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SrODOCHLAMTS PoULTONI, sp. n. 



Colour dark olivaceous-greeu. Head very finely and closely punctured ; clypeus 

 produced in front, subquadrate, a transverse, impunctate, obsolete carina extends 

 across from the anterior portion of the eyes ; the margin of the clypeus is very 

 slightly raised and black ; the eyes are deeply sunk into the head. Antenna pitchy, 

 pubescent, the first joint furnished with a number of stiff golden coloured bristles at 

 apical extremity. Trophi ferrugineous. Palpi pitchy at extremities, and metallic. 



Thorax very thickly and closely punctured, the punctures being coarser towards 

 lateral margins ; anterior angles acute in front, half as wide again as long ; anterior 

 margins smooth, slightly sinuate, very slightly emarginate near anterior angles ; 

 lateral margins emarginate, margins slightly crenulate ; posterior angles emarginate 

 and sinuated ; prothorax thickly pubescent, with rather long golden hairs. 



Scutellum punctured, margins rather darker. 



Elytra clothed with a very fine pubescence, longer than broad, rather obsoletely 

 punctured ; three slightly impunctate striae on each elytron ; very finely and thickly 

 punctured round the lateral margins, which are slightly emarginate. Humeral 

 prominences rather prominent, elytra terminating abruptly towards the apex. 



Anterior tibiae tridentate, pubescent and punctured, shining, with slightly coppery 

 edges, the rest black ; tarsi simple and pitchy, ungues simple. Femora ferruginous, 

 with a coppery reflection, hairy ; coxse ferrugineous. Posterior tibise slightly toothed 

 on outside edge, and furnished with a number of stiff pitchy hairs, slightly coppery, 

 apex black, rather thickly punctured, the apex furnished with a row of stiff pitchy 

 bristles ; tarsi thickly pubescent, inner claw simple, outer bifid at apex. Pygidium 

 covered with a thick mass of long golden hairs. Under-side ferrugineous, with a 

 coppery reflection, thickly punctured, and clothed with a pale pubescence, abdominal 

 segments punctured ; margins impunctate, and the centre devoid of pubescence. 



Long. Corp., 66 mm. 

 Hob. : Colombia, in Mus. Hope. 



I have named this species in honour of the successor of the late 



Prof. Westwood, as Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of 



Oxford. 



Oxford : February, 1895. 



ON ALEURODES CARPINI, KOCH. 

 BY J. W. DOUGLAS, F.E.S. 



Aleueodes caepini, Koch. 

 Aleurodes carpini, Koch, Aphidcn, p. 327, fig. 395 (1857) ; Fcaueufeld, 

 Verhandl. z.-b. Gesells. Wien, p. 795 (18G7) ; Sign., Ess. s. 1. 

 Aleurodes, p. 383 (1868). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen light orange-yellow, antennae and legs paler; wings 

 pure white, spotless. Expanse of wings, 3 mm. 



Larva adult, or pupa. — Pale yellow, short-rouiuled-oval, convex. Dorsum 



