fi40 HYMENOPTEROUS INSECTS-HOWARD AXD ASHMEAD. vol.xv.ii. 



Oil outer niargin; spiracular hairs of third abdominal segment longand 

 distinct. 



Type.—^o. 3258, U.S.N.M. One female specimen reared from Vin- 

 sonia stelUfera, Pinidiiloya, Ceylon, by E. Ernetst Green. 



Genus COMYS, Fcerster. 

 Comijs, FfERSTER, Hymenop. Stud., II, 185(i, p. 114. 



COMYS RUFESCENS (Motschulsky). 



Chiloneunts n(fescens, Motschulsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, XXXVI, 1863 

 p. 53. 



This is the only one of the Motschulsky species recognized. The 

 Eussian author's specimens were taken by Nietner ou the summit of 

 Mount Patannas, and those received from Mr. Green were reared by 

 him from Lecanium coffecv. 



Genus HOMALOPODA, Ho^A^a^d. 

 Uomalopoda, Howard, Jouru. Linn. Soc. Zool., XXV, 1894, p. 90. 



HOMALOPODA CRISTATA, Howard. 

 Homalopoda cristaia, Howard, Jourii. Liun. Soc. ZooL, XXV, 1894, p. 91. 



The type specimens of this monotypical oenus were collected by Mr. 

 H. II. Smith ou the Island of St. Vincent, British West Indies. A sin- 

 gle female was received from Mr. Green, reared from Aspidiotus secret u,s. 

 The insect has an Asiatic facies and may have been can ied to the West 

 Indies from the East Indies under scale insects on certain plants which 

 were being imi)orted. 



Genus APHYCUS, Mayr. 

 Aplnjciis, Mayr, Verb. k. k. zooL-bot. Gesellscb. Wien, 1875, p. 695. 

 APHYCUS LICHTENSI^, new species (Howard). 



Female.— hewgth, 1.3 mm.; expanse, 3 mm. General color reddish 

 yellow; abdomen black, antennal scape black, whitish at tip; pediccd 

 black, white at tip; funicle joints 1 to 4 black, fourth whitish above, 5 

 and 6 yellowish- white; club black; metascutellum blackish, tegulic 

 (hirk at tip, mesoscutum with two curved transverse narrow black 

 lines, one on each side, reaching nearly to middle; all tiluie with three 

 black bands more or less interrupted. Antennal scape moderately 

 widened below; pedicel twice as long as wide, as long as three first 

 funicle joints together; funiclejoints gradually increasing in width from 

 1 to 4; 5 and G suddenly wider and longer. Club tiattened, obliquely 

 truncate, as long as funiclejoints 5 and G together. 



Tijpe.—^o. 3259, U,S.:N".M. Eight female specimens reared from Lieh- 

 tensia koebeJei by E. Ernest Green, Punduloya, Ceylon. 



Genus ARRHENOPH AGUS, AuriviHius. 

 Arrhenophafjus, Acrivillius, Ent. Tidsk. IX, 1888, pp. 144-145. 



