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are enclosed in a woolly covering of wax. Some Chalcid parasites 

 emerged from the material (Psylledontus secundus Girault n. 

 sp.)." 



This species bears a close resemblance to the Bengalese species 

 referred to above, Pauropsylla tuberculata Crawford/ which 

 was taken on leaves of Alstonia scholaris, but the Ceylonese 

 species differs markedly in being much smaller, in having ovate 

 wings with a whitish tinge and brown spots and venational 

 difference as noted above, and a longer female genital segment. 



A single mutilated female specimen from Butuan, Mindanao, 

 P. I. (Baker), resembles very closely both of these species and 

 more closely the Ceylonese species, although its size is somewhat 

 larger. A description of this, however, is deferred until more 

 material becomes available. 



Pauropsylla spondiasae sp. nov. Plate I, fig. g. 



Length of body, 1.5 millimeters ; length of forewing, 2.1 ; width, 

 1.3; width of head, 0.7. Head and thorax dark brown; legs, 

 abdomen, and antennse except apical segments greenish yellow 

 or light brown ; wings yellowish. 



Head very short, not quite as broad as thorax, rounded down 

 in front uniformly, with posterior ocelli a little elevated, finely 

 pubescent; frons not wholly covered by gense, but largely so; 

 antennae not longer than width of head, slender, with terminal 

 setae longer than 2 terminal segments. 



Thorax very thick and strongly arched, surface reticulated; 

 legs short; wings large and broad, scarcely twice as long as 

 broad, broadest near apex, hyaline but with yellowish tinge, with 

 a pterostigma; marginal cells rather large. 



Abdomen short, thick. Male: Forceps rather long, curved 

 forward, tapering to a point, pubescent. Anal valve shorter than 

 forceps, erect, narrow. Female genital segment not as long as 

 rest of abdomen, dorsal valve blunt, short; ventral valve longer, 

 acutely pointed and curved upward. 



Described from two males and two females from Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon (Rutherford), taken from galls on leaves of Spondias 

 mangiferas. "Leaves inrolled on the margins." 



Paurocephala psylloptera Crawford.^ 



One female from Los Baiios, P. L (Baker) , and 23 males and 

 females collected in Peradeniya, Ceylon, May 24, 1914, on young 

 shoots of Ficus hispida and Ficus asperrima (Rutherford) . An 



'Ibid. (1912), 7, pt. 2, 430. 



' This Journal, Sec. D (1913), 8, 294. 



