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femora, the middle tibial spur pale brownish; the front tarsi blackish 

 brown, middle pair 3'eUowish white on third and fourth joint, some- 

 times also on the second and even on apex of first, otherwise blackish 

 brown, hind pair j^ellowish white except on last joint and firet extreme 

 base of the first joint. Wings banded as in H. quaylei except as 

 otherwise noted above. Exserted part of ovipositor sheaths pale 

 brown. Pubescence on head whitish, oa metapleura and hind coxae 

 silvery white, and on the notum of thorax blackish and inconspicuous. 

 Male. — SimUar to the female, except that the scape has a shallow 

 notch just beyond the middle on the upper side. Length of body, 1 .68 



mm. 



Described from five females, two males (type, allotype, and para- 

 types a to e) reared from Psewlococcvs material, undoubtedly from a 

 Coccinellid larva. Cape Town, South Africa. (Labeled, "bred from 

 Dactulopius or Coccinelhd".) The manuscript name appHed by 

 Dr. Ashmead has been adopted for this species. 



n/pe.—Cat. No. 22036, U.S.N.M. 



10. HOMALOTYLUS GCULATUS (GirauU). 



Plate 39, fi;^. 10. 



Ilemaenasoidea ocnlata Giraui.t, Annals Entoni. Boc. Amer., vol. 9, Oct., 1916, 

 p. 308. 

 Pemale. — Head shaped as in II. africnnus yet distinctly more nar- 

 rowly oval in outline as viewed from in front, being about one-fifth 

 longer than wide; convergence of dorsal orbits and position of ocelli 

 as in //. africanus; face slightly protuberant betvreen antennal bases. 

 Scape Unear and compressed, not dilated; pedicel as long as the first 

 and three-fourths of the second funicle joint; first funicle joint nearly 

 a half longer again than thick, the rest gradually shortening, the sixth 

 only a little longer than thick; club about equal to the last three 

 funicle joints combined; mandibular dentition approximately as in 

 //. africanus. Thorax and abdomen of normal structure, the ovi- 

 positor protruded for a length about equal to one-half that of abdomen. 

 Wings practically as in II. africanus, except that the medial cross- 

 band is a trifle wider and reaches slightly farther beyond apex of 

 venation, the subapical hyaline oval spot rather small and about 

 equal to one-half or a httle less than half the width of the intervening 

 space to apex of disk; the postm.arginal vein equal to the stigmal 

 vein. In other structural details similar to H.Jlaminius, quaylei, etc. ; 

 the sculpture on the head, axillae and scutellum considerably finer 

 and more alutaceous, the pin punctures on head evanescent and hardly 

 evident without the closest scrutiny; sculpture of the other parts of 

 the body not differing noticeably from that of Il.ifaminius, although 

 finer on abdomen. Length of body, (1.48 to) 1.65; length of head, 

 0.57; width of head, 0.48; width of vertex, 0.096; length of eye, 0.48; 



