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JAMES WATERSTON. 



broad, with 5 bristles, 2 outer short, the innermost moderate, and the central 

 pair long, exceeding the tip of the abdomen and reaching to about the level of the 

 penis hooks when the genitalia are exserted. The lateral hooks of the penis single, 

 short and thick. 



Length, ■7--76 mm. ; alar expanse, 1*45 mm.-l'55 mm. 



Gold Coast: Aburi, ex Ckionaspis minor, 19. v. 16, 2 3*(^ {W. H. Patterson). 



Type. ^ in the British Museum. 



Genus Aspidiotiphagus, Howard. 

 Aspidiotiphagus, Howard, Insect Life, vi, 1894, p. 230. 

 Aspidiotiphagus Citrinus, Craw, Destructive Insects, Sacramento, Cal., 1891, 

 p. 28, lig. 



Fig. 0. Aspidiotijihaqus citrinus, 

 Craw, $ ; inaudible. 



The following examples of this species have been received by the Imperial 

 Bureau : — 



Ceylon: Peradeniya, ex Chionaspis graminis, 24.vi.13, 2 2$ (^4. Rutherford). 

 Rhodesia: Salisbury, ex Aspidiotus camelliae, 16.ix.09, 5 ?$ (/2. W. Jack). 

 Gold Coast: Aburi, ex Chionasjns minor, 19.1 16, 2 <^^, 7 ?? {W. H. 

 Patterson). 



The above specimens agree very completely amongst themselves and with a 

 single female in the British Museum (determined by Dr. L. 0. Howard) from 

 Grenada (Howard, Linn. Soc. Lond., ZooL, xxvi, 1896, p. 156). 



Family Miscogasteridae. 



Although the genus described below has been known to me for some time, I 

 had not ventured to regard it as new till lately, when Mr. A. A. Girault returned 

 an example of the genotype as unknown to him. The systematic position of 

 Eriaporus is a little uncertain. It is formally a Miscogasterid and Mr. Girault would 

 go further and assign it a place in the Pireninae. But the three-jointed maxillary 

 palpus and the deeply advanced axillae are anomalous for the subfamily, so far 

 as I know it. 



Genus Eriaporus, nov. 



$. Head, from in front, broad, contracted towards the mouth-edge. Clypeal 

 edge straight medianly, horizontal ; sides straight, sloping towards the genal 

 keel. Toruli quadrangular, superiorly trunctated, placed just clear of the base 

 line of the eyes ; post-scapal hollows deep, inclined at an acute angle towards 

 one another and meeting in front of the anterior ocellus. The area actually 



