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wing (fig. 15) about 1.2 by 0.56 mm.; radial sector thick aud extend- 

 ing almost to the tip of the wing; cubitus faint but rather long and 

 straight. Wings marked with rusty red as indicated in tho figure. 

 In some cases the spots may almost miite to form two irregular trans- 

 verse bands. Hind wing without marks, but with more or less 

 shading along the rather thick vein. Hind legs with the femora and 

 the proximal portion of the tibiae dusky, the remainder yellowish; 

 tibiae 0.416 mm. long, armed with very stout spines; tarsus, proxi- 

 mal segment 0.096 mm., armed with a few stout spines; distal seg- 

 ment 0.072 mm,, covered, especially on the distal portion, with many 

 minute setae, and with a few spines. Claws 0.012 mm.; paronychium 

 long, acute, and curved. 



Adult male. — Similar to the female; length from vertex to tip of 

 claspers about 0.79 mm.; antennae absent in the specimen at hand; 

 legs also absent, all except the femora and tibiae of the hind legs. 

 These are colored as in the female, the former measuring 0.18 mm. 

 and the latter 0.32 mm. Forewing about 0.928 mm. long, marked 

 as in the female; hind wing 0.8 mm. long, unmarked. Claspers 

 (fig. 16) brown in color excepting the tips, which are yellowish, 0.135 

 mm. long, upcui"ved and armed with a few small spines. Penis yel- 

 low, as long as the claspers, bulbous at the base and considerably 

 curved upward. 



Material studied, types and paratypes, and material collected by 

 S. I. Kuwana in Japan at Fukuoka, 1907. 



Type.— Cat. No. 19063, U.S.N.M. 



The food plant is orange. Material was collected by C. L. Marlatt, 

 Hokato, Japan, May 21, 1901. This same species was also taken by 

 Mr. Marlatt at Kumomoto, Japan, May 17, 1901. 



ALEUROLOBUS OLIVINUS (SUvestri). 



Aleurodes olivinus Silvestri, Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. della R. Scuola Supe- 

 riore d' Agricoltura in Portici, vol. 5, 1911, p. 214. 



We have seen no examples of this species, but the excellent descrip- 

 tion and figures given by Doctor Silvestri enable us to place it in 

 this genus with considerable assurance. It is reported by Prof. 

 Silvestri as occurrmg in central and southern Italy. The host is 

 olive. A translation of the origmal description is given. 



Adult female (fig. 4). — Body cream-colored or whitish ocher 

 sprinkled with a white waxy powder, with a fulvous band upon the 

 pronotum, two submedian bands of the same color upon the meso- 

 notum, and two lateral bands upon the metanotum. The abdomen 

 has upon its first tergite two submedian fvdvous spots, from the third 

 to the fifth tergite a median transverse band a little in front of the 

 margm, and upon the sixth tergite another fulvous median spot. 

 The fifth urostemite is almost whoUy blackish. The wings are 

 sprinkled with a white waxy powder slightly tending toward a cine- 



