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parently shrunken), ovate; segments subequal in length? Legs normal. 

 Wings extending beyond abdomen ?, generally strongly bent at apices 

 of second basal and anal cells ; without spines or bristles. Length 

 6.0-6.5 mm. 



Male.' — Abdomen with five segments ; hypopygium more or less 

 extended. Female. — Abdomen with six segments. 



Type Locality. — Bartica, British Guiana. 



Holotype. — $ , May 21, 190 1. In the collection at the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. No. 5254. 



Allotype. — $,topotypic. 



Paratypes. — i S , i 9 , topotypic. 



This species differs from all the others in that the front is 

 not produced conically, is larger, and the maculation of the 

 wing is limited to a few whitish areas on the disc, the re- 

 mainder being brownish, becoming lighter towards the pos- 

 terior margin. In general, the species is a true Traginops, 

 but the arista is curiously doubly plumose. This is the fourth 

 species described in this genus. 



Explanation of Plate XIX. 



Fig. I. Telostylus vittatus. 



Fig. 2. Telostylus vittatus, mesal surface of an antenna. 



Fig. 3. Traginops pilicornis, head. 



Fig. 4. Traginops pilicornis, wing. 



Fig. 5. Syringogaster rufa. 



Fig. 6. Syringogaster rufa, wing. 



Erium lichtensioides Ckll. vs. Eriococcus artemisiae* 



Kuw. (Hemip.). 



By E. R. Sasscer, Bureau of Entomology, Washington. D. C. 



In the fall of 191 1 the writer received from Mr. P. H. 

 Timberlake a coccid, on .Artemiski californica collected at 

 Santa Barbara, California, and owing to its great similarity 

 to Eriococcus artemisiae Kuwanaf it was provisionally identi- 

 fied as such. A subsequent examination of this scale revealed 

 the fact that it also agreed in practically every particular with 

 Erium lichtensioides Cockerell,$ which was described from 

 Fort Collins, Colorado, on Artemisia frigida. The fact that 



* Published by permission of Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief, Bureau of 

 Entomology, 

 t Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci., (3), U, p. 399 (1901). 

 j Science-Gossip, n. s., lU, p. 199 (1897). 



