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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



-SiGNIPHORA GIRAULn. 

 OF FEMALE. 



SIGNIPHORA GIRAULTI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 1 mm. Blue-black (when mounted on a 

 sUde brown) the face and legs more brownish, the tarsi whitish; face 

 with a few scattered punctures; mesonotum transversely striated; 

 fore wings with the anterior margin fumated out to end of the marginal 



vein and at this point extending 

 entirely across wing and dilated on 

 inner posterior margin (see fig. 2) ; 

 cilia at apex of anterior wing very 

 short, those at apex of hind wings 

 much longer; submarginal vein with 

 four bristles, marginal vein with 

 one at extreme base, and at apex 

 and on stigmal a group of five; near base of wing a bristle on the 

 disk of wing between submarginal vein and anterior margin of wing; 

 mid femora at apex above with two spines, with one on side and one 

 near lower margin; mid tibiae with one above near base and one at 

 apex with two on side at apex and 

 one near apex on lower margin; api- 

 cal spur of mid tibiae with about 14 

 teeth the basal two of which are 

 shorter and more slender than those 

 immediately following (fig. 3) . 



Described from four specimens fig. 3.— siqniphoea gieaulti. middle 

 (three on sUdes and one on card leg of female. 



point) labeled "La Lune and Moruga, Trinidad, from Dactylopius 

 citri, F. W. Urich, collector. 



Type.—C&t. No. 16041, U.S.N.M. 



In the illustration of the mng the bristles have been made more 

 distinct than they really are, in order to show more clearly. 



This species belongs to the nigra group as defined by Girault and 

 in his table ^ would run near corvina which has the f umation of the 

 wing quite different, the marginal fringes of the hind wing no longer 

 than those on the fore wing, etc. 



The species is named after Mr. A. A. Girault, who has recently 

 monographed this most interesting group. 



Family EULOPHID^. 



DEROSTENUS FULLOWAYI, new species. 



Female. — Length about 1 mm. Green, head and thorax above 

 including scutellum with minute thimblelike punctures, abdomen 

 except the brown apices of segments with very similar sculpture; 

 antennae brown, joints of funicle almost as broad as long, the first 



1 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 45, p. 227 and following. 



