NOTES ON COCCID-INFESTING CHALCIDOIDEA — ^11. 237 



Wings. Fore wings (fig. 1) nearly two and a half times as long as broad ; length, 

 •95 mm. ; breadth, '4 mm. Sub marginal : marginal, 7:9; radius with 4 cells ; 

 submarginal up to the clear pustules with 6-7 bristles ; 9-10 fine bristles in the 

 submarginal cell ; 14 thick bristles on the marginal (double from the fifth onwards, 

 the second bristle stout but shorter) and as many more projecting over the edge from 

 below. Surface otherwise evenly set with bristles, which are stronger on the cloud. 

 Hind wings four times as long as broad ; length, '82 mm. ; breadth, '21 mm. ; 

 marginal vein with 27 bristles before the hooks ; 4-5 minute bristles at the hooks ; 

 basally the hind wing is posteriorly concave. 



Fore legs : femur (4:1) one-third longer than the tibia ; anteriorly a ventral row 

 of 7-8 bristles from the base to two-thirds ; dorsally and subdorsally covered with 

 bristles to above one-half ; three widely spaced bristles (the first after two-thirds) 

 before the apex, the most distal longest and strongest ; posteriorly 8-9 subventral 

 bristles in two irregular rows. Tibia (4:1) rather flat ; apical comb with 4 spines ; 

 comb of first tarsal joint sloping across the apical half of the joint, containing 10 thin 

 spines. Mid-legs long ; coxae wdth 4 major bristles and about 30 smaller, anteriorly ; 

 femur (5:1) slender. At the base of the tibiae (17 : 2) are 5 stout sharp spines, two 

 anterior, two posterior, and one on the dorsal edge ; the spur just exceeds the first 

 tarsal joint, which bears besides the usual plantar spinules an antero-lateral nearly 

 ventral row (7-8) of sharp hyaline spines. Hind legs : coxae (5 : 3) bare on the upper 

 two-thirds, and three-fourths of the femur in length ; femur (10 : 3) nearly bare ; 

 tibiae (nearly 7 : 1) with 11-12 spines in the comb ; the dorsal bristles of the tibiae 

 are stouter from one-half to the apex. 



In the fore tarsus the proportions of the first four joints are 8, 4, 3, 3 ; in the mid 

 and hind legs the ratio is 19, 8, 7, 5. 



Abdomen : first tergite not markedly longer than the others ; all seven with one 

 row of bristles, 6 postero-medianly straight. Between the spiracles 8-9 bristles ; 

 behind and between the setigerous processes are 12 bristles. 



Length 1*5 mm. — 1*6 mm. ; alar expanse, about 2| mm. 



(^. Differs from the $ in the hyaline mngs and completely black thorax and 

 abdomen, the latter submetallic dark purple above. Head : the vertex and frons 

 below the anterior ocellus (the upper corners of the frontal sclerites, in fact) very 

 narrowly darker than in the $ ; the remainder of the face and mouth-edge, and 

 posteriorly up the genae half-way to the level base line of the eyes, flavescent, the 

 trophi being mainly yellowish, except for the darker stipes, and second maxillary joint 

 towards the apex. Antennae not so black as in the $ ; scape, except obscurely at 

 the apex, and under side of the pedicel yellow. Fore legs entirely, apex of mid coxae, 

 the trochanter, femur and tarsus, hind coxae, trochanter and tarsus, except last joint, 

 pale flavescent ; mid coxae above hind femora and tibiae entirely blackish ; mid 

 tibiae pale with a faint fuscous tinge. All the claws, empodia, and fifth hind tarsal 

 joint blackish. 



Head very broad, much wider (19 : 16) than in the $. Eyes with distinct, though 

 scattered, rigid pubescence ; separated just before one-fifth from the anterior ocellus 

 by two, and on the base line by three diameters. Toruli a little higher than in the $, 

 over one-half lying above the base line of the eyes ; scapal furrows short, uniting 



