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form was taken in August 1907 at North Adams, Mass., by Owen 



Bryant. 



Male. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae one-fifth longer than the body, 

 thickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth binodose, slightly 

 trinodose, with stems two and one-half times their diameters; terminal 

 segment having the basal stem with a length five times its diameter, 

 the distal enlargement cylindric, with a length three times its diam- 

 eter and bearing an irregular, fingerlike process apically. Palpi 

 quadriarticulate (Fig. 65); face pale yellowish. Mesonotum dark 

 brown, the posterior median area and submedian lines yellowish, 

 the last sparsely setose. Scutellum pale reddish yellow, thickly 

 setose apically, postscutellum pale yellowish. Abdomen yellowish 

 brown, rather thickly setose; pleurae yellowish transparent. Wings 

 hyaline, costa light brown; halteres pale yellowish, transparent. 

 Legs a pale brown; claws rather stout, strongly curved, the anterior 

 unindentate, the pulvilli about half as long as the claws. Genitalia; 

 basal clasp segment broad, with a slender spinose process apically; 

 terminal clasp segment long, stout; dorsal plate broad, deeply and 

 triangularly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded; ventral plate slender, 

 broadly emarginate, the lobes short, broadly rounded. Harpes 

 short, heavily chitinized, greatly convoluted. Type Cecid. 271. 

 (See plate 11, fig. i) 



Lobodiplosis coccidarum Felt 



191 1 Felt, E. P. Can. Ent., 43:195-96 



1914 Econom. Ent. Jour., 7:458 



This remarkably interesting species was reared by W. H. Patterson, 

 St Vincent, W. L, in February igii from larvae preying on the 

 eggs of Dactylopius citri. A study of other forms having 

 similar habits and an examination of the original description of 

 Diplosis coccidarum Ckll. convinces us that the earlie-^ 

 described species is very different from the one under consideration. 

 This latter is tentatively referred to the genus Lobodiplosis because 

 of the rudimentary lobe on the basal clasp segment, though the 

 strongly reduced terminal clasp segment and the lack of chitinization 

 in the harpes, so conspicuous in typical species of the genus, indicates 

 a different line of development. 



Lobodiplosis cincta n. sp. 



This rather striking species was taken at Newport, N. Y., July 

 23, 1906 and is tentatively placed here. 



Female. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 

 haired, yellowish brown; 15 segments, the fifth with astern about 

 three-fourths the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 



