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gite, the tergites beyond the first being also very narrowly tipped 

 Avitli red ; legs ruf o-testaceous, the hind coxae and trochanters above, 

 the femora at apex, and the tibiae and tarsi entirely infuscate; cly- 

 peus and mandibles dark rufous; palpi yellowish testaceous; anten- 

 nae beneath at base rufous (in rileyi the appendages are uniformly 

 lighter in color). 



Male. — Differs from the female in having the posterior ocelli even 

 farther apart; thorax black, the front and middle coxae and tro- 

 chanters white, hind legs darker, the coxae and trochanters black, 

 otherwise piceous ; anteimae black, only the scape red beneath ; second 

 and third tergites basally reddish and the apical bands more con- 

 spicuous. 



Type-host. — Chrysopa^ species. 



Type-locality. — Alhambra, California. 



Other localities. — Pasadena and Monrovia, California. 



Type.— Csit. No. 21645, U.S.N.M. 



Described from five females and three males, all reared by Mr. 

 R. S. Woglum, of the Bureau of Entomology, in connection with his 

 work on Pseudococcus citri. 



The female paratypes display a considerable degree of variation in 

 color from the type, paratypes c and d having the mesoscutum, except 

 a quadrate spot in front of the scutellum, the scutellum, and the 

 metapleura red and the legs paler. Both of the male paratypes have 

 the hind femora more reddish. 



Genus CRYPTUROPSIS Ashmead. 



Lymeon Ashmead, Ins. Life, vol. 7, 1894, p. 243, not Foerstei*. 



Ashmead's Lymeon as characterized by the only included species, 

 Lymeon annulicornis Ashmead, can not be the same as Foerster's, for 

 it is not Hemiteline but Mesostenine, having the characteristic vena- 

 tion of the latter tribe. In Ashmead's key to the Mesostenini it runs 

 directly to Crypturopsis xVshmead, with the genotype of which it is 

 congeneric. Lymeon annulicornis is very closely related to, if not 

 synonymous with, (Mesostenus) Crypturopsis diligens (Cresson) 

 judging from the description of that species. The open areolet is 

 apparently what led Ashmead to place this species in the Hemitclini. 

 The extremely long legs ascribed to Crypturopsis is largely a male 

 sexual character, and applies almost equally as well to the males in 

 some of the other genera tabulated by Ashmead. 



Genus MYERSIA Viereck. 



This genus, for which Viereck erected his family Myersiidae, is 

 apparently nothing more than a distinct genus in the tribe Stilpnini. 

 In general form it is extremely like the typical genus, St'ilpnus. Its 

 completely fused second and third tergites, which are separated only 



