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AphcUnus qnaylci sp. nov 



9. Length, OlSi mm.; cxpantc, i^i mm.; greatest width of fore- 

 wing, OiJt mm. 



Amcmwil tcape long ami sloidcr, resdUng lo top of bcml. tomewhat 

 oompretied hteraUy; pedied oae-third m long as icape and of tame 

 width as latter when the same is scqi in broadest ootliDe (t. #., side 

 view), increasing gradually in diameter from prtwimal lo distal cwl: 

 funicle joinu taken together are jost a shade oaore thaa half as long 

 a* ti ' and of the same diameter as the latter at its widest pofat. 



first : '•tnt slightly longer thu the aceood and the dtritioQ be- 



tween these two joints obUqac. as is also that b et w een the second 

 funicle joint and the penultimate dab joint; the imar side of each 

 fnnide joint la looger than the ooler side while the oppoai te is true 

 of the pcmUtimate dab joint, thos making each of these three joints 

 somewhat trapeioidal in outline: penahimale dab joiat about three- 

 fourths as long as the pedicel and a trifle greater in diameter; hat 

 antennal joim more or less compressed laterally, at least three 

 as long as preceding joint (sometiaws three aad ooe half 

 kmg) and about one-third wider thaa the saaw (dab seea la broad 

 outline), of nearly equal croaa sectfcm throughout its kagth, oaly 

 tapering abruptly to a bluat point from a pboe very near the dialal 

 end. Club with a few longittaliaal keda, the two jolata bdag dis- 

 tinctly separated by a welV-defioed coaatrictioa. Aateaaae a sod eratel y 

 hairy throughouL 



Eyes faimly hairy. Head and rest of body BMMt doee|y rcacaAlhig 

 that of A. capitis a. spc described above, except that the ahdomm ia 

 naked, or at most, bears a very few very i nconsp i cu oas hairs oo the 

 edges of one or two segments. 



Wings densely ciliated, all cilia being unusually long. On tuc tmc* 

 wing the discal cilia proxinad to the hairless streak are fully twice as 

 long as the others aad are arranged b four, or at awst five rows. 



Color: Head brownish yellow to orange ydlow, sooMtiaMS with a 

 pinldsh cast; eyes, dark garnet red; oceOi, dark red; antennae, ooo- 

 colorous with rest of body which is of a lemon yellow throughout, 

 sometimes deepening to canary yellow on the dorsum; wiags hyaline 

 except for a small, faint fuscous patch on the forewiags ia the dear 

 space between the insertion of the wing aad the fbsl diacal cilia. 

 Wing veins from nearly hyaline to lemoa-«olored. 

 i . Unknown. 



Described from many fctnale s peciuiq ig reared by the writer 

 at Lima, Peru, and throiif;hout the Department of INura, Peni, 

 from Pseudaonidia ariicuiaius, Hemichionaspis minor and 

 Ast>idiotus cainrlliar on various hosts. Also reared by P. H. 



