08 MEMOIES OF THE QFEENSLAXD MVSEVM. 



showed the clear, subhyaline band at the middle very indistinctly, not clear eut as in the 

 type spet-iniens excepting with several of them. Casually, in most of these specimens, the fore 

 wings appeared to be fumated throughout, the cloudiness gradually fading out distad. I have 

 since captured a female specimen of this species ou a window of a barn at Koma. Queensland, 

 October 6, 1911. 



Baiitat. — Australia — New South Wales (Gosford) ; Queensland (Eoma). 



Bost. — Aeanthococcid on Eucalyptus. 



Types. — The three females as indicated in foregoing." 



A female was taken from a window. November 2. 1912 at Proserpine, Queensland. The 

 propodeum is delicately jwlygonally reticulated. 



A. SIGNIPHORA AUSTRALIENSIS ORBICULATA new variety. Male. 



Dift'ers from the tyi)ical form in that the distal fiimation of fore wing consists of a 

 large circular spot centrally, the surrounding portions hyaline. 

 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 

 Type: No. Hy 296.5. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



2. SIGNIPHORA ASPIDIOTI Ashmead. 



The recent treatment of this species is also quoted from Girault (1913). 



" Sigtiiplwra aspidioti Ashmead, 1900, pp. 409, 412. 



On the same page that coquiUetti was described, Ashmead described a new species under 

 the name of aspidioti in the manner quoted below. This species is identical with coquiUetti 

 structurally, but differs in that the distal half of the antennal club is dusky, a phenomenon not 

 observed in the series of specimens of coquiUetti examined by me but which would be expected, 

 to occur in a number of specimens if it was merely an incidental variation. I cannot do- 

 otherwise than consider aspidioti valid. Its original description was in this manner: 



Femate. — Length, about 0.50 mm. Lemon or golden-yellow, head faintly dusky above; 

 apical half of antennal club, anterior half of mesonotum, and a broad transverse band at 

 base of abdomen, including nearly half its length, dark brown; wings with a broad fuscous- 

 band, as in previous species. 



Type.— Cat. No. 4859, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Mexico: San Louis. 



Host. — Rhynch: A.spidijjtus ncrii Bouche {^litdcra- A'all.). Bred November, 1.S94 by 

 Tyler Townsend. 



Besides the type sjiecinieu. I found another female specimen of it in the collections of 

 the United States National Museum labeled ' 470==. Bred from Aspidiotus nerii (:= hederw 

 Vail.), San Luis, Mex., November, '94.' This specimen is evidently an original one. I have 

 labeled it as a liomotype. The antennal club in aspidioti is more clavate and longer than that 

 of coquiUetti apj)areutly. The single type female is labeled as the specimen just noted,, 

 and, additionally, ' 4859,' the type number." 



Two females were taken from windows, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, August 3 and 

 October 9, 1912. This is the first Australian record. Later, a female was captured from a 

 window of an empty dwelling at Ingluim, Queensland, in February, 1913. 



3. SIGNIPHORA RETICULATA Girault. F^emale. 



The original description of this species is quoted. 



' ' Length 0.80 mm. Moderate in size for the genus. 



Black, the head and thorax dark metallic green, the wings perfectly hyaline, with no 

 proximal fumation. Venation, legs and antenna" brownish black. Proximal three tarsal joints 

 .ind much of the cephalic tibia, yellow. Mesonotum and vertex, finely, transversely lined. 

 Abdomen, the rectangular (wider than long) scutellum, the transverse mesopostscutellum and. 



