REVISION OF STREPSIPTERA — PIERCE. 159 



?2. PENTOXOCERA PH^ODES Perkins (1905.) 



Halictophagus (Bruesia) phaeodcs Perkins, 1905, 1906. 

 Pentoxoccra phaeodcs Pierce, 1908. 



Host. — Hecalus immaculatus Kirkaldy, Cairns; Queensland. 

 This species has been described by Perkins as follows : 



Female. — Length about \ mm. Head broader than long, brown, more yellowish 

 in front and darker behind the opening of the brood chamber, strongly rounded at 

 the sides, the anterior median area defined and slightly produced, tuberculate on 

 either side of this area in front; the surface slightly convex between the opening of 

 the brood chamber and the apex. (Perkins, 1905.) 



?3- PENTOXOCERA STENODES Perkins (1905). 



Halictophagus (Bruesia) stenodes Perkins, 1905, 1906. 

 Pentoxocera stenodes Pierce, 1908. 



Host. — Paradorydium menalus Kirkaldy, Cairns; Queensland. 

 According to Perkins tins species may be described as follows : 



Female. — Length about £ mm. Head narrow, subelongate, sides not strongly 

 rounded, more parallel-sided, piceous, shining opening of the brood-chamber near 

 the middle of the head, the surface slightly convex. Otherwise agreeing generally 

 with the preceding, P. phxodes (Perkins, 1905). 



? 4 . PENTOXOCERA SCHWARZI, new species. 



Host. — Diedrocephala sanguinolenta Coquibar; Cacao, Finca Trece 

 Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, March, 1906; E. A. Schwarz and 

 H. S. Barber (pi. 14, fig. 11). 



Male: — Cephalotheca : Transverse diameter 0.65 mm., longitudinal 

 diameter 0.49 mm.; yellowish brown, broad elliptic; pharyngeal 

 orifice central, opening behind an inferior concave ridge, and bounded 

 superiad by a more concave vertigial ridge; antennal analogues 

 lateral, distant, prominent; vertex straight from eye to eye except 

 in front of pharynx as described above ; mandibular analogues imme- 

 diately below vertex, prominent, chitinized brown, very close to 

 lateral edges of pharyngeal orifice; maxillary analogues elliptic, 

 oblique, reaching mandibles above, with a small prominent circular 

 area at lower end. 



Type.— Cat. No. 12316, U.S.N.M. 



Named in honor of Mr. E. A. Schwarz, and placed provisionally 

 in this genus. 



27. Genus AGALLIAPHAGUS Pierce (1908). 



Halictophagus (?) Perkins, 1905. 



Type of genus. — Agalliapliagus americanus Perkins, 1905. 

 The genus is parasitic on the bythoscopid genus Agallia and is at 

 present limited to North America. 



