NO. 2136. REVISION OF THE GENUS APHYCUS TTMBERLAKE. 613 



center and base, the margins posterior to the vibrissae broadly yellow 

 and anterior to the vibrissae more yellowish brown. Antennal scape 

 black, with base, apex and a narrow line on dorsal margin white; 

 base of pedicel, first four funicle joints, and club brown, the funicle 

 joints paler on the upper side, especially 'the third and fourth; rest of 

 antenna yellowish white. Legs pale yellowish white with the last 

 joint of the tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



Male. Not known. 



Redescribed from four females (two of them cotypes) from Gifu, 

 Japan (Y. Nawa). 



Ty2)e.C<dt. No. 7176, U.S.N.M. 



18. APHYCUS KINGI, new species. 

 Fig. 5. 



Female. Front and vertex nearly twice as long as wide; ocelli in 

 an equilateral triangle, the posterior pair about one-half their own 

 diameter from the eye margin; antennal scrobes broad and shallow, 

 the facial prominence but slightly elevated; eyes nearly bare. An- 

 tennal scape about one-half as wide as long, widest across the middle; 

 pedicel only a little longer than the first two funicle joints combined; 

 first four funicle joints subequal in length, the last two longer, the 

 first three hardly wider than long, the next three increasing in width 

 so that the sixth is about twice as wide as the first; club oval, sub- 

 truncate at apex, nearly a third wider again than the preceding joint 

 and as long as the last three funicle joints combined. Wings nearly 

 uniformly ciliated but a triangular area beneath the lower third of 

 the oblique hairless streak with the cilia less dense; oblique hairless 

 streak extends uninterrupted from the stigmal vein to the posterior 

 margin of wing. Length: 1.0 mm. 



Front, vertex, upper rim of occiput, and mesonotum orange yellow; 

 face, cheeks, sides of occiput, and entire underparts sordid yellowish 

 white, with the venter of abdomen more dusky; concealed part of 

 occiput and pronotum, the metanotum, propodeum and dorsum of 

 abdomen uniformly blackish brown; collar of pronotum and tegulse 

 yellowish white, the former with a small brownish dot on each corner, 

 and the posterior third of the latter pale brown. Antennal scape 

 black with the extreme base, apex, and a very narrow line on the 

 upper margin yellowish white; pedicel, except the dorsal, apical mar- 

 gin, the first two funicle joints, and a part of the third, and club 

 blackish brown; rest of antenna yellowish white. Legs uniformly 

 yellowish white with the last joint of the tarsi blackish. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



Male. Not known. 



