NOTES ON COCCID-INFESTING CHALCIDOIDEA— III. 317 



In a recent letter my friend, Dr. L. Masi, suggests the name italicum,'^ Masi, for 

 the species which I have already discussed (Bull. Ent. Res., 1916, p. 249). 

 C. hteviUatus, A. Costa (1882), has probably nothing to do with italicum. Dr. Masi 

 has recently ascertained that Costa's type is lost. 



The following key to the females of Eusemion may be given :— 

 Mandibles tridentate ; club of antenna distinct, funicular joints gradually expanded, 



the sixth widest comigemm, Wlk. 



Mandibles bidentate (the two upper teeth being fused into a broad cutting edge) ; 

 club and funicle band-like, the former indistinctly separated, only the first 

 normal funicular joint a httle narrower, 2-6 equal in width. 



Scape subquadrate, large, its greatest length (from head of the bulla to 

 the antero-ventral angle) just equal to the funicle measured along 



the dorsal edge italicum, Masi. 



Scape subtriangular (its dorsal edge convex), smaller, only as long as 

 the first four funicular joints pattersoni, Waterst. 



Genus Habrolepis, Forst. 

 Habrolepis, Forster, Hym. Stud., ii, 1856, p. 34. 

 Four species of this remarkable genus have been described, and only one as yet 

 from Africa (H. oppugnati, Silv., Boll. Lab. Portici, 1915, p. 299, figs. Iv and Ivi). 

 From H. oppugnati the present species differs conspicuously in the anteimae, 

 especially in the funicle. Professor Silvestri's species was reared from Aspuhotus 

 oppugnatus, Silv., fomid at Nefasit, in Eritrea. 



Habrolepis apicalis, sp. nov. 



^. Blackish brown, the head and thorax a little darker than the abdomen, the 

 under surface of which is shghtly fighter than the upper. Wings hyafine ; veins of 

 forewings yellowish, with only a faint and limited clouding about the marginal. 

 Trophi "anteriorly pale; cardo, stipes and mentum smoky. Antennae with the 

 bulla and scape whitish, the rest yellow, tinted ; pedicel (especially superiorly) 

 and funicle faintly embromied ; apical fourth of the club with a distinct brown spot. 

 Fore legs pale yellow ; the tibia narrowly and indefinitely near the base along the 

 dorsal edge and the tarsi a little embro^^med. Mid legs purer yellow, with brown 

 coxae, and faintlv banded with the same colour for one-fourth the length, begimimg 

 at one-fifth from the base. Hind legs mainly brown ; the trochanters, bases of 

 femur and tibia (narrowly) and apex of tibia (broadly) paler. Tarsi hardly so dark 

 as the femur. 



Head, from in front, broader than long (11 : 9) ; eyes rather small, mde apart, 

 separated at the anterior ocellus by about one-half and on the base hne by six- 

 sevenths of the width of the head. Tomli mid-way between the anterior ocellus 

 and the clvpcal edge and well above the base line of the eyes, large, oval, equidistant 

 superiorlv from one another and the orbits. Clypeal edge concave. Pattern of 

 face distinctlv raised, coarse, everywhere transverse. Five pairs of bristles between 

 and below the torufi and another pair on the clypeus well above the edge ; on 



* See Masi, Ent. Mo. Mag. (3) ui, AprU 1917, p. 80. 



