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

 paratypes) momited in balsam. One female, holotype, " Ex. Gero- 

 plastes sp. on ' mnkavoti,' Durban, Natal, Sept. 10, 1925;" one male, 

 allotype, "Ex. fChrysomphaliis sp., Amanzimtati, Natal, May 28, 

 1927;" four females dismembered and crushed, " On window, Durban, 

 Natal, Sept. 14, 1925." All specimens collected by E. W. Rust. 

 Rust's Nos. C-13, C-13A, and C-13D. 



45. COCCOPHAGUS PULCINI Girault 



Plate 8, Figure 52; Plate 10, Figure 79; Plate 11, Figure 134 



Coccophagtis pulcini Girault, New Pests from Australia, III ; Brisbane, 

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



Girault's original description follows: "As triguttatus but abdo- 

 men above with 5 distinct cross stripes, 2-4 close ; f unicle 1 somewhat 

 longer than wide, equal 2, latter shorter than pedical. Wynnum, 4. 

 October, 1921." 



The type female is badly crushed but all the fragments are present. 

 The distinct cross stripes mentioned by Girault are no longer appar- 

 ent. General color light lemon yellow with concealed center of pro- 

 notum black. Some blackish appears on abdomen but the sclerites 

 are so badly separated and crushed as to make the original color 

 pattern impossible of recognition. 



An antenna is well preserved and intact so that the general shape 

 and proportion can be pictured (fig. 52.) Scape fusiform, of usual 

 shape. Pedicel plainly longer than wide, and longer and wider than 

 first funicle joint. First f unicle joint the smallest, the tw^o succeeding 

 subequal in length and slightly increasing in width distad. Club 

 as long as funicle joints combined and about one and one-third times 

 as long as distal funicle joint. The sensoria and vestiture as shown 

 in Figure 52. 



Fore wings as shown in Figure 79. Posterior, basal hairless area 

 separated from the hairless streak under the marginal vein by three 

 rows of cilia. Submarginal vein slightly longer than marginal vein ; 

 stigmal and postmarginal as shown in Figure 134. Disk of wing 

 with medium sized cilia. Marginal fringe of normal length. Wings 

 clear, hyaline. 



Scutellum in the crushed condition plainly wider than long. Ovi- 

 positor shortly exserted. 



Setae on the body not readily seen and many misplaced by the 

 mutilation. The setae are light-colored, and the scutellum is prob- 

 ably furnished with three pairs of bristles although only the apical 

 pair remain. Mesoscutum with 30 or more moderately stout setae. 



Mandibles with the ventral tooth well differentiated from the 

 broad trucation. 



