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APHYCUS MEXICANUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.5 mm. ; expanse, 3.2 mm. Scape long, cylindriciil, 

 reacliing as high as top of head; vertex very narrow; ocelli form an 

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

 orange; scape black beh)w, yellowish above; pedicel black at base, 

 yellowish at tip; lirst four funicle Joints brown, fifth and sixth yellow; 

 club black; abdomen black above; pleura light yellow, finely sha- 

 greened, with few longitudinal impressed lines; occiput black; prono- 

 tum black below, pallid behind, with two black shallow spots; tegulae 

 pallid, with a brown spot at tip; metascutellum black; metascutiim 

 orange with black spot either side; metai)raescutum with a brown spot 

 either side and another brown sjtot either side of the scapulae; legs 

 pallid, not spotted. 



Many specimens reared from a Ceroplastes in the City of Mexico, by 

 Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. Two specimens reared from Ceroplosfes 

 cirri jjedif'ormis in liaton Kouge, Louisiaiui, in December, by Mr. H. A. 

 Morgan. 



Type.—'^o. 5050, U.S.N.M. 



APHYCUS ALBERTI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.81 mm.; expanse,. 2.1 mm. liesembles preceding- 

 species, except that first three funicle Joints are reduced in size, whereas 

 in mexicanns tliey are subequal with the last three, in lacking the brown 

 dots either side of scutellum, in having abdomen concolorous with the 

 thorax. It is also a considerably smaller species. 



Male. — Uniform black above; lower face reddish yellow; antennae 

 brown; tegulae yellowish; jdeura and under side of body honey-yellow; 

 all legs honey-yellow. 



One male, one female, reared from Leeanium hesperidum, at Sidney, 

 New South Wales, Mr. A. Koebele. 



Type.—^o. 5051, U.S.N.M. 



Genus CHR YSOPOPH AGUS. 

 ChryaopophaguH Asiimkao, Insect Life, VII, pp. 2ir>, 246. 



CHRYSOPOPHAGUS BANKS!, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.1 mm.; expanse, 3.8 mm. liesembles C. compres- 

 sicornls Ashmead, except in the following particulars: Scutellum is 

 brownish yellow, not orange; abdomen is brownish yellow, excei)t at 

 base, where it is dark and metallic; all legs are uniform dark honey- 

 yellow; fore wings are almost uniformly dusky, exce])t at base; the 

 flagellum of antenna is black; pronotum is dark honey-yellow; head is 

 smooth or very faintly shagreened. 



Described from three female specimens, two collected by Mr. Nathan 

 Banks at College Station, Texas, August 31, 1890, and one collected by 



