coxae of all legs blackish, sometimes with brownish beneath. 

 Trochanters of all legs brownish. Femora of all legs black, dis- 

 tinctly tipped at ends with testaceous or pure yellow, middle pair 

 with an annulus at base. Tibiae of fore legs testaceous suffused 

 with fuscous; those of middle and hind legs black tipped at ends 

 with testaceous. Tarsi of all legs testaceous, more fuscous at 

 apices. 



Pedicel somewhat more than one and one-half times as long as 

 wide and slightly shorter than the first funicle joint. First funicle 

 joint slightly the longest, a trifle more than one and one-half times 

 as long as wide; second and third subequal, each a trifle shorter 

 and wider, the difference hardly appreciable with measurements. 

 First club joint slightly wider than long and slightly wider than 

 the third funicle joint; second slightly wider than long and slightly 

 smaller than first club joint; third about as long as the second but 

 much narrower, rounded at apex (fig. 19). 



Mandibles with an acute ventral tooth and a broad, slightly con- 

 cave, dorsal truncation. 



Fore wings hyaline. Submarginal vein a trifle longer than the 

 marginal'; postmarginal produced as far distad as the stigmal; 

 stigmal as shown in Figure 124. At the base of wing, parallel to 

 the posterior margin, occurs an elongated hairless area which is 

 separated by two rows of cilia from a rounded bare spot. Disk of 

 wing moderately densely ciliated, cilia of moderate size. Marginal 

 fringe short. 



