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Hemaenasoidea oculata new species. 



Female: Lenf,^th, about 1.7-3 mm., excluding the ovipositor. 



Dull honey yellow, the following embrowned parts: Center of 

 cephalic pronotum, scutum, abdomen, tip of ovipositor valves, tibiae 

 except at ends (caudal tibise much darker, purplish), scape, pedicel and 

 funicles 1-2. Fore wings embrowned at base and from the bend of the 

 submarginal vein distad to about a point as far distad of the apex of the 

 stigma] vein as that vein is long; this central infuscation is followed by 

 a discal (longer than wide) naked area inclosed by discal cilia; otherwise 

 the fore wing very finely ciliate discally but naked between the two 

 infuscations. Venation dusky yellow, Scape reaching to the cephalic 

 ocellus, cylindrical, the pedicel two and a half times longer than 

 wide at apex, longer than any funicle joint; funicle 1 longest, a half 

 longer than wide, 5 slightly longer than wide, 6 quadrate. Club about 

 half the length of the funicle, obliquely truncate, not enlarged. Body 

 finely scaly. Scutellum with a few scattered, rather coarse hairs. 

 Pronotum moderately large. Axillae large. Legs slender. Middle 

 femora, tarsi (except last joint), ovipositor valves (except at apex) and 

 antennae distad, whitish. Club truncate from base of joint 1. 



Described from a female on a slide in the U. S. N. M., 

 labelled "Reared from Pseudococcus citri on bamboo, Manila, 

 Compere, July, 1909. No. 24. 



Type: Catalogue No. 19949, U. S. N. M., the above speci- 

 men on a slide. 



