KO. 2242. 



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3. NEOSTYLOPS SOLIDULAE Pierce. 



Table of measurements of female. 



The male pupa has scutum united in front of scutellum. 



4. NEOSTYLOPS SHANNONI. new species. 



Plate 70, figs. 1, 2. 



Described from one male collected on Plummers Island, Maryland, 

 April 7, 1915, by R. C. Shannon. 



Male. — Velvety black, pro- and mesothorax shining, eyes, anten- 

 nae, femora, eh'tra, and wing veins piceous; tibiae, tarsi and last 

 ventral segment lighter, straw colored. 



Antennae with second joint minute; third short with flabellum 

 surpassed by sixth; fourth longer; fifth shorter than sixth. Man- 

 dibles very slender, not reaching beyond basal third of second 

 maxillary joint. Maxillae very large, lamellate, second joint longer 

 than first and about equal to fourth antennal joint. Front flattened 

 into an overhanging triangular ledge over the mouth parts. 



The mesothoracic spiracle is located at the base of elytron. The 

 prothorax and mesothorax are very small and each is divided by a 

 transverse fold. The metathorax is very large; the praescutum 

 keystone shape; the scutum broadly connected behind praescutum, 

 but with a deep depression in front of the scutellum; scutellum 

 broadly rounded in front; postlumbium very large, depressed and 

 heavily chitinized, of the same color as the remainder of the thorax ; 

 postscutellum longitudinally depressed. 



The elytron has a small anal lobe. 



Type.— Cat. No. 21448, U.S.N.M. 



12. Genus PARASTYLOPS Meijere (1908). 



Parastylops Meijeke. 1011. 

 1. P. fagellatus Meijere, host unknown ; Java. 



• yil. Family HYLECTHRIDAE Pierce. 



In all my publications the spelling of this family name and of the 

 genus Uylecthrus. except when used in quoting bibliographic refer- 



