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tergites of abdomen with a ver\- fine, delicate reticulated surface sculp- 

 ture. 



Eyes with a short, rather sparse pile ; the pubescence on head and 

 thorax short, yellowish, rather sparse and not conspicuous. 



Length : 1.07 to 1.23 mm. 



Coloration of body uniformly yellow, nearly ochraceous orange (Ridg- 

 way), the underparts of thorax and the legs paler yellow, the apex of 

 the last joint of the tarsi blackish ; antennal scape and pedicel fuscous, 

 becoming testaceous at apex of the latter, flagellum darker or inclining 

 to blackish ; wings hyaline with the veins fuscous. 



Described from a female (tvpe) reared Sept. 2, 1916, from 

 Pseudococcus saccharifolii (Green) from Pahala, Hawaii 

 (Swezey), and another (paratype) fonnd in a vial with a 

 specimen of Pseiuiococcohius terryi (Fnlla^yay) without data. 

 This specimen may be the type of Fullaway's description of 

 the supposed male of terryi. 



Pauridia n. g. 



Female : Head in frontal view nearly circular in outline, in side view 

 subtriangular, with occipital side much the longest, the dorsal side the 

 shortest and rounded ; the facial and occipital sides forming an acute 

 angle at the mouth ; head in other words strongly convex dorsally with 

 the face abruptly reflexed ; f rontovertex about a half longer again than 

 wide ; ocelli in an obtuse-angled triangle, the posterior pair close to the 

 eye-margins ; eyes moderate in size, about a fourth longer than wide, and 

 widest anteriorly, their long axis oblique to the plane of the frontover- 

 tex ; occiput very slightly tonvex with the neck inserted near the center ; 

 face and cheeks long, the latter as long as the dorsal orbits of eyes; the 

 face deeply hollowed out above to form the scrobes which nearly meet in 

 an acute angle just below the facial angulation and separated below by 

 a low, triangular prominence between the antennae. The latter inserted 

 moderately far apart close to the clypeal margin ; scape cylindrical and 

 just reaching to the frons ; pedicel twice as long as thick or nearly as 

 long as the first four funicle joints combined ; flagellum moderately cla- 

 vate, and finely pubescent; first four funicle joints very small, short 

 and transverse, and also much narrower than the apex of pedicel, the 

 fifth a little larger and somewhat transverse, the sixth considerably 

 longer and subquadrate ; club large, oval, acute at apex, wider than 

 funicle and as long as the five preceding joints combined, its three 

 joints about equally long. Mandibles thick at base, rather short, narrow 

 at apex with two short, equal, not very acute teeth. Maxillary palpi 

 short, two-jointed, the basal joint no longer than thick, the apical nearly 

 twice as long. 



Thorax moderatelv convex, the scutum, axillae and scutellum in one 



