48 MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



2. COCCOPHAGUS AURANTU Howard. 



" Female. — Length, 0.7 imn.; expanse, 1.1(3 mm.; greatest width of fore wing, 0.18 mm. 

 Joint 1 of funicle shorter and narrower than pedicel and than joint 2. which is subequal to 

 pedicel in length and width, joint 3 shorter than joint 2. Surface of thorax smooth. General 

 color light brownish yellow; occipital line, margin of pronotum and a median stripe on 

 mesoscutum, scapulae, outer edge of metanotum, abdomen, especially lateral margin, darker; 

 antenniE and legs light fuscous; eyes black, ocelli red; wings hyaline, veins slightly dusky. 

 Fore wings with disk densely, finely and uniformly ciliate, costal margin with very short 

 marginal cilia beginning at stigma, growing gradually longer at tip of wing and on lower 

 outer margin becoming half the width of wing; broadest portion of wing beyond stigma; 

 hind-wings as with preceding species. 



Described from two female specimens reared May S), 1SS7, by D. W. Coquillett from 

 Aspidiotus aurantii, var. citrinus, from San Gabriel, Cal. " 



3. COCCOPHAGUS ALBISCUTELLUM Girault. 



A. COCCOPHAGUS ALBISCUTELLUM SCHILLERI new variety. 



Female: — Lengtli. OJlj nun. 



Extremely like the typical form but the caudal femora are not dnsky as in that form, 

 the fore wings are only obscurely dusky xiuder the marginal vein and are somewhat narrower, 

 the incisions of the abdomen appear as so many white cross-stripes and the proximal tarsal 

 joints are shorter. No type. 



From one female taken in forest, December 9, 1913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



A second one same place, June 17, 191-t. In this specimen, the head was orange 

 yellow. 



A female of the typical form, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, jungle. May 24. The 

 scutellum is more yellowish. The antenna; a little slenderer, the fore wings less distinctly 

 infuscated. Compared with type. The North Queensland specimen bore a distinct, narrow 

 median groove on the scutellum and tliis is distinctly indicated on the type specimen now in 

 balsam. The fore wing is infuscated under the marginal vein only. The ovipositor is as in 

 Alileras. Stigmal vein directed cejihalad. Hind wing acute, with about five lines of discal cilia. 



4. COCCOPHAGUS FILIUS new species. 



FemaJe: — Length, 0.75 mm. 



A'ery similar to bosieeUi Girault but the club is wholly black, the scutellum contrasts 

 being brilliant lemon yellow, the axilla; and mesopleurum are black, also upper occiput and 

 the funicle joints are all somewhat shorter. The ovipositor valves just tip the abdomen. 

 Otherwise alike in every detail. The ovipositor is inserted farther distad, a little distad of the 

 middle. 



From one female taken by sweeping in forest, April 28, 1914. 



Hnbitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. E-yS9f4, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 

 of Aphelinus ruskini. 



5. COCCOPHAGUS TRIGUTTATUS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Differs from the generic diagnosis in bearing a very sliort ring-joint and the hind 

 tibial spurs are double. 



Intense golden yellow (greenish yellow), the wings hyaline, the antennae and legs 

 concolorous. On the distal half of abdomen, three conspicuous round black spots from dorsal 



