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In Giraiilt's tables it runs to Coccidoxenus Crawford and Fid- 

 f/oridicida Perkins, with neither of which is it closely allied, 

 both of these genera falling more naturally in the Mirini. 



Pauridia peregrina n. sp. 



Female: Fifth funicle joint varying to hardly larger if any at all 

 than the preceding joints although typically distinctly larger. Eyes with 

 a fine, short, moderately thick pile ; the frontovertex with a few longer 

 scattered hairs, the mesonotum with more numerous similar hairs, the 

 vestiture not conspicuous being dark-colored and nowhere abundant. 



Length : .56 to .89 mm. 



Black throughout, somewhat shining except on head, but hardly 

 metallic; legs concolorous, all the tarsi except at apex, the trochanters, 

 knee articulations, and apex of the middle tibiae yellow, the middle tarsi 

 and tibial spur paler yellow ; antennae dull black ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins fuscous. 



Male : The only male seen is mounted on a slide and seems to be 

 identical with the female throughout in coloration and structure except 

 as brought out in the generic description. 



Length : .79 mm. 



Described from 74 females (type and paratypes) all reared 

 from Pseudococcus l-rauhniae (Kuwana) or associated with 

 this mealybug, Honolulu, Oahu (Timberlake) ; 1 female (para- 

 type), Waiamao Valley (part of Palolo), Oahu, Apr. 9, 1916 

 (Timberlake) ; 1 male, 4 females (allotype and paratypes) 

 reared from mealybugs on pigeon peas, Honolulu, June 20, 

 1911 (Ehrhorn) ; 3 females (paratypes) reared from mealy- 

 bug on Casda fistula, Honolulu, Dec. 4, 1913 (Ehrhorn) ; 

 and 1 female, Olowalu, Maui, May 15, 1918 (Giffard and 

 Fullaway). Also from the following foreign material: 5 fe- 

 males (paratypes) reared from mealybug, Amoy, China (C. P. 

 Clausen), California State Insectary ISTo. 3306; 1 female (par- 

 atype), Fiji, 1905 or 1906 (F. Muir) ; and 7 females (para- 

 types) reared from mealybug, Alhambra, California, iSIov. 1, 

 1918 (H. S. Smith), California State Insectary ]S\->. 3451. 



This species is common in Honolulu, and in the several 

 thousand specimens that I have reared no males have been de- 

 tected. 



