THREE NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN DRYNNID PARASITES 

 OF RICE LEAF-HOPPERS. 



By S. A. RoHWER, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology , United States Department of Agriculture. 



The following three new species of Drynnids were received for 

 identification from the imperial entomologist of British India. One 

 of them, Digonatopus lucidus, was reared from a nymph of the Jassid, 

 rice leaf-hopper, NepJioteUix hipunctatus Fabricius, v^^hile the other 

 three were reared from the Fulgorid rice leaf-hoppers Sogata pussana 

 Distant, Sogata pallescens Distant, or Sogata distincta Distant. In 

 the case of the Fulgorid parasites the definite species of host was not 

 recorded. 



The types of all of the species are in tlie United States National 

 Museum. The descriptions were prepared with the highest power 

 of the Spencer binocular microscope. 



DIGONATOPUS LUCIDUS, new species. 



In Das Tierreicli this species runs to D. perpoUtus Perkins, but it 

 differs from that species in a number of ways. 



Female. — Length, 3 mm. Frons shining and with separate, 

 irregular dorsad-ventrad wrinldes; frontal carina complete, distinct; 

 vertex shining with a few granulations medianl}^; pronotum smooth 

 shining; constricted part of thorax shining and with some irregular 

 longitudinal wrinkles; propodeum shining and polished anteriorly, 

 posteriorly with well-separated transverse wrinkles; abdomen smooth 

 shining; body, except frons, and the legs with long sparse white 

 hair; anterior leg and antennae as in figures 1 and 2. Black; face, 

 narrow area above antennae and two basal joints of antennae 

 yellowish; legs brownish, with the hind femora and coxae and the 

 anterior femora black. 



Type locality. — Pusa, Bihar, India. Described from one female 

 reared, September 20, 1915, from a nymph of Nephotettix hipunctatus 

 (Fabricius) , by C. S. Misra. 



Type.— C&t. No. 22384, U.S.N.M. One female on pin and left 

 foreleg and antennae on Hym. slide 897. 



HAPLOGONATOPUS ORIENTALIS, new specieg. 



In the short fourth joint of the anterior tarsi this species differs from 

 the genus Haplogonaiopus as characterized by Kieffer and Perkins, 



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