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purplish, with a metallic lustre, especially at the dorsum of the abdomen. 

 Eyes dark, prominent ; ocelli ruby red, with some yellow. 



Antennae black, the middle or intermediate longitudinal portion of 

 the sides of the scape silvery white, the white stripe reaching the margin 

 at apex, at the dilation. Flead, prothorax, scutellurn, ventral base of 

 abdomen, thoracic pleurtie and venter dark chrome-yellow, the axillse still 

 darker, the vertex and face with some traces of a purplish sheen. Legs 

 dark yellowish, with some purplish above, the intermediate femora with a 

 white annulus near the apex; tarsi yellowish, the posterior pair white, with 

 two apical joints dusky. Distal two-thirds of the wing fuliginous, the 

 extreme apex and the basal third hyaline ; in reflected light wings purple; 

 sooty colour more pronounced in a small triangular area between the 

 indistinct oblique hairless line and the marginal vein, and less so in the 

 portion of the wing included between the marginal vein and the posterior 

 margin ; a somewhat irregular longitudinal lighter area in the middle of 

 the wing, near the posterior margin. Hind wings hyaline. 



Antennae ii-jointed ; scape longer than the combined lengths of the 

 pedicel and first two fanicle joints ; pedicel obconic, longer than the 

 funicle joint i ; funicle gradually, regularly enlarging to club ; funicle 

 joints I and 2 subequal, i slightly narrower and longer ; funicle joints 3 

 and 4 subequal, larger, 4 somewhat larger than 3 ; joints 4 and 5 of 

 funicle subequal, 4 slightly smaller, both still larger than 3 and 4, and 

 wider than long ; club joints slightly wider than joints 5 and 6 of funicle, 

 the basal joint subquadrate, the two apical joints narrow, much wider than 

 long. 



(From two specimens, two-thirds-inch objective, two-inch optic. 

 Bausch and Lomb.) 



Male. — Unknown. 



This species is superficially like Chrysopophagus coinpressicornis 

 Ashmead. Described from two tag-mounted females reared from Kermes 

 pubescefis Bogue, on oak, Urbana, Illinois, July i, 1908. 



Type : Accession No. J/.J^o, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History, Urbana, Illinois, one female, tag mounted ; head and antenna (i 

 slide) and antenna (r slide), both in xylol-balsam. 



Tribe Mi?tni. 

 ^^fiasioidea, genus novum. 

 Normal position. 



Female. — Length moderate for the tribe. 



