634 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



club entii-ely blackish brown darkest on the club. Legs and wings as 

 in the female. 



Redcscribed from one female, one male (cotypes) reared from 

 Coccus liesperidum Limiacus, Sydney, New South Wales (A. Koebele) ; 

 three females, two males, from same host, Los Angeles County, Cali- 

 fornia, April (A. Koebele), and seven females, two males with the 

 same data but reared in August, Koebele's number 160°; one female 

 from same host, Avalon, Catalina Island, California, September 12, 

 1912 (P. H. Timberlake) ; five females, four males from same host, 

 Carpenteria, California, July 12 to August 27, 1911 (P. H. Timberlake) ; 

 and a series of both sexes reared from the same host hi reproduction 

 experiments with females from Carpenteria. 



The Koebele specimens from Los Angeles County were determmed 

 by Howard as Jlavus and constitute the California record iov jlavus 

 in his 1898 paper. 



Type.—Csit. No. 5051, U.S.N.M. 



37. APHYCUS PHILIPPIAE Martelll. 



ApMcus philippiae Martelli, Boll. Portici Lab., vol. 2, 1908, pp. 236, 245 — Masi, 

 Boll. Partici Lab., vol. 3, 1908, p. 100, fig. 8. 



This species has not been seen by the Avriter. It was reared from 

 Filippia oleae (Costa), Catanzara and Gizzeria, Calabria, Italy, and 

 from a Lecanium, No vara, Sicily. 



38. APHYCUS FLAVUS Howard. 

 Figs. 26, 47. 

 Aphycus Jlavus Howard, Ilep. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, 1881, p. 365. 



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

 an acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair close to the eye margin; 

 eyes nearly nonpubescent. Antennal scape flattened and narrow, 

 about four times as long as wide, widest near the middle; pedicel a 

 little longer than the first three funicle joints combined; first five 

 funicle joints of nearly equal length, the sixth slightly longer, the 

 last four increasing gradually in width so that the sixth is about 

 twice as wide as the first, and all wider than long except the first two, 

 which are about as long as wide; club oval, slightly pointed at apex, 

 a little. wider than the last funicle joint, and nearly as long as the 

 last five funicle joints combmed. Wings uniformly ciliated; oblique 

 hairless streak widened and intemipted below, the cut-off portion 

 separated from the posterior margin of disk and from the basal 

 hairless streak. Length, 0.7 to 1.2 mm. 



Front, vertex, and upper surface of body bright orange yellow, the 

 propodeum and dorsum of abdomen sometimes slightly brownish; 

 face, cheeks, and underparts similar but paler yellow; collar of pro- 

 notum and tegulae pale yellowish with a blackish dot on each comer 



