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3. Scutel not pointed at base, but normal 4 



Scutel pointed at base. Length 0.55 mm abnonnis 



4. Anterior wings with only a faint cloud beneath stigma. 



Length 0.78 mm diaspidis 



Anterior wings with a distinct cloud occupying all of the 

 central portion, and accentuated below stigma and at its 

 proximal border. Length 0.6 mm fuscipennis 



°A. mali Haldeman. 



Parasitic on the woolly apple aphis (Schisoneura lanigera), 

 Glyphina eragrostidis, Aphis brassicce, A. monardce, Pemphigus 

 fraxinifolii, Siphonophora rosce. 



°A mytilaspidis Le Baron. U. S. Dept. Agric, Rept. Ento- 

 mologist, 1880, PI. 23, Fig. I. 



Listed as an American parasite of Diaspis carueli, Lepido- 

 saphes ulmi and Chionaspis pinifolii. 



°A. abnormis Howard. 



Probably an aberration of the preceding species. Bred from 

 Lepidosaphes ulmi. 



°A. diaspidis Howard. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull, i. Technical 

 Series, Fig. 7. 



Listed as an American parasite of Diaspis rosce, Lepidosaphes 

 on an orchid, and an undetermined Sycaste from Japan. 

 °A. fuscipennis Howard. 



Reared from the San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) , 

 Chionaspis euonymi, Lepidosaphes gloveri, L. ulmi, and from 

 a species of Aspidiotus on Acacia longifolia. 



Eretmocerus Haldeman. 

 °E. comi Haldeman. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull, i, Technical 

 Series, Fig. 2 (antennae). 



Eyes hairy, antennal club of female oar-shaped. 

 Bred from Aleyrodes comi. 



Ablenis Howard. 

 °A. clisiocampafe Ashmead. Centrodora clisiocampcs Ash- 

 mead. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull, i. Technical Series, Fig. 14. 



Length 0.7 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor 0.18 mm. 

 long ; mostly black, and somewhat metallic ; thorax above with a 

 greenish luster, abdomen appearing bluish; antennae mostly 



