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

 one-half as long as the first funicle joint. First funicle joint plainly 

 the longest, twice as long as wide; following funicle joints succes- 

 sively shorter and almost imperceptibly wider so that the third joint 

 is hardly longer than wide. Club about as long as the first and 

 second funicle joints combined; basal club joint subequal to the 

 third funicle joint. Antenna with details of sensoria as shown in 

 Figure 73. 



Mandibles with a slightly developed apical tooth and a broad 

 truncation. The mandibular peg-shaped spines large and con- 

 spicuous. 



Fore wings hyaline or very faintly uniformly smoky; cilia of 

 disk moderately dense. Marginal vein plainly longer than the sub- 

 marginal; stigmal as shown in Figure 129. Exact length of post- 

 marginal vein not ascertainable in the balsam-mounted specimen 

 available for study. 



Scutellum slightly wider than long (5:4) and as long as the 

 mesoscutum. Abdomen about as long and as wide as the thorax; 

 in dried tag-mounted specimens truncate at apex. Ovipositor 

 arises near the base of abdomen. 



Frontovertex with strong, brown setae which are very conspicu- 

 ous in contrast to the yellow parts. Face and checks with fine, pale 

 setae. Dorsum of thorax strongly setose. Each axilla with two 

 setae. Scutellum about as densely setose as the mesoscutum and at 

 apex furnished with an unusually long pair of bristles; two pairs 

 of preapical lateral bristles are not much larger than the discal 

 setae. Second and third tergites with a broadly interrupted row 

 of setae. Fourth, fifth, and sixth tergites with a row of setae com- 

 pletely across the dorsum. Seventh tergite with scattered setae. 

 Knees of middle legs with conspicuous large brown setae. Tibial 

 spur slightly shorter than the basitarsus. 



Length 1.2 mm. 



Type.— Ciit. No. 42104, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 4 females (holotype and paratypes) reared by 

 Dr. F. Silvestri from a Lecanium sp., Foochow, China, July 1, 1924. 



SPECIES OF COCCOPHAGUS UNRECOGNIZED 



Some species, mostly European, remain unrecognized. A few 

 of the older European descriptions are not available to me but 

 Spanish translations of the originals were consulted in the work of 

 Mercet.^^ Certain species are known to me only by Mercet's Spanish 

 translations and since very few European specimens are available 

 for study, I am unable to clarify the confused European synonomy. 



3s Mereet, Trab. Mus. Cienc. Nat., No. 10, Madrid, 1912. pp. 221-252. 



