608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 50. 



oblique hairless streak interrupted below with the cut off portion 

 connecting with the distinct basal hairless streak. Length: 0.8 mm. 



Front, vertex, and sides of the occiput cadmium yellow; face and 

 cheeks paler with a very pale bro'svnish spot on the lower corners of 

 the latter; tegulae except the usual brown spot behind, the entire 

 underparts and abdomen pale yellowish, the dorsum of the latter 

 brownish in the middle; collar of pronotum white with a brown dot 

 on each corner; concealed part of the pronotum and occiput, the 

 mesonotum, metanotum, and propodeum blackish brown, the 

 mesoscutum fading to yellowish narrowly on the sides. Antennal 

 scape black with the base, apex, and line on upper margin broadly 

 white; base of pedicel, first four funicle joints, and club blackish 

 brown, the latter becoming yellowish at apex; apex of pedicel and 

 last two funicle joints pale yellowish. Legs concolorous with the 

 underparts, with two narrow, interrupted brown aimuli on the tibiae, 

 nearly obsolete on the front pair; apex of last jomt of the tarsi dusky. 

 Wings hyalme, the veins pale yellowish^ 



Redescribed from two females (cotypes), Los Angeles, California 

 (D. W. Coquillett). 



One female reared from Pulvinaria higeloviae Cockerell, Murray, 

 Utah, June 2, 1913 (P. H. Timberlake), differs from cotypes as fol- 

 lows: All dark markings more intense or nearly pure black; upper 

 part of cheeks and sides of occiput concolorous with front and vertex; 

 the spot on lower corners of cheeks next to the mandibles large and 

 blackish; sides of the mesoscutum hardly paler; dorsum of abdomen 

 very dilute blackish brown, with the sides behind vibrissae pale 

 yellowish; venter of abdomen more grey than yellowish and becom- 

 ing fuscous at the middle; tibial bands of legs not interrupted and 

 blacker. Length: 0.9 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 5041, U.S.N.M. 



14. APHYCUS MELANOSTOMATUS, new species. 



Figs. 18, 53. 



Encyrtus punctipes Dalman (part), Sveiisk. Vet.-Akad. Ilandl., vol. 41, 1820, 



p. 371. 

 Encyrttts punctipes, var. 2°, Nees, Hyra. Ichn. affin. Monogr., vol. 2, 1834, p. 202. 



Female. — Front and vertex about one-third longer again than wide; 

 ocelli nearly in an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair slightly 

 farther apart than either to the anterior ocellus, and about their own 

 diameter from the eye margui; antemial scrobes indistinct, the face 

 being almost evenly concave with a slight prominence between the 

 bases, of the antemiSB; eyes covered with a short but dense pubes- 

 cence. Antemial scape about one-half as wide as long, \\'idest across 

 the middle; pedicel as long as the first two joints of funicle and one- 

 half of the third combined; first four funicle joints subequal in length, 



