No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT, 495 



°C. fusca Howard. 



Female: length 2.6 mm.; face punctate, yellowish brown, 

 vertex dusky, cheeks blackish, mouth-parts dusky, scape and 

 pedicel honey-yellow beneath, brown above, flagel blackish, with 

 black hairs; prothorax ochreous, mesonotum between the parap- 

 sidal grooves, and tegulse, ochreous, the latter blackish at tip, 

 scapulae ochreous, densely and finely punctate, axillae and scutel 

 ochreous, with yellow hairs anteriorly and the tuft black, meta- 

 notum black, except postscutel, which has an ochreous tinge; 

 wings as in the preceding species except that the markings are 

 clearer and more distinct, the veins black, except at the trans- 

 verse clear spot, and the stigmal vein more curved; front 

 coxae transparent and whitish, their femora, tibiae and tarsi 

 honey-yellow ; mid and hind coxae yellowish, blackish at tips, mid 

 femora yellowish, slightly darker above, their tibiae almost black, 

 yellowish at tip, middle spurs and middle tarsi yellowish, claws 

 blackish, hind legs with femora and tibiae nearly black, their tarsi 

 whitish, except apical joint; abdomen shining black, pedunculate. 



Male: similar to female except as follows: scapulae dusky, 

 prothorax black above, brownish yellow beneath, mesonotum 

 between parapsidal grooves blackish in the middle, ochreous at 

 sides. 



Bred from a species of Lecanium on laurel-leaved oak. 



''C. albicoxa Ashmead. 



Female : length nearly 2 mm. ; head and thorax ferruginous 

 and with pubescence, finely transversely sculptured, and with 

 some large, widely separated punctures on the head ; palpi black ; 

 antennae 11 -jointed, pubescent; scape slightly curved and slightly 

 dilated, white except at tip; pedicel and following joints black, 

 each joint flattened and gradually widened toward club; pro- 

 thorax black, mesothorax, scutel and pleurae microscopically 

 longitudinally strigose, scutel with a tuft of black bristles 

 arranged in two rows toward tip; all coxae pure white; anterior 

 legs with their femora white, their tibiae honey-yellow, brownish 

 at tips, their tarsi yellowish white; mid legs with their femora, 

 tibiae and tarsi honey-yellow ; hind legs with their femora, tibiae 

 and tibial spurs dark brown, their tarsi, except basal portion of 

 first joint, white, their claws dusky; wings brown, with a white 



