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A. A. Girault: 



Habit at: Australia — Magnetic Island (eight miles off 

 To wns ville) , Queensland . 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a slide. 



Genus Aspidiotiphagus Howard. 



1. Aspidiotiphagus australiensis new species. 

 Fe male: Length, 0.60 mm. Very small. 



Dusky black, a crescentic band around base of scutum, tip of 

 abdomen, the scutellum and the head lemon yellow; legs pallid, 

 the antennae dusky yellow; face (and occiput same place) below 

 antennal insertion, dusky black. Wings infuscated as in citrinus. 

 Antennae as in citrinus (9-jointed, with a ring-joint). 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping top of moun- 

 tain (1500 feet), May 29, 1913. 



Habitat : Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a slide. 



2. Aspidiotiphagus citrinus Craw. 



The original and subsequent descriptions of the genus omit 

 the very short ring-joint; the antennae are thus 9-jointed. The 

 length of the proximal joint of the club seems to vary considerably 

 and also the width of the fore wings which were narrower than 

 usual in the following Australian specimens: A female captured 

 from the foliage of an imported citron growing near the jungle, 

 October 29, 1911, at Babinda, North Queensland; a number of 

 specimens from a Diaspis on orange, Nelson, N. Q., July 4, 1912; 

 and at the same place August 17, 1912 a number of specimens from 

 Chionospis on orange foliage. In old specimens, the abdomen is 

 black. 



Genus Paraphelinus Perkins. 

 1. Paraphelinus australiensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 0.80 mm. 



Deep orange yellow, immaculate, the legs and antennae 

 pallid; wings hyaline; allied with xiphidii Perkins from Hawaii 

 but immaculate, the second funicle joint distinctly more than half 

 the length of the proximal club joint. There is a narrow median 

 grooved line down the thorax. Mandibles tridentate. Discal 

 ciliation very fine, short, the six lines proximad of the oblique 

 hairless line about twice coarser than those of the main ciliation. 

 Marginal fringes at apex of fore wing short, short er than those 

 disto-caudad which are much short er than the moderat ely long 

 ones of the hind margins of the hind wing. Pedicel much longer 

 than the proximal club joint which is only about a third the length 

 of the discal joint. Hind wings near tip with about five lines of 

 discal cilia, a pair at caudal margin, one at cephalic margin and two 



