NO. 2136. REVISION OF THE GENUS APHYCUSTIMBERLAKE. 611 



the latter with the posterior margin pale brown. Antennal scape 

 black with a very narrow line on upper margin, the apex and a broad 

 band on the basal third of the lower margin white; base of pedicel, 

 first four funicle joints and club black; apical two-thirds of pedicel, 

 last two funicle joints and sometimes the underside of the third and 

 fourth joints white. Legs pale yellowish; middle tibiae with a 

 pair of distinct, brown dots near base, another pan- at the middle, 

 and a narrow, brown annulus at the apex; hind tibiae similar, but 

 the markings fainter; front tibiae with the apical annulus faint and 

 the two pair of dots replaced by a large but faint brownish blotch 

 on the anterior or upper surface; last joint of the tarsi faintly black- 

 ish. Wings hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



Redescribed from three females (cotypes) in poor condition, 

 reared f rom Saissetia oleae (Bernard), Cape Town, South Africa (C. P. 

 Lounsbury). The fourth cotype has been lost by dropping from the 

 card point. 



The following material also examined: Seven females, one male 

 reared from the same host, Cape Colony, South Africa (C. P. Louns- 

 bury), and two females from the same host and locality (through 

 H. S. Smith), California State Insectary No. 655cp. 



The females differ from the types as follows: Front and vertex 

 varying from twice. to nearly two and one-half times as long as wide; 

 ocelli in an equilateral triangle or nearly so, but in three specimens in 

 a more or less acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair about one- 

 fourth their own diameter from eye margin. Ovipositor protruded 

 about one-tenth the length of abdomen. Length: 1.4 mm. 



Coloration nearly as hi types but the front, vertex, and mesonotum 

 uniformly dark orange yellow, but the dark parts nearly black instead 

 of brown; dorsum of abdomen with the lateral margins narrowly 

 whitish posterior to the vibrissae half way to the apex, and the 

 anterior corners of the basal tergites invaded by the whitish of the 

 venter; tibial bands and dots heavier and blackish and with an ad- 

 ditional dot at the knee joint. 



Male. Front and vertex a little less than twice as long as wide; 

 ocelli in an equilateral triangle. Antennal scape narrower than in 

 the female and the club smaller or no longer than the last three 

 funicle joints combined. Wings as in the female, but the cut-off 

 portion of the oblique hairless streak larger and connecting with a 

 branch of the basal hairless streak on the posterior border of wing. 

 Length: 1.3 mm. 



Coloration as in the female, except that the front and vertex are 

 bright sulphur yellow, with the face and cheeks but slightly paler; 

 marginal pale streak on abdomen wider and more yellowish with a 

 narrow, more brownish extension reaching the apex. Antenna as in 



