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University of California PuUications. [Entomology 



MALE 



Entirely similar to the female in structural and colorational 

 characters, except that the last two funicle joints are brownish 

 instead of white. Length, 1.2 mm. 



Described from two females and two males (type, allotype, 

 and paratypes a and h) reared from Pseudococcus solani (Cock- 

 erell). Uplands, California, June, 1914 (C. P. Clausen), Clausen 

 no. 23. 



Pseudococcobius clauseni, n. sp. 



Fig. 5 

 MALE 

 Head rather thin anteroposteriorly, as seen from in front 

 about one-fifth wider than long ; frontovertex about twice as long 

 as Made, the dorsal orbits of eyes parallel ; ocelli in an acute- 

 angled triangle, the posterior pair about one-half their own 

 diameter from the eye-margin, and twice their own diameter 

 from the occipital margin ; eyes large, about one-fifth longer 



Fig. 5. Pseudococcohius clauseni: A, antenna of male; B, right man- 

 dible of male, exterio-dorsal view; C, same, anterior view. 



than wide, thinly pubescent with short pile ; cheeks as long 

 as the width of the eyes; face with a moderately developed 

 prominence between the antennae, the scrobes rather shallow, 

 narrow and meeting above; mandibles (fig. 5, B and C) rather 

 wide at apex with three sharp, nearly equal teeth, which are 

 longer than in P. fumipennis. Antennal scape (fig. 5, A) flat- 

 tened, moderately expanded below, about one-third as wide as 



