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femora entirely black; hind tibia black except the apical one-fourth 

 which is yellow and concolorous with the remainder of the legs. 



Male. — Body black, head yellow, legs yellow except for fuscous 

 suffusing the basal half of hind tibiae. 



For the purposes of comparison, Doctor Silvestri loaned the types 

 for study and Dr. Guy Marshall loaned a series of specimens de- 

 termined as this species by Ch. Ferriere, labeled : " British Sudan 

 Wad Mehadi, H. B. Johnston, No. 4126, 10/4/1927, Ex. Ceroplastes 

 africanus ? on Acacia arahica.'''' 



57. COCCOPHAGUS MALTHUSI Girault 



Plate 1 ; Plate 2 ; Plate 14, Figure ISO 



CoccopJiacfUS malthusi Girault, Descriptiones Stellarum Novarum, Wash., D. C. 

 (Published by author) May, 1917. — Compere, Uiiiv. Calif. Pub. Ent., vol. 

 4, No. 1, 1926, pp. 5-9. 



This species has previously been redescribed.^^ An additional 

 series of specimens has been received since the redescription was 

 published. The new specimens were sent by Rust, who said that 

 they were reared from an undescribed dark brown Ceroplastes on 

 Ficus natalensis collected at Durban, Natal, September 22, 1926. 

 Rust's No. C-18. The great majority of specimens in this series 

 have the body almost completely black, but the parapsides with 

 the posterior margin narrowly marked with orange and the post- 

 scutellum yellow. As a rule the dorsum of the head is orange, the 

 face and cheeks yellow suffused with more or less fuscous. The 

 hind femora may be entirely yellow or liberally marked with 

 blackish. As already mentioned this species is extremely variable 

 in coloration, some specimens having the mesoscutum and scutellum 

 brownish. This species, more than any other, illustrates how un- 

 reliable is a classification based on color differences. 



58. COCCOPHAGUS CLAVELLATUS, new species 



Plate 9, Figure 61; Plate 11, Figure 90; Plate 13, Figures 162 and 165; 



Plate 14, Figure 181 



Due to the marked difference in coloration, this form was at first 

 confidently considered to be a distinct species. A more careful study 

 in comparison with specimens of C. princeps Silvestri and C. mal- 

 thusi Girault failed to reveal any fundamental structural differences 

 among the three forms and C. cJavellatus as well as C. malthusi may 

 possibly prove to be synonymns. So far as I am aware, the figures 

 given as illustrative of this species equally well represent C. princeps 

 and C. malthusi. 



»2 Univ. Calif. Pub. Ent., vol. 4, No. 1, 1926, pp. 5-9. 



