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existing in this group I have found it impossible to definitely asso- 

 ciate these males with either species and consequently have re- 

 frained from describing them until their identity can be more cer- 

 tainly established. 



EUPELMUS COCCIDIVO-1US. new species. 



This species resembles closely the description and figure of E. 

 saissetiae Silvestri ^ and apparently has the same habit of attacking 

 scale insects, but it may be distinguished by the fact that the oviposi- 

 tor is much less strongly exserted, and is not dark at tip, the wingy 

 appear to be less strongly infumated, the legs are somewhat differ- 

 ently colored and the first tergite seems to be much more deeply 

 incised at apex. 



Female. — Length 2.75 mm. Head strongly sculptured, the face 

 and cheeks with conspicuous silvery white pubescence; viewed from 

 above, thick antero-posteriorly, twice as broad as long and as broad 

 as the thorax at tegulae; occiput immargined; frons above the 

 scrobes flattened, narrowest at the apex of scrobes where it is nar 

 rower than behind the posterior ocelli; ocelli in an equilateral tri- 

 angle, the ocellocular line equal to the diameter of an ocellus ; viewed 

 from in front, the head is slightly broader than high, subtriangular 

 with the vertex nearly straight and the sides and cheeks rounded; 

 {iutennal groves deep and sharpl}^ defined, confluent above, separated 

 below by a triangular plate which is sharply defined laterally and 

 extends upward more than half the length of scrobes; front ocellus 

 less than its own diameter above apex of scrobes, the latter more 

 finely sculptured within than the remainder of head ; eyes nearly cir- 

 cular and covered with very short inconspicuous pile; malar space 

 approximately as long as the rather short scape; scape distinctly 

 shagreened and about four times as long as broad ; pedicel approxi- 

 mately two and one-half times as long as its apical breadth, very 

 slightly longer than the third and fourth joints combined; third 

 joint small, about twice as broad as long and about lialf as long as 

 the fourth; fifth and sixth joints each longer than the fourth and 

 longer than broad; seventh subquadrate; eighth to tenth inclusive 

 slightly broader than long; club 3- jointed, subovate and about as 

 long as the three preceding joints combined. Thorax pubescent, less 

 strongly sculptured than the head, the mesepimeron finely lineolate- 

 reticulate and destitute of pubescence ; axillae narrowly separated at 

 base; propodeum laterally and the hind coxae outwardly, except a 

 triangular area down the middle, densely clothed with conspicuous 

 white pubescence; marginal and submarginal veins subequal, post- 

 marginal longer than stigmal, the submarginal with about eleven or 

 twelve stiff bristles dorsally; wings more than ordinarily densely 



2 Boll. Lab. Zool. Agr. Portici, vol. 9, 101-5, p. 289. 



