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head orange, ocellar triangle blackish. Face mostly orange above 

 merging to yellow below, including all the portion between genal 

 sutures. Laterad of genal sutures, cheeks black. Blackish of 

 cheeks continuous in a line arching above oral margin. Eyes red. 

 Antennae slightly brownish yellow. Lateral and under parts of 

 thorax more or less brownish. Legs pallid white to yellowish. 



Antennae unlike those of female, club not differentiated and fla- 

 gellum furnished with numerous sensoria. Pedicel short, apparently 

 wider than long. Funicle and club joints apparently subequal in 

 length. 



Length 0.77 mm. 



Redescribed from one female and one male in the United States 

 National Museum, determined by A. B. Gahan; reared from 

 Lecanium nigrofasclatum^ Kent County, Maryland, June 1, 1911, 

 A. B. Gahan, Coll. 



44. COCCOPHAGUS MARGARITATUS, new species 



Plate 5, Figure 10 ; Plate 8, Figure 51 ; Plate 10, Figure 77 ; Plate 11, Figure 

 108; Plate 13, Figure 154; Plate 14, Figure 184 



This species is slightly suggestive of Prospaltella in certain re- 

 spects. The fringe of the forewings is longer than usual in Cocco- 

 phagus and the cilia of the disk are rather sparse and large. It is 

 a distinctive species readily recognized. 



Female. — Most of the head lustrous, pearly white, the face and 

 frontovertex with some yellowish; occiput blackish. Antennae 

 mostly yelloAv; scape whitish, yellow at apex. Eyes and 

 ocelli scarlet. The following parts black to dark brown : Meso- 

 scutum, axillae, median part of metanotum, propodeum, petiole, 

 posterior margin of second tergite, third, fourth, and fifth tergites, 

 proepisterna, mesopleura, prepectus, mesosternum, middle and hind 

 coxae, venter of abdomen on apical half, and ovipositor sheaths. 

 Parapsides and scutellum more or less ferruginous. Tegulae more 

 or less yellow. Basal one-third or so of abdomen pale yellow to 

 white. Sixth tergite yellow with a dark blotch on either side of the 

 center. Seventh tergite yellow with dark median blotch. Cereal 

 plates margined with dark brown posteriorly. Legs mostly white, 

 in parts faintly yellowish, the middle and hind coxae black. 



Scape slender, a trifle more than five times as long as wide. 

 Pedicel, large, about one and one-half times as long as wide and 

 plainly longer than the first funicle joint. First funicle joint the 

 smallest, slightly longer than wide and slightly more than one-half 

 as long as the second. Second and third funicle joints subequal, 

 each somewhat more than one and one-half times as long as wide. 

 Club large, as long as the funicle joints combined. First and second 



