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Mr. Kust, who observed the behavior of these parasites in life, wrote 

 that they walked differently from G . riiodestus var. capensis. 



Female. — Thorax and abdomen black. Frontovertex, face, and a 

 part of the cheeks ferrugino-testaceous and usually with some fus- 

 cous in parts, the fuscous pronounced on the posterior part of the 

 cheeks. Antennae testaceous. Legs blackish or dark brown except 

 as follows: Apices of all femora and an annulus at base of the 

 middle pair, fore tibiae, middle tibiae at ends, and tarsi except the 

 apical joints, the latter pallid in balsam mounts, in life probably 

 white or faintly yellowish white. 



Pedicel about one and one-half times as long as wide. First funi- 

 cle joint slightly more than twice as long as wide and about twice as 

 long as the pedicel ; second and third successively shorter and wider, 

 the third only a trifle longer than wide. Club short and wide, only 

 slightly longer than the first funicle joint; all joints wider than 

 long, the first and second very much wider than long. Antennae as 

 in Figure 55. 



Mandibles as shown in Figure 179. 



Fore wings with an indefinite infuscated area beneath the apical 

 half of the marginal vein. Marginal vein almost one and one-half 

 times as long as the submarginal; postmarginal slightly variable, 

 sometimes produced as far distad as the stigmal. Postmarginal 

 and stigmal veins as in Figure 121. 



Proportions, shape, and vestiture of thorax and abdomen as in 

 Figure 9. 



Middle femur with a strong black spine at apex and middle 

 tibia with smaller but conspicuous spines at base. Hind tibia with 

 the dorsal margin furnished with strong, suberect spines. Middle 

 tibial spur slightly shorter than the basitarsus. Hind tibia with 

 two strong, subequal spurs. 



Length 2.08 mm. 



Type.— C^i. No. 42097, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 17 females (holotype and paratypes) reared by 

 E. W. Rust from Saissetia perswiile (Newstead) collected at Dur- 

 ban, Natal, February and March, 1927. The specimens are all 

 mounted in balsam and 12 of them are dismembered and partly 

 flattened. 



50. COCCOPHAGUS MODESTUS Silvestri 



Plate 8, Figure 56 



Coccophagus orientalis var. modesia, Sllvestri, Boll. Lab. Zool. Agr., Portici., 

 vol. 9, 1914, pp. 355-57. 



In this paper, the name C. inodestus Silvestri is restricted to the 

 form occurring at Dahomey, Cotonou. There is uncertainty as to 

 whether the form occurring in Cape Town and Durban is specifi- 



