NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF APHELININ^. 



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No. 2 (1898), pp. 138-131), the type species being A.7narchaU HoAvard 

 reared by Dr. Paul jSIarchal at Paris from EpkUaspis piricola Del 

 Guercio {Diaspis osfrea^formis Signoret ) and subsequently by W. M. 

 Maskell from Asp/diotus hedera' Vallot {Aspidiotus nern Bouche) 

 received from Sydney, X. S. AV. 



Of the species described below a good series of females is before 

 the writer and the following generic characterization of the female is 

 therefore presented : 



Female. — Ovipositor apparently normally extruded to from one- 

 third to onedialf the length of abdomen. Antennae T-jointed, there 

 being no suture dividing the club into the two segments of which it is 

 evidently homologically composed. ( In tlie original description of 

 the male antenna it was called 8-jointed, although no true suture 



Fig. 15. — Axotus capcnsi.'s: Female, and antenna of maje. (Greatly enlarged (original.) 



occurs with the club in that sex.) Club nearly as long as last 3 

 funicle joints together; funicle joints 1, 2, and 4 nearly equal in 

 length, 1 rather the shorter of the three; funicle joint 3 much 

 shorter, although not so disproportionately short as in the male. All 

 tarsi 5-jointed; joint 1 nearly as long as the others together; middle 

 tibial spur about half as long as first tarsal joint. Marginal vein of 

 fore wings not as long as submarginal; marginal cilia not especially 

 long. 



Azotus capensis, new species. (Fig. 15.) 



FemaJe. — Length 0.0 mm.; expanse 1.8 mm.; greatest width of 

 fore wing 0.24 mm. General color black, with greenish metallic 

 reflections on notum ; antennse brown, with base and tip of scape, tip 

 of pedicel, and all of funicle joints 2 and 4 nearly white; all coxre and 

 femora brown, femora light at tips; trochanters white; front tibia3 



