634 HYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS— HOWARD AND ASHMEAD. vol. xvm. 



length to pedicel and first two funicle joints, pedicel a little longer 

 tlian wide, triangular, first lunicle joint longer than pedicel and longer 

 tliau second funicle joint, second and third joints each successively 

 shorter, but all of the same width, as also the two basal joints of club; 

 the longitudinal elevations of funicle joints and club very strong and 

 numerous, funicle joints with stout bristles in addition. Head and 

 thorax with short and rather close black hairs, very faintly shagreened, 

 but shining; hind thighs somewhat thickened, spur of middle tibia' 

 unusually long but slender. General color black with strong jiurplish 

 reflections; all tarsi nearly white, tips of front and middle til)i;e also 

 whitish, middle tibial spur white; fore wings infuscated to stigma, 

 nearly hyaline at extreme base, tip perfectly hyaline. 



Tyi>('- — No. 3-48, U.S.X.^I. Thirteen s})ecimens, reared by E. Ernest 

 Gieen, Punduloya, Ceylon, from Ceroplastvs (ictinifonni.s, Lceunhnn 

 viridc, Lccanium coffca', and Bactylopius (Khmidum. Seems to be an 

 abundant and general scale insect parasite in Ceylon. 



Differs radically from all other species of Coccophagus known to me 

 with the exception of C.purpnreus, Ashmead, described from a specimen 

 captured in Florida. The description of the latter species is short, but 

 the wings are said to be entirely fuscous. In color, in the presence of 

 more or less infuscation of the wings, and in the absence of a scutellar 

 spot, the two forms agree. 



COCCOPHAGUS FLAVESCENS, new species (Howard). 



Female. — Length, 1.1! mm.; expanse, tiA) mm. Eyes hairy, well sepa- 

 rated, ocelli forming a right-angled triangle; antenna; long, scape reach- 

 ing nearly to tip of head ; first funicle joint twice as long as pedicel and 

 three times as long as wide; i-ecoiid funicle joint two-thirds as long as 

 first, and three-fourths as long as second; all subeipial in width. Clul) 

 not swollen, as long as two preceding funicle joints together. Thorax 

 well rounded and furnished with sparse, rather long, brown pile; the 

 two ai)ical biistles of the mesoscutellum long, white, each arising from 

 a minute black spot. General surface almost smooth; no shagreeuing 

 can be discovered. General color dark honey yellow; antennre brown- 

 ish, a little lighter at joints; dorsal surface of abdomen dusky; the 

 fore wings slightly infuscated. 



Male. — What is apparently the male of this species differs radically 

 in color from the female, bnt in no other important particulars. It is 

 uniforndy black with the exception of the tarsi and the tips of middle 

 tildie, which are dirty white. 



Types. — Xo. 3li 4:9, U.S.N. ^L; four female and three male specimens 

 reared from T.eca)nnm eoffea\ by E. Ernest Green, Punduloya. Ceylon. 



Genus PHYSCUS, Howard. 



Physciis, HoWAm), Eevis. AiilieliniiiM' N. A., Tcobii. Ser. No. ].!'. 8. Dejit. A_ric., 

 Div. Eutoni., 1895, p. 43. 



