ART. 7 REVISION OF COCCOPHAGUS COMPERE HI 



75. COCCOPHAGUS NIGROPLEURUM Girault 



Coccophagus nigropleurum Girault, Descriptiones Stellarum Novarum. Wash., 

 D. C. (Published by author) 1917, p. 1. 



Kedescribed from a single female paratype that has lost the head. 

 If the coloration of this species is variable, it may be difficult to 

 recognize from this redescription as well as from the original 

 description. An orange yellow and black species with hyaline wings 

 and with the sciitellum less densely setose than is the mesoscutum. 



Female. — Orange yellow with the following parts black : center of 

 occiput; anterior margin of the mesoscutum; a spot on the anterior 

 mesal margin of each parapsis; the slender wedge-shaped posterior 

 portion of each parapsis lying between the axillae and mesoscutum; 

 metanotum except the median piece; a slight infusion on the pro- 

 podeum; abdomen, except the basal angles and behind the cereal 

 plates where it fades to brownish orange; and the pleurites except 

 near the sutures. Sternites mostly yellowish. Middle tibiae with 

 the median part slightly suffused with dusky. Hind tibia slightly 

 dusky toward the base. Remainder of the legs pallid yellow to 

 faintly brownish yellow. According to Giraidt, antennal scape yel- 

 low, the rest of the antenna black. 



First funicle joint originally described as twice as long as wide. 



Scutellum wider than long (12:9) and plainly shorter than the 

 mesoscutum (9:11). Abdomen slightly shorter than the thorax, 

 longer than wide (10:7). Ovipositor not exserted. 



Mesoscutum with numerous black setae in more or less regular 

 longitudinal alignment. The disk of the scutellum about as densely 

 setose as the mesoscutum but bare on the sides and toward apex, the 

 apex with a pair of black bristles. Each axilla with two setae and 

 each parapsis with four similar setae. 



Fore wings hyaline, densely and closely ciliated. Marginal fringe 

 moderately short. Submarginal vein about equal in length to the 

 marginal. 



Redescribed from one female (paratype) U.S.N.M. No. 20076 

 reared from Tacha/rdia decorella^ collected by C. C. Gowdey at Kam- 

 pala, Uganda, Africa, October 4, 1915. 



76. COCCOPHAGUS SILVESTRII, new species 



Plate 9, Figure 73; Plate 11, Figure 129 



This striking species is easily recognized by the coloration and 

 unusually long apical scutellar bristles. 



Fetnale. — Lemon yellow marked with dark brown or fuscous as 

 follows: exposed part of pronotum, anterior half of mesoscutum 

 arcuately. sides of metanotum, center of propodeum, and entire abdo- 

 men. In certain lights the dark coloration, especially on the meso- 

 scutum, has metallic bluish reflections. Legs entirely pale yellow. 



