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Pedicel plainly larger than the first funicle joint, almost one and 

 one-half times as long as wide. First funicle joint the smallest, 

 about one and one-fourth times as long as wide, broadly fused to 

 the second funicle joint; second and third successively wider and 

 longer and each with a well-developed neck ; both plainly longer than 

 wide. Club large, as long as the funicle and at its widest point al- 

 most one and one-half times as wide as the third funicle joint. 

 Second club joint with the dorsal margin much longer than the 

 ventral. Pedicel and funicle furnished with sparse, large, pale 

 setae. 



Setae of the thorax hardly visible in the balsam-mounted speci- 

 mens available for study. Mesoscutum with sparse, large, pale 

 setae. Scutellum with three pairs of pale bristles. 



Fore wings hyaline furnished with sparse, rather coarse setae. 

 Marginal fringe 0.0492 mm. long. Submarginal vein slightly 

 longer than the marginal; stigmal vein large, swollen at apex; 

 postmarginal hardly developed. 



Ovipositor, as seen through the derm, arises near the middle 

 of abdomen. 



Length 0.58 mm. 



Male. — Face and cheeks white, frontovertex yellowish. Cen- 

 ter of pronotum and anterior margin of mesoscutum in middle 

 faintly dusky. Each axilla with a fuscous spot or suffusion an- 

 teriorly. Propodeum medially and dorsum of the abdomen, es- 

 pecially toward the apex, suffused with brownish or fuscous. Fla- 

 gellum yellowish, scape white. 



Club not differentiated from funicle; flagellar joints successively 

 decreasing in size, ventrally articulated; sensoria numerous and as 

 long as the segments. 



Length 0.52 mm. 



Type.— C^it. No. 42086, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females and one male (holotype, allotype, 

 and paratyi^e) on one slide mounted in balsam, reared by E. W. 

 Rust from Pulvinaria jacksoni, Durban, Natal, September 9, 1925. 



38. COCCOPHAGUS PERFLAVUS Girault 



Plate 8, Figure 46 ; Plate 11, Figure 132 ; Plate 12, Figure 143 

 Coccophagus perfiaxnis Girault, Societas Entomologica, vol. 31, 1916, p. 31. 



A pale yellow species without any dark markings. C. lutescens^ 

 new species is closely allied to this form. C. lutescens has the face, 

 cheeks, and venter of the thorax white, different antennal propor- 

 tions, and longer basitarsus. 



Female. — Head, body, legs, and antennae pale yellow. Ocelli 

 and eyes red. 



