ART. 4. NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA GAHAN. 13 



COCCOPHAGUS OCHRACEUS Howard. 



Coccophagus ocJiraceus Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. 1, 1895, 



p. 38. 

 Coccophagus bifasciaticorpus Girault, Soc. Ent., vol. 31, 1916, p. 44. 



Types of both the above named species are in the National Collec- 

 tion and are identical in every way. The species is rather easily 

 recognized by reason of its conspicuous dark markings, a large blotch 

 at the middle of pronotum, the entire propodeum, a transverse band 

 on the abdomen sometimes embracing the whole apical half of abdo- 

 men being black or blackish and the axillae usually dark brownish. 

 The praescutum is uniformly and closely set Avitli rather coarse liairs, 

 but lacks paired setae except for one pair at the posterior margin 

 just in front of the scutellum ; the scutellum has three pairs of setae 

 and is otherwise bare ; the female antennae are distinctly clavate, the 

 club distinctly thicker than the funicle and subequal to it in length; 

 the first funicle joint although the smallest joint is somewhat longer 

 than broad, while funicle joints two and three are subequal and each 

 about as long as the pedicel. None of the funicle joints in the fe- 

 male are strongly corrugated. The male is like the female except 

 that the antennae are much longer, the first funicle is the thickest 

 joint, the following joints successively diminishing in thickness and 

 all of the flagellar joints are strongly corrugated. 



The types of ochraceus were from Alameda County, California, 

 reared from Lecanium, species on Adenostema fasciculatum. The 

 types of hifdsciaticorpus were from Cape Town, South Africa, reared 

 from Lecanium hemisphuericum Targioni. In addition to the type 

 material the writer has seen specimens from Berkeley, California, 

 sent in by E. O. Essig and from Queenstown, South Africa, collected 

 by E. M. Rust and sent in by Harold Compere, all of which are said 

 to have been reared from Saissetm oleae, Bernard. 



Coccophagus javensis Girault is very similar to this species but 

 differs in that the joints of the funicle in the female are all subequal 

 in length and thickness and not narrower than the club which tapers 

 gradually from base to apex and all of the flagellar joints are strongly 

 corrugated. The propodeum is not as dark as in ochraceus although 

 more or less fuscous and the axillae are not darker than the scutellum. 



ANERISTUS CEROPLASTAE Howard. 



Aneristus ceroplastae Howard. Can. Ent., 1895, vol. 27, p. 351. 

 Aner-istus ceroplastae Howard, Psyche, vol. 7, 1896, suppl. p. 18. 

 Coccophagus orientalis Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18. 1896, p. 633. 

 Aneristus orientalis Girault, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 12, 1917, p. 88. 

 Prococcophagus orientalis Timberlake. Proc. Ent. Soc. Haw., vol. 3, 1918, 

 p. 404. 



The types of Aneristus ceroplastae and Coccophagus orientalis 

 have been carefully compared with the result that the writer is of 



