78 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Feb.,. 71 
Description of Male—Length 1.4 mm., width across abdomen .42 mm. 
Yellow brown in color with conspicuous dark chestnut markings. 
Head.—Length .34 mm., width .4 mm., thus being unusually long in 
comparison with its width. Front slightly convex with three short 
spines on either side and two short 
hairs on the angles where the front 
merges into the diverging sides The 
prominent ocular emargination is al- 
most filled by the eye and the last seg- 
ment of the antennae. Ocular 
blotches dark chestnut; ocular bands 
indistinct except where they broad- 
en to form light brown blotches at 
their anterior ends. The ocular 
fringe extends around the angle on 
to the temples. Temples broadly 
rounded, occiput concave. Two oc- 
cipital triangles of dark chestnut col- 
or connected by a dark band on the 
occipital margin and extending for- 
ward. Occipital bands wanting. 
There are four hairs on the angle 
before the ocular emargination, one 
larger than the others; five hairs on 
the temple, three long and two short- 
er; also two hairs on the occiput near 
the center. 
Thorax.—Length .34 mm., width 
Fig. ace lboceab alam stictum 1. SP. 34 mm. Prothorax lenticular, the 
anterior margin more flattened than 
the posterior, which latter bears a row of about twelve hairs. Meta- 
thorax trapezoidal; very dark chestnut blotches occurring in both an- 
terior and posterior angles, and the latter angles bearing two hairs 
and a spine; also about six hairs on the posterior margin which is 
straight. Legs pale with a fringe of hairs on the outer edge of the 
tibia. 
Abdomen.—Length .78 mm. Last segment rounded; lateral band 
of each segment, except the last, with two dark chestnut appendages 
curving inward, one at each end of the segment, becoming lighter in 
color in the posterior segments. Very long hairs in the posterior 
angles of some of the segments. A row of hairs across each segment 
and numerous short hairs around the posterior margin of the last seg- 
ment. Transverse blotches slightly darker than general ground color of 
insect. Genitalia inconspicuous, being only slightly chitinized. 
