1908] Catalogue of the Genus Alaptiis 189 



whorls of uneven setae on the apical half (high power). Scape convexly curved, 

 about as long as the next four joints combined; pedicel subconic, as broad as 

 the scape, narrower than club, and as long as the next two joints combined; 

 ftmicle moniliform, each joint globular, funicle 1 abruptly smaller than the ped- 

 icle, and shghtly smaller than funicle 2; funicle joints 2 and 3 subequal, ftmicle 

 3 slightly larger, both somewhat larger than funicle 1 ; funicle joints 4 and 5 

 each increasing somewhat in size; funicle joint 5 at least twice larger than funicle 

 joints 2 and 3, and 1-3 larger than funicle 4; club undivided, abruptly larger than 

 the funicle and cylindrical oval in shape; it is from 1-3 to 1-2 wider than either 

 the scajjc or pedicel, and as long as the 4 apical funicle joints combined; club 

 bearing a few scattered setae, a little more nvunerous at base. (Fig. 2.) 



Described from two females mounted in l:)alsam, received for 

 determination from Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. 

 C, and labelled as follows: "Morrill No. 2008, Bred from Purple 

 scale, VIII, 10. 1907. E. A. Back." Therefore reared from 

 Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman) , the Purple scale, Orlando, Flor- 

 ida. Stage of host not indicated. 

 Type: No. 11858, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C, 



2 females. 



The characteristic of this species is the moniliform funicle of 

 the antennae, cjuite unlike in structure that of any other species, 

 of the genus now known. 



10. Alaptus caecilii species nova. 



Female: — Length 0.327 mm.; wing expanse, excluding cilia, 0.909 mm.; 

 width of fore wings, 0.0546 mm.; length of fore wings, 0.399 mm. ^Minute. 



General color uniforml}' bright lemon yellow. Eyes and ocelli red, legs uni- 

 formly pale yellowish, venation and margins of the' fore wings dusky yellow; 

 head slightly darker. Body normal, bearing scattered setae, apparentl}^ smooth! 

 Vertexal carina present, mnning across the cephalic margin of the vertex between 

 the eyes, and on each side back (caudad) around the inner margin of the eye, 

 over the apex of the eye, touching the lateral ocellus, around to the (outer) 

 caudo-lateral aspect of the eye; the part following the margin of the eye is 

 alternately dark and pallid as though consisting of small varicolored segments, 

 \yhile the transverse part is solid or with larger alternate segment-like colora- 

 tions, or pale laterad. After rounding the apex the carina is not so close to the 

 apical (caudal) eye margin. £3-03 subcordate in shape, moderately coarse, naked. 

 Ocelli in a triangle on the caudal part of the vertex ; apparently red and yellow, 

 or particolored, the lateral ocelli touching the occipital margin, and the distance 

 between them and the eyes is twice greater than that between either and the 

 margin of the eye. Median line of thorax pale, grooved; parapsidal furrows 

 apparently absent, at least inconspictious. Ovipositor shghtly exserted. 



Wings normal, as in globosicornis but larger, the fore wings margined with 

 dusky yellowish, the discal cilia entirely absent with the exception of a 

 single short middle row consisting of from 3 to 6 ciha. Hind wings mottled 

 with dusky, as in globosicornis; the row of cilia near the margin of the wing sur- 

 face, guarding the marginal cilia, longer and stronger (high power). Legs nor- 

 mal; anterior tibial spurs long, slender and curved; the others minute; as in 

 globosicornis. 



Antennae concolorous with body. vScape short, one margin nearly straight, 

 the other regularly convex, about one-third longer than the pedicel, and as thick 

 in the middle; pedicel ovate, the distal end truncate, however; thicker by 2 times 

 and somewhat longer than the first funicle joint; funicle joint 1 cvhndrical slen- 

 der, one-third shorter than the pedicel and funicle 2; the latter equal in width 



