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by the pubescence, scutellar foveae almost as lustreless as the 

 scutel itself ; legs dark shiming brown, nearly black, but some- 

 what lighter at the joints ; wings hyaline, with a smoky brown 

 spot toward the base, areolet present, radial area open ; abdomen 

 black and shining, its first segment (above) two-thirds the 

 length of the abdomen as a whole. Was found ovipositing, 22 

 April, 1890, in buds of Quercus hicolor. 



The type locality for this species is probably Waterbury. 



*A. obtusilcbae Bassett, 



Female : length 2,5 mm, ; head, antennae and legs clear yellow- 

 ish red; antennse 13-jointed, the first joint club-shaped, the second 

 half as long as and the third equal to the first in length, the fol- 

 lowing joints each shorter than the next preceding, except the 

 apical joint, which is twice as long as the twelfth; head broader 

 than the thorax, vertex evenly and finely wrinkled or punctate ; 

 thorax with the surface of the mesonotum punctate, and traversed 

 in part by two parallel median longitudinal lines extending half- 

 way from the pronotum to the scutel in addition to the parapsidal 

 grooves which are present but indistinct, scutel finely wrinkled, 

 its foveae smooth ; wings not quite hyaline, their veins faint, radial 

 area open, areolet wanting, cubitus reaching two-thirds the dis- 

 tance to the first transverse vein ; abdomen polished. 



The type locality of this species is also probably Waterbury. 



*A. piperoides Bassett. 

 Female : length 3,5 mm. ; head microscopically punctate, an- 

 tennse 14-jointed, first joint ovate, the third one-third longer than 

 the first and second combined, the fourth to the seventh succes- 

 sively shorter than the next preceding, the joints beyond the 

 seventh ovate ; thorax smooth and shiny, mesonotum with dis- 

 tinct parapsidal grooves, scutel subquadrate, finely wrinkled, its 

 foveae distinct, the carina small, extending to its posterior mar- 

 gin; legs less dark than the rest of the body, which is almost 

 entirely dark reddish brown ; wings with distinct veins, areolet 

 obsolete or nearly so, reduced to a light spot at the crossing of 

 the distinct veins, cubitus extending almost to the first transverse 

 vein, radial area open, its basal vein terminating abruptly at a 

 distance from the costal border ; abdomen compressed from side 

 to side, giving the dorsal and ventral portions a sharp edge, almost 



