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thorax, greenish golden, with the surface crackled and sparsely covered 

 with short fine hair; eyes brownish purple ; antennae lo-jointed, black; 

 thorax elongate ovate, greenish brassy with a slightly elevated, golden, 

 finely transversely punctate shield in centre, extending from coUare to 

 two-thirds length of praescutellum, with the posterior end rounded, a 

 depression on either side running squarely off posteriorly perfectly smooth 

 and shining ; the scutellum small and convex, with the triangular praescu- 

 tellar pieces, almost joining, so closely do they press against it ; it is brassy 

 but ends posteriorly in a small, flattened, triangular point ; abdomen 

 purplish black, flattened above, keeled below ; ovipositor at base for one- 

 fifth the length purplish black, balance reddish brown ; wings hyaline, 

 veins yellowish to juncture of subcostal with costa, balance brown, a large 

 smoky brown blotch extending across the entire Aving from one-fourth the 

 length to near the tip of the wing ; legs uniform reddish brown. 



Described from one female bred specimen, bred May 2nd, from 

 Cynipidous live-oak gall, Cynips q. batatoides Ashmead. 



Genus Coccophagus, Westwood. 



COCCOPHAGUS ANNULIPES, n. Sp. 



% . Length .04 inch. Vertex of head red, ocelli black and triangu- 

 larly arranged ; eyes greenish, face and around mouth parts green, mandi- 

 bles tipped with black ; antenucC 9-jointed, clavate, scape somewhat 

 widened, black, 2nd joint larger than 3rd and 4th, basal half black, apical 

 half greenish yellow, joints 3 and 4 small, red, others gradually widening 

 to club, greenish yellow, club large and black ; thorax longer than abdo- 

 men, coUare very narrow, greyish or greenish ; mesothorax red, praescu- 

 tellum transverse, occupying the whole dorsum ; scutellum very large and 

 triangular, the base being as broad as the praescutellum, both sparsely 

 covered with short whitish hairs ; beneath, the surface, with the coxae, 

 femora and tibiae are the color of milky water, tibiae annulated with two 

 black bands, tarsi yellowish, ungues black ; abdomen obtusely pointed, 

 blackish above, greyish and with an ovipositor-groove beneath ; from a 

 stigma on each side issue three long black hairs ; wings hyaline, closely 

 covered with short hairs, veins yellowish. 



This unique little species was bred from a large brown Coccid scale 

 ( Lecanium sp.) occurring on Qtiercus aquaiica, and the description is made 

 from two female specimens, which hatched April 17th. 



