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and a roundish area below the tegula, yellow. Club distinct but 

 not much wider than the funicle; funicle 3 a little longer than 

 wide, 1 nearly twice longer than wide; pedicel barely as long 

 as funicle 3, subequal to club 2 ; all club joints wider than long. 

 Flagellum (except the pedicel) longitudinally striate. Mandi- 

 bles subtruncate, but three weak, obtuse teeth indicated. 



Three females in the collection of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. 



Habitat, Perth, West Australia. 



Types, Cat. No. 20684, U. S. Nat. Mus., three females on 

 tags with a slide bearing a head. 



Coccophagus australiensis, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.25 mm. Agrees with the description of 

 lunulatus Howard but the scutellum does not always bear the 

 black area at apex and funicle 1 is a little longer than the pedi- 

 cel ; scutum and scutellum with rather dense, close, yellowish 

 pubescence. The male, apparently, has no yellow on the body. 



From four females in the U. S. National Museum (G. Com- 

 pere, 766). 



Habitat, Swan River, Australia. 



Types, Cat. No. 20685, U. S. Nat. Mus., two females on 

 tags. 



Cotypes in the Queensland Museum, a female on a tag. 



Here is another one of those puzzling species, so similar to a 

 species of another region yet with slight differences and prob- 

 ably wholly distinct as to origin. The species is founded on 

 the supposition that it is an aboriginal of Australia. Hence, if 

 so, rooted in a stock wholly remote from that of lunulatus. 

 Later I found that the Australian species differs in having the 

 scutellum hairy. 



Genus ABLERUS Howard 



Ablerus emersoni, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor, which 

 is extruded for a length equal to a fourth or more that of the 

 abdomen and is white at tip (the valves, that is). 



