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center and base, the margins posterior to the vibrissae broadly yellow 

 and anterior to the vibrissae more yellowish brown. Antennal scape 

 black, with base, apex and a narrow line on dorsal margin white; 

 base of pedicel, first four fmiicle joints, and club brown, the funicle 

 joints paler on the upper side, especially the third and fourth; rest of 

 antenna yellowish white. Legs pale yellowish white with the last 

 joint of the tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



3Iale. — Not known. 



Redescribed from four females (two of them cotypes) from Gifu, 

 Japan (Y. Nawa). 



Type.— Cat. No. 717G, U.S.N.M. 



18. APHYCUS KINGI, new species. 

 Fig. 5. 



Female. — Front and vertex nearly twice as long as wide; ocelli in 

 an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair about one-half their own 

 diameter from the eye margin; antennal scrobes broad and shallow, 

 the facial prominence but slightly elevated; eyes nearly bare. An- 

 tennal scape about one-half as wide as long, widest across the middle; 

 pedicel only a little longer than the first two funicle joints combined; 

 first four funicle joints subequal in length, the last two longer, the 

 ' first three hardly wider than long, the next three increasing in width 

 so that the sixth is about twice as wide as the first; club oval, sub- 

 truncate at apex, nearly a third wider again than the preceding joint 

 and as long as the last three funicle joints combined. Wings nearly 

 uniformly ciliated but a triangular area beneath the lower third of 

 the oblique hairless streak with the cilia less dense; oblique hairless 

 streak extends uninterrupted from the stigmal vein to the posterior 

 margin of wing. Length: 1.0 mm. 



Front, vertex, upper rim of occiput, and mesonotum orange yellow; 

 face, cheeks, sides of occiput, and entire underparts sordid yellowish 

 white, with the venter of abdomen more dusky; concealed part of 

 occiput and pronotum, the metanotum, propodeum and dorsum of 

 abdomen uniformly blackish brown; collar of pronotum and tegulse 

 yellowish white, the former with a small brownish dot on each corner, 

 and the posterior third of the latter pale brown. Antennal scape 

 black with the extreme base, apex, and a very narrow lino on the 

 upper margin yellowish white; pedicel, except the dorsal, apical mar- 

 gin, the first two funicle joints, and a part of the third, and club 

 blackish brown; rest of antenna yellowish white. Legs uniformly 

 yellowish white with the last joint of the tarsi blackish. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



Hale. — Not known. 



