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Merrill, Nos. 2006 and 2007; and one male (metatype and erroneously 

 labeled with type No. 2609, U.S.N.M.), collected in northern Vir- 

 ginia, June, 1879 (Th. Pergande). The latter Specimen is in poor 

 condition, but agrees as far as preserved with the males from Florida. 

 The type female and male could not be found, but the insect de- 

 scribed above agrees fairly well with Howard's description, and ap- 

 parently the only reason to doubt the identification lies in the fact 

 that the types were reared from a Lecanium instead of a Ceroplastes. 



Type-locality. Fort George, Florida. 



Type. Cat. No. 2609, U.S.N.M. 



31. APHYCUS STOMACHOSUS Girault. 

 Figs. 29, 46. 



Aphycus stomachosus GIRAULT, Psyche, vol. 16, 1909, p. 77. 



Aphycus flaviceps KING (not Howard), Can. Ent., vol. 31, 1899, p. 141. 



Female. Front and vertex about one-half longer again than wide; 

 ocelli in a slightly acute-angled triangle, the posterior pair about 

 their own diameter from the eye margin; antennal scrobes broad and 

 shallow, facial prominence not much elevated; eyes with a sparse, 

 extremely short, fine pubescence. Antennal scape flattened and a 

 little wider at the middle, about three times longer than greatest 

 width; pedicel as long as the first three funicle joints combined; 

 first three funicle joints subequal in length and width and about as 

 long as wide, the last three increasingly wider and more transverse, 

 and the last two also slightly longer than the preceding, the sixth not 

 quite twice as wide as the first; club oval, obtusely rounded at apex, 

 about one-third wider again than the preceding joint, and nearly as 

 long as the last five funicle joints combined. Wings uniformly 

 ciliated; oblique hairless streak narrowed above and interrupted 

 below, the cut-off portion separated from the posterior margin of 

 disk and from the basal hairless streak. Ovipositor slightly pro- 

 truded. Length: 0.7 to 1.2 mm. 



General color deep bright orange yellow, most vivid on the front, 

 vertex, and mesonotum; face, cheeks, and underparts a little paler; 

 collar of pronotum concolorous with a black dot on each corner; 

 occiput entirely orange yellow, but the pronotum has a narrow black- 

 ish transverse band on the concealed portion; tegulae yellowish 

 white, with their posterior margin blackish brown; prepectal plates 

 paler than rest of pleura or yellowish white; metanotum, propodeum, 

 and most of the dorsum of abdomen more or less brownish. An- 

 tennae concolorous with the face; scape with a small spot of brownish 

 at the middle, on dorsal margin; first four funicle joints brownish 

 and base of club blackish brown. Legs a little paler yellow than 

 underparts, the tip of the last joint of the tarsi blackish. Wings 

 hyaline, the veins pale brownish. ' 



