NO. 2136. REVISION OF THE GENU8 APHYCUS—TIMBERLAKE. 625 



front and eyes. Antennal scape hardly flattened, slender, reaching 

 just to the level of the front and vertex ; pedicel of the usual length ; 

 first funicle joint a little longer than wide, the rest of antenna broken 

 off. Wings uniformly ciliated; oblique hairless streak narrow, inter- 

 rupted below, the cut-off portion large and separated from posterior 

 margin of disk; basal hairless streak extending halfway from the 

 point opposite the end of the oblique streak to the angulation. Ovi- 

 positor protruded about one-fifth the length of abdomen. Length, 

 1.3 mm., exclusive of the ovipositor. 



Front, vertex, and mesonotum brownish orange yellow shading 

 into black on the anterior margin of the mesoscutum ; face and a nar- 

 row band on the upper part of the cheeks next to the eye margin 

 creamy white; a transverse band on upper part of face above the 

 lower corners of the eyes, a lunate mark between bases of the an- 

 tennae, lower two-thirds of cheeks with a narrow line across oral 

 margin of the face, and the occiput black; concealed part of pro- 

 notum, the metanotum, propodeum, and abdomen black, the venter 

 of the latter with a wide submarginal streak of whitish on each side; 

 pleura and sternum of thorax yellowish white, with the mesosternum 

 and a rather narrow band across the middle of mesopleura brown; 

 collar of pronotum and tegulae whitish, the former witli a large, black 

 dot on each corner almost connecting with the black of the center, 

 the latter with the posterior margin brown. Antennal scape black, 

 with a whitish dot above at apex and a rather narrow, whitish, ob- 

 lique band near base; base of pedicel black, the apical third whitish; 

 funicle and club origmally described as dark brown. Legs yellowish 

 white; tibiae with two rather wide, complete brov/n annuli, indistinct 

 on the front pair and with an additional dot at the knee joint; middle 

 tibiae with a third band at the apex, but the knee joint hardly marked ; 

 hind tibiae vnth an additional dot at the knee joint and the addi- 

 tional apical band mdistinct. Exposed part of ovipositor brown. 

 Wings hyaline, the veins pale brownish. 



E-cdescribed from one female (type) collected at Oaxaca, Mexico 

 (A. Koebele). 



Ti/pf .— Cat. No. 5047, U.S.N.M. 



28. APHYCUS CEROPLASTIS Howard. 



Fig. 30. 



Aphycus ceroplastis Howard, Bull. No. 5, old ser., U. S. Dept. Agric, Bur. Ent., 

 1885, p. 18. 



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

 ocelli nearly in an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair about one- 

 half their own diameter from the eye margin; antennal scrobes 

 rather deep and narrow; eyes nearly smooth. Antennal scape flat- 

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