624 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 50. 



26. APHYCUS ANNULIPES (Ashmead). 



Coccophagus annulipes ASHMEAD, Can. Ent., vol. 14, 1882, p. 37. 

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

 1885, pp. 19, 41. 



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

 an acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair nearly their own diameter 

 from the eye margin; front, vertex and eyes nearly free from pubes- 

 cence. Antennal seape about one-half as wide as long; pedicel as long 

 as the first three funicle joints combined; funicle joints as far as can 

 be made out all short and transverse, the sixth about twice as wide as 

 the first and apparently hardly longer; club nearly as wide as long 

 (after collapsing), rounded at apex, about one-fourth wider than the 

 preceding joint and half as long as the funicle; antenna as a whole 

 unusually short. Wings of type broken off and lost. Length, 1.2 

 mm. (estimated). 



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

 occiput, and underparts yellowish white; concealed part of prono- 

 tum, metapostnotum, and dorsum of abdomen (latter according to 

 original description) brownish black; collar of pronotum and tegulae 

 whitish, the former with a brown dot on each corner, the latter not 

 marked. Antennal scape black with the dorsal margin and the base 

 and apex more broadly white; base of pedicel and club black; first 

 two funicle joints brownish, last four joints and apical half of pedicel 

 yellowish white. Legs yellowish white; tibiae with two narrow, pale 

 brown annuli, subinterrupted on the front pair, and broken into 

 two dots on the middle pair (hind tibiae broken off) ; middle femora 

 with faint brownish dots arranged nearly as on the middle tibiae; 

 last joint of the tarsi tipped with blackish. Wings originally de- 

 scribed as hyaline, the veins pale yellowish. 



Red escribed from one female (cotype) reared from a Lecanium on 

 Quercus aquatica, Jacksonville, Florida, April 17, 1881 (W. H. Ash- 

 mead). The second cotype female not found. 



Two other females, Jacksonville, Florida, are labeled as types of 

 annulipes under U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 4751, but must be later speci- 

 mens and belong to pulvinariae Howard. A third female from the 

 same locality, erroneously labeled cotype, is also pulvinariae. 



Type.C&i. No. 1477, U.S.N.M. 



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27. APHYCUS OAXACAE Howard. 

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



Female. Front and vertex as wide as long; ocelli in a right-angled 

 triangle, the posterior pair about one-third of their own diameter 

 from the eye margin; antennal scrobes deep and narrow, uniting 

 above and together, forming a notch in the anterior margin of the 

 front, the facial prominence well elevated ; pubescence slight on both 



