NO. 2136. REVISION OF THE GENUS APIIYCUSTIMBERLAKE. 621 



Front orange yellow shading into brownish black on vertex; occi- 

 put, most of cheeks, and entire upper parts of thorax and abdomen, 

 including the pronotal collar, brownish black; face and underparts 

 sordid yellowish; tegulae yellowish at base and blackish brown on 

 the posterior half. Antennal scape pale yellowish, with the dorsal 

 and ventral margins except at base pale brown; pedicel brown, with 

 the apex yellowish; funicle and club uniformly brown. Legs and 

 wings as in the female. 



Described from two females, one male (type, allotype, and para- 

 type), Auckland, New Zealand. This species is most closely related 

 to alberti Howard. 



Type.C&t. No. 18375, U.S.N.M. 



24. APHYCUS MACU1IPES Howard. 

 Fig. 16. 



Aphycus maculipcs HOWARD, Bull. No. 5, old ser., U. S. Dept. Agric., Bur. Ent., 



1885, p. 18. 

 Aphycus flaviceps HOWARD, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, 1898, pp. 241, 246. 



Female. Front and vertex about two and one-half times longer 

 than wide; ocelli in an acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair about 

 one-half to nearly their own diameter from the eye margin; antennal 

 scrobes rather deep and the facial prominence well developed; front 

 and vertex with rather abundant long pile, the eyes sparsely to 

 thickly pubescent, the pile very short and fine. Antennal scape 

 nearly one-half as wide as long, widest across the middle; pedicel as 

 long as the first three funicle joints combined; first four funicle joints 

 of nearly equal length, the fifth one-third longer and the sixth a 

 little shorter than the fifth, the first three about as long as wide, the 

 fourth and sixth wider than long, the fifth longer than wide, the last 

 not quite twice as wide as the first; club oval, rounded at apex, 

 somewhat wider than the last funicle joint and a little longer than 

 the last three combined. Wings uniformly ciliated; oblique hairless 

 streak narrowed above and interrupted below, the cut-off portion 

 small, round, and connecting with a branch of the basal hairless 

 streak which extends forward on the posterior margin of wing to the 

 angulation opposite the stigmal vein. Length, 0.9 to 1.4 mm. 



Front, vertex and mesonotum bright orange yellow; face, cheeks 

 and occiput sulphur yellow, the center of occiput dusky; underparts 

 entirely pale straw yellow; collar of pronotum and tegulae sordid 

 white, the former with a black dot on each corner and the latter with 

 a brown spot on the posterior margin ; concealed part of the pronotum, 

 most of the metapostnotum, the propodeum and dorsum of abdomen 

 blackish brown, the lateral margin of the latter paler and changing to 

 a straw yellow streak behind the vibrissae; almost the entire metascu- 

 tum and the anterior margin of the metapostnotum sulphur yellow; 



