62 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. V". 



Marginal vein not more than twice the length of the stigmal vein ; 

 antennae io-jointed. ..••.*•• 



ECRIZOTES, Forster. 



Eurycephalus alcocki, new species. 



$ .— Length 1.3 mm. Head and thorax above aeneous black, the 

 face below eyes, the thorax at sides and beneath blue-black ; eyes 

 greyish ; antennae and legs, except coxae, brownish-yellow, the pedicel 

 and club of antennae faintly dusky, the tarsi except terminal joints 

 which are fuscous, pale yellowish. Wings hyaline, the veins brown. 

 Abdomen rufous, seen from above cordate, flat, beneath carinate. 



$ — Length 0*9 mm. Head and thorax above aeneous black, the 

 face, cheeks, scape above, thorax at sides and beneath, the coxae and 

 the abdomen blue ; scape beneath and the filiform flagellum light 

 brown. Femora fuscous with a violaceous tinge, rest of the legs light 

 brown. Wings hyaline, strongly iridescent, the venation blackish. 



Habitat. — Calcutta, India. 



Types.-Czt. No. 5441, U. S. N. M. 



Described from 3 ? and 2 $ specimens, received by Dr. L. O. 

 Howard from Major A. Alcock, I. M.S., Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, and reared from Ceroplastes actiniformis y Green, 

 [Family Coccidas^ Order Hemipterd\. 



