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brown, light at tips; middle and hind tibia^ nearly white, Avith two 

 brown bands; front tarsi lioht brown, terminal joint dark brown; 

 middle and hind tarsi nearly white, the last joint brown. Eyes 

 crims(m. Marginal vein of fore wings brown; wings hyaline, with a 

 transA'erse brown patch below marginal vein and another one nearer 

 tip of wing; an oblique shade at point where submarginal vein turns 

 uj)ward to costa. 



Male. — Length O.G mm.; expanse 1.8 mm.; greatest width of fore 

 Aving 0.24 mm. Antenna^ uniformly light brown. Legs as in female, 

 except that middle and hind tibia^ are uniformly brown, light at 

 extremities, and that all tarsi are brownish. In the fore Avings the 

 broAvn shade beloAv the marginal vein is present, but the outer broAvn 

 shade is much fainter. 



Type.— 'No. 10299, U. S. National Museum. Described from 12 

 male and 17 fenuile specimens l)red from an Asterolecanivm on 

 Eiiryops tenuissimus^ Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, by C. P. 

 Lounsbury, October, 1898. 



Note. — Ablenm pulelirhe pn Zehntner (De Plantenluizen van het 

 suikerriet op Java, VIII, IX, pp. 10, 11, Plaat ii, figs. 1.5, 16, 17), 

 reared from AJeyrodes loiu/ieornis Zehntner in JaA'a, belongs to this 

 genus and greatly resembles this species, judging from Zehntner's 

 Avell-draAvn figures. 



Genus ENCARSIA Foerster. 



Encarsia Foerster. Kleine Moiiujiniphieii. 1878, pp. <>r)-(it;. (Type. Envarski tri- 



eolor Foerster. ) 



Table of Species. 



1. Tarsi of middle legs 4-jointed ; joints 4 and .'» apparently coalesced 2 



Middle tarsi plainly S-jointed 3 



2. Pedicel and first funiole joint subequal in length hiteola Howard. 



First funicle joint shorter than pedicel and than second fnnicle joint. 



qualntancei, new species. 



3. Club tlattened flavielava Howard. 



Not flattened 4 



4. First funicle joint swollen aiujelica Howard. 



Not swollen 5 



5. Pedicel and first funicle joint subequal in length fi 



Pedicel shorter than first funicle joint 8 



Pedicel longer than first funicle joint, which is distinctly shorter than 



second 10 



6. Funicle joints 1 and 2 sube(iual in length; fiagellar striations barely dis- 



cernible 7 



Funicle joint 2 considerably longer than 1 ; striations close and distinct. 



pla II ell II Ue Howa rd. 



7. Fore wings with disc closely and completely cUmte^portoriceiifiis, new^ species. 

 Fore VA'ings with a round bare space below stigma pergainJicUa. new species. 



