NO. 2136. REVT^^WN OF THE GENUS APHYCUS—TIMBERLAKE. 637 



Described from six females, two males (type, allotype, and para- 

 types a to /) reared from Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, Santa Paula, 

 California, August 15-28, 1912; one female, three males (paratypes 

 g to j) from same host, Whitticr, California, April 21, 1911; four 

 females (paratypes Ic to n) from same host, Carpenteria, California, 

 September 20-22, 1012; two females (paratypes o and ■]>) from 

 same host, Sacramento, California, Novcml)er 22, 1912; one female 

 (paratypo g) reared from Saissdia oleae (Bernard), Chula Vista, Cali- 

 fornia, September 5, 1912; and one female (paratype r) from the 

 latter host, Sweetwater Dam, California, September 10, 1912 (P. H. 

 Timberlake). Additional specimens in the writer's collection from 

 niost of the aliove localities may ])e considered as mctatypes; also 

 three females, two males reared from Coccus citricola Campbell, 

 Claremont, California, July 10-17, 1912 and 1913 (R. E. Campbell). 



Type.— Cat. No. 18377, U.S.N.M. 



40. APHYCUS OREGONENSIS Howard. 



Fig. 54. 

 Aphycus oregonmsis Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, 1898, pp. 241, 246. 



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

 an acute-angled triangle (in the largest cotype) or front and vertex only 

 about one-half longer again than wide and ocelli in an equilateral tri- 

 angle or nearly so (in rest of cotypes, which are considerably smaller) ; 

 posterior ocelh about one-half their own diameter from the eye 

 margin ; ixntennal scrobes broad and shallow ; eyes with a fine, delicate 

 pubescence. Antennal scape flattened and but slightly expanded, 

 widest just beyond the middle, nearly four times longer than wide; 

 pedicel as long as first two and one-half of the third funicle joint; 

 first four funicle joints of equal length, the last two longer, the sixth a 

 little longer than the fifth, first joint about as long as wide, the follow- 

 ing increasingly wider, the last nearly twice as wide as the first; club 

 oval, rounded at apex, hardly wider than the preceding joint and as 

 long as the last four funicle joints combined. Wings uniformly 

 ciliated ; oblique hairless streak widened and interrupted below, the 

 largo cut-off portion uniting with an mdistinct branch of the basal 

 hairless streak. Length, 0.9 to 1.2 mm. 



Front, vertex, and mesonotum dull orange yellow; face, cheeks, 

 occiput, and , under parts yellowish white, the cheeks with a largo 

 brownish spot next to the mandibles, and the center of occiput above 

 the neck dusky; concealed part of pronotum, anterior margin of 

 mesoscutum, most of metanotum, propodeum, and dorsum of abdo- 

 men brownish black; collar of pronotum and tegulae whitish, the for- 

 mer with a blackish dot on each corner, the latter with their posterior 

 margin pale brown; sutures of mesonotum lined with blackish and 

 the mesoscutellum slightly brownish. Antennal scape blackish 



