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ing the oblique hairless line on the fore wing, extending from stigma 

 to near base of wing, of ApJteJhuis and having the three joints before 

 the club of the antenna? of equal length, as with Coccophagus. Other 

 female generic characters may be derived from the new species de- 

 scribed below. The ovipositor is strong and well extruded. The 

 femora are slightly swollen. The antennal club is ovate and flat- 

 tened; funicle joints 1, 2, and 3 subequal in width and each somewhat 

 shorter than the basal joint of the club; pedicel triangular, rather 

 broader and longer than first funicle joint ; club with sparse longi- 

 tudinal striae, as in Coccophaf/ns. Eyes densely hairy, but with very 



Fio. 14. — Mcfidia )tienc<nui : Female. (Jreatly enlarged (original). 



short hairs. Marginal vein of fore wings as long as submarginal; 

 stigmal obscure and almost lacking. 



Type. — The following species : 

 Mesidia mexicana, new species. (Fig. 14.) 



Female. — Length 0.G8 mm. ; expanse 1.4 mm. ; greatest width of 

 fore wing 0.24 mm. General color dark brown, nearly all of mesoscu- 

 tellum except anterior border yellowish ; all coxa?, femora, and an- 

 tenna' brownish; tibia^ and tarsi whitish; wing veins dusky. All of 

 mesonotum, except light portion of scutellum, finely and closely 

 aciculate, as is also the mesoscutum. 



Type.—^o. 10298, U. S. National Museum. Described from 9 

 female specimens reared from an AleyrodeH collected on '' Palo de 

 Gusano '' by C. H. T. Townsend at 8. Francisco del Peal, Tabasco, 

 Mexico, July 1, 188T. 



Genus AZOTXJS Howard. 



A.w^(/^ Ilowai-a. IToc. Eat. Soc. Wash.. Vol. IV. No. 2. 1898. pp. 1.38-1.39. 



This interesting genus w^as described in the male sex only in the 

 Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, Vol. lY, 



