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remainder of fiinicle and club silvery ^\'hite. General color dark dull 

 orauge, brighter ou bead; iiotum with biud border of iirouotum dark, 

 sutures blackish and a black spot at center of mesoscutellum ; meso- 

 pleura orange; abdomen with a central orauge spot below. 



Oue female reared from Bactylopiuii vastator Maskell, collected at 

 Hong Koug, China, and reared by Mr. Maskell at Wellington, New 

 Zealand, April 14, 1890. 



Tijpe.—Eo. 503G, U.S.:N^.M. 



APHYCUS TOWNSENDI, new species. 



Female, — Length, 1.37 mm. ; expanse, 2.9 mm. Wings hyaline; vertex 

 moderately broad; ocelli forming a slightly obtuse-angled triangle, the 

 lateral ocelli placed well in advance of the occipital margin and well 

 separated from the eye border. Wing veins dark brown; general color 

 dark oiange; head somewhat lighter; mesoscutum a dark shade at 

 middle, mesoscutellum with a central dark shade, mesopleura orauge; 

 underside of abdomen mahogany, upperside of abdomen black; legs, 

 including coxae, pallid; hinder part of head black; scape black with 

 white spot at tip; fuuicle Avhite; club black. 



Three females, reared from a rUenacocciis on cotton by Mr. 0. H. T. 

 Townsend, Mesilla Park, i^ew Mexico. (?) 



Type.— No. 5037, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS COCKERELLI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.28 mm. ; exjianse, 2.8 mm. Vertex narrow; ocelli 

 at angles of an acute-angled triangle; wings hyaline; veins light brown; 

 general color light lemon yellow, scape with its expansion black, yellow- 

 ish above; pedicel with a black dot at base; fuuicle joints 1 and 2 black, 

 remainder of funicle lemon yellow, club black; ijrouotum, tegulae, 

 mesopleura, and all legs, pallid, except that all tibiae bear two miuute 

 brown dots exteriorly near base; abdomen sometimes slightly dusky 

 above. 



Six females, reared from a Lecanium on osage orauge, collected by 

 Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, at Las Cruces, New Mexico. 



Type.— No. 5038, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS NIGRITUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.93 mm. ; expanse, 2.3 mm. Vertex rather narrow ; 

 ocelli at angles of somewhat acute angled triangle, lateral ocelli touch- 

 ing occipital margin. General color black; vertex and face orange; 

 border of scutellum yellowish ; mesopleura orange ; all legs dusky, hind 

 legs lighter on iuner surface; wing veius dark brown, uearly black; 

 autennal scape black, white at apical third; pedicel and first funicle 

 joint black; (remainder of antennae broken off). 



One female, reared from Bactylopius on Artemisia, Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, Mr. D. W. Coquillett. 



Ty2)e.—No. 5039, U.S.N.M. 



