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showed the clear, subhyaline band at the middle very indistinctly, not clear cut as in the 
type specimens excepting with several of them. Casually, in most of these specimens, the fore 
wings appeared to be fumated throughout, the cloudiness gradually fading out distad. I have 
since captured a female specimen of this species on a window of a barn at Roma, Queensland, 
October 6, 1911. 
Habitat—Australia—New South Wales (Gosford); Queensland (Roma). 
Host.—Acanthocoecid on Hucalyptus. 
Types.—The three females as indicated in foregoing.’’ 
A female was taken from a window, November 2, 1912 at Proserpine, Queensland. The: 
propodeum is delicately polygonally reticulated. 
A. SIGNIPHORA AUSTRALIENSIS ORBICULATA new variety. Male. 
Differs from the typical form in that the distal fumation of fore wing consists of @ 
large cireular spot centrally, the surrounding portions hyaline. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2965, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
2. SIGNIPHORA ASPIDIOTI Ashmead. 
The recent treatment of this species is also quoted from Girault (1913). 
‘« Signiphora aspidioti Ashmead, 1900, pp. 409, 412. 
On the same page that coquilletti was described, Ashmead described a new species under 
the name of aspidioti in the manner quoted below. This species is identical with coquwilletti 
structurally, but differs in that the distal half of the antennal club is dusky, a phenomenon not 
observed in the series of specimens of coquilletti examined by me but which would be expected 
to occur in a number of specimens if it was merely an incidental variation. I cannot do. 
otherwise than consider aspidioti valid. Its original description was in this manner: 
Female.—Length, about 0.50 mm. Lemon or golden-yellow, head faintly dusky above;. 
apical half of antennal club, anterior half of mesonotum, and a broad transverse band at 
base of abdomen, including nearly half its length, dark brown; wings with a broad fuscous: 
band, as in previous species. 
Type.—Cat. No. 4859, U.S.N.M. 
Habitat.—Mexico: San Louis. 
Host.—Rhynech: Aspidiotus nerii Bouché (= hedere Vall.). Bred November, 1894 by 
Tyler Townsend. 
Besides the type specimen, I found another female specimen of it in the collections of 
the United States National Museum labeled ‘ 47022. Bred from Aspidiotus nerti (= hedere 
Vall.), San Luis, Mex., November, ’94.’ This specimen is evidently an original one. I have 
labeled it as a homotype. The antennal club in aspidioti is more clavate and longer than that 
of coquilletti apparently. The single type female is labeled as the specimen just noted,. 
and, additionally, ‘ 4859,’ the type number. ’’ 
Two females were taken from windows, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, August 3 and 
October 9, 1912. This is the first Australian record. Later, a female was captured from a 
window of an empty dwelling at Ingham, Queensland, in February, 1913. 
8. SIGNIPHORA RETICULATA Girault. Female. 
The original description of this species is quoted. 
‘* Length 0.80 mm. Moderate in size for the genus. 
Black, the head and thorax dark metallic green, the wings perfectly hyaline, with no. 
proximal fumation. Venation, legs and antenne brownish black. Proximal three tarsal joints. 
and much of the cephalic tibia, yellow. Mesonotum and vertex, finely, transversely lined. 
Abdomen, the rectangular (wider than long) scutellum, the transverse mesopostscutellum and 
