N0.213G. REVISION OF THE OENUS APIIYCUS—TIMBERLAKE. 583 



with a black, oval spot on inner face of expanded portion; the 

 flagellum brownish. Legs and wings as in the female. 



Described from three females, one male (type, allotype, and para- 

 types) reared from Kermes miyasakii Kuwana, Akabane, Japan, 

 August, 1909 (S. S. Kuwana). 



Type.— Cat. No. 18376, U.S.N.M. 



3. AENASIOIDEA KERMICOLA, new species. 

 Fig. 4. 



Female. — Front and vertex about one-half longer again than 

 wide; ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair about their 

 own diameter from the eye margin; antennal scrobes narrow and 

 deep, uniting above, but not so conspicuous as in A. puchella; the 

 eyes with a scanty, fine pubescence. Antennal scape over half as 

 wide as long, widest across the middle; pedicel about one- third 

 longer than the first funicle joint; funicle joints all of nearly equal 

 length and increasing slightly in width, the first three a little longer 

 than wide, the fourth as wide as long, the last two slightly wider than 

 long; club oval, with apex rounded, about one-third wider than 

 the last funicle joint and nearly as long as the last three funicle 

 joints combined. Wings uniformly cUiated; oblique hairless streak 

 widened and interrupted below, the cut-off portion connecting with 

 a branch of the basal hairless streak on posterior margin of wing. 

 Ovipositor not protruded. Length: 0.75 to 1.25 mm. 



Front and vertex, upper rim of occiput, and upper part of face 

 above the lower corners of the eyes gamboge yellow; rest of face, 

 cheeks, and sides of occiput pale chrome yellow; collar of pronotum, 

 tegulae, and underparts grayish white, the venter of abdomen more 

 dusky, especially in the middle, and a brown spot on each corner of 

 the collar and one on the hind margin of the tegulae; mesonotum 

 blackish brown, changing to dusky gamboge yellow on the sides, the 

 axillae being almost entirely yellowish; hidden portion of the occiput 

 and of the pronotum, the metanotum, propodeum and dorsum of 

 the abdomen black, the latter with the sides behind the vibrissal 

 plates narrowly whitish. Antennal scape black, with base, apex, 

 and a narrow line on the upper margin white; pedicel black at base, 

 the apical two-thirds white; first two funicle joints blackish, the 

 third somewhat dusky, and the last three yellowish white; club 

 slightly more yellowish. Legs dirty whitish, with a dusky mark 

 on the upper surface of all the femora, smaller and darker on the 

 middle pair; the tibiae with two blackish annuli, narrow on the 

 middle pair and wider on the front and hind pair; the tarsi more 

 yellowish, the last joint blackish. Wings hyaline, the veins dusky 

 yellowish. 



