NEW ENCYRTINE INSECTS— HOWARD. 24ri 



APHYCUS CALIFORNICUS, new species. 



Female. — Lengtb, 0.7 mm.; expanse, l.G mm. Mesopleura smooth; 

 vertex narrow; lateral ocelli almost toucbiug eye border and forming 

 slightly acute-angled triangle; wings hyaline, veins brown. General 

 color orange; abdomen dusky above; pronotum and occiput black; 

 under side of body pallid, except that abdomen is dusky toward tip; 

 aiitennal scape black, yellowish at tip; pedicel oblique at base, white 

 at tip; lirst four funicle joints black, joints Sand G yellow; club black; 

 all legs pallid, except that middle and hind tibiae have two brown 

 bands. 



Two females, reared by Mr. A. Koebele from Lecanium on Adenostoma 

 faHciculatnm collected near Alameda, California, June, 1887. 



Type.— Bo. 5043, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS ANGELICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.72 mm.; expanse, 1.0 mm. Scape somewhat 

 swollen but without a leaf-like expansion. (All of the preceding 

 species have possessed a strong ventral leaf-like expansion to the scape.) 

 Vertex narrow; ocelli forming an acute-angled triangle; lateral ocelli 

 near eye margin; wings somewhat dusky with a hyaline cross band 

 beyond stigma. General color orange, somewhat dusky on mesouotum; 

 scape, i)edicel, and first four fiinicle joints black, remaining funicle 

 joints and club silvery white; legs and underside of body pallid, legs 

 not spotted; ovipositor slightly extruded. 



Three females, from Dactylopius on passion tlower, Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, summer of 188G, Mr. Albert Koebele. 



Ty2)e.—l^o. 5044, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS AUSTRALIAENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.4 mm. ; expanse, 3.9 mm. Scape slender, not at 

 all widened, very slightly swollen toward tip; vertex broad; ocelli 

 forming an obtuse-angled triangle; wings hyaline, veins light brown. 

 General color uniform dark yellow, somewhat brighter on face; anten- 

 nae yellowish, club light, duskj^ toward tip; legs entirely unspotted; 

 mesopleura finely shagreened and with a few striae on apical portion. 



Two females, reared from a Dactylopius on Eucalyptus^ Melbourne, 

 Victoria, Australia, A. Koebele. 



Type.— Bo. 5045, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS TEXANUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.88 mm. ; expanse, l.G mm. Closely resembles pre- 

 ceding species, except that it is very much smaller; the antennae are 

 not brownish toward tips, the ocelli form a right-angled triangle, the 

 lateral ones almost touching eye border, while the pleura are faintly 

 aciculate, not striate. 



