NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF APHELININ.E. 



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Male. — Differs from female only as pointed ont in generic diag- 

 nosis, except that the clouded portion of the fore wing is lighter than 

 in the female. 



Type. — No. 10311, U. S. National Museum. Described from many 

 male and female specimens reared by Mr. Geo. Compere, evidently 

 from scale insects, at Swan Eiver and Perth, West Australia. (Com- 

 pere's numbers 774, 855, 871, 873, 923, 925, 944, and 102f).) 



Also from a number of specimens reared by A. Koebele, September 

 29, 1899, from an Asphll- 

 ot(/s on Ilakea sp., at Syd- 

 ney. New South Wales, 

 (lioebele's No. 1998.) 



Genus ARTAS, new g-enus. 



Female. — Tarsi 4-joint- 

 ed; antenna? G-jointed; 

 scajDc and pedicel normal, 

 the single funicle joint 

 about as long as the first 

 club joint and slightly 

 more slender: club joints 

 subequal in length, the 

 terminal joint tapering to 

 a point. Fore wings very 

 ol)tusely rounded and al- 

 most bare, having very 

 fcAv discal cilia; four 

 long hairs arising from 



marginal vein, and a Fig. li.—BardyUs australlensis: Antenna of female, and an- 

 ^eries of Verv lono- maro-i- ^s^^^^- hind leg, and fore wing of male. Greatly enlarged 



f^ ' fe (original). 



nal hairs beginning at 



the tip of the marginal vein and extending around to the middle 

 of the lower margin, slightly longer at loAver tip; marginal vein 

 equal in length to submarginal; stigmal lacking as in Aspl(/lofipha- 

 (pis. Tarsal joints of middle tarsi subequal in length, tibial spur 

 longer than the first two tarsal joints together. 



Male. — TTnknown. 



Type. — The following species: 



Artas koebelei, new species. (Fig. 22.) 



Female. — Length 0.38 mm. ; expanse 1 mm. : greatest width of 

 fore wing 0.13 mm. General color dull yellow ; mesoscutellum light 



