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Described from many male and female specimens reared by 

 Professor Paul Marchal, of Paris, from Diaspis ostreczformis 

 on pear, June, 1896.* 



AZOTUS, new genus. 



Male. Tarsi 5-jointed; antennae 8-jointed ; club 2-jointed; joint 3 of 

 the funicle much shorter than other funicle joints; anterior wings with 

 out oblique hairless line; head not quite as broad as thorax; mesoscu- 

 tellum not quite as broad as scutellum, twice as broad as long; axillae and 

 mesoscutar parapsides about as in Eretmocerus; marginal vein a trifle 

 shorter than submarginal ; stigmal well marked, descending at an angle 

 of about 30 into the disc of the wing; club not large; postmarginal 

 absent; fore-wings with rather long marginal cilia regularly increasing 

 in length from point just beyond stigmal vein to anal angle; marginal 

 vein of fore-wings with three long bristles and four shorter ones ; one on 

 submarginal and one short one at juncture of submarginal with marginal. 

 Hind femora somewhat swollen. Middle and hind tibiae each with a 

 rather long apical spur. That on middle tibia longer. 



FIG. ii. Azotus marchali; male antennae, fore 

 wing and hind leg greatly enlarged 

 (original). 



* Just as this is going to the printer 4 specimens of the female of this 

 species have been received from F. M. Webster, of Wooster, O., who 

 reared them from Diaspis amygdali recently received from Japan. Six 

 females were also reared from an Aspidiotus on sweet gum from Savan 

 nah, Ga. The writer also possesses several badly damaged specimens of 

 what is probably this species, which were reared, by Mr. E. E. Green in 

 Ceylon, from Chionaspis vitis. 



