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Ablerus perspeciosus new species. 



Female: Length, 0.65 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is white 

 at tip and extruded for a length equal to a fourth of the abdomen. 



Like capensis Howard but may be distinguished from that species 

 in that the fore wings bear a third fuscous patch which is proximad 

 from the base of the marginal vein and which is long-cuneate and 

 densely ciliate; it is oblique and extends nearly to the middle of the 

 second infuscation, a broad cross-stripe which differs in shape from the 

 one in capensis, being straight with parallel margins, narrowing to a 

 sort of neck cephalad, the neck against the base of stigmal vein and 

 bearing a dense patch of black bristles; the distal cross-stripe is also 

 different, shaped like an inverted ? but without the dot (it is like a 

 spread bat in capensis). Moreover, the legs are concolorous except the 

 knees, tarsi (except joint 5) and distal half of all tibiae. Head white 

 with a cross-strij^e of brown-black across below the eyes. Scape 

 (except at base and a broad middle portion), distal half of the pedicel, 

 funicles 2 and 4, silvery. Funicle 3 a little longer than wide, 1 and 4 

 subequal, twice longer than wide (4 stouter and not quite that length), 

 2 slightly shorter than L Pedicel barely shorter than funicle 1. 

 Parapsides white at distal apex. Cephalic tibiae all dusky save at tip. 



Described from four females on a slide labelled "from Diaspis 

 pentagona. Nishigahara, Japan, July IG, 1909. S. L Kuwana, 

 No. 33." 



Types: Catalogue No. 19930, U. S. N. M., the above 

 specimens. 



Habrocytus obscuripes Ashmead. 



Resembles Aetroxys caUidii Ashmead but that species has pubescence 

 as in Catolaccus and the postmarginal vein is distinctly shorter than the 

 marginal (mandibles not examined). Colored like Rhopalicus color a- 

 densis Ashmead but more slender, the parapsidal furrows slightly longer 

 and slightly more complete in that species and funicle 1 there is about 

 twice longer than wide, here only about a half longer than wide; also in 

 the larger species, there is an obtuse cross-carina on the distal scutellum. 

 The mandibles are aHke in both, 3- and 4-dentate. Somewhat like 

 Cecidostiba dendroctoni Ashmead but the latter has both mandibles 

 tridentate, the incomplete parapsidal furrows are more meso-transverse 

 and the antennae more slender, the funicle joints longer, 1 over thrice 

 longer than wide, 2 and 3 each nearly as long as 1. 



Many specimens reared in connection with the strawberry 

 weevil, St. Paul, Minnesota (S. Marcovitch). The scutellum 

 is simple. 



