No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 5OI 



and white; wings with a broad dusky band; intermediate tarsi 

 white except at tip. 



Parasitic on Coccinellids. 



Aphycus Mayr. 



°A. pulchellus Howard. 



Female: length 1.35 mm.; mostly dark orange; ocelli nearly 

 equidistant, the lateral ones well separated from the eye margin 

 and nearer to the anterior ocellus than to each other ; scape black, 

 slightly orange above near the apex, pedicel mogtly black, light at 

 tip, funicle with its first joint brown, its second, third, and some- 

 times fourth, joints light brown, rest of funicle and club dirty 

 yellow ; metanotum pallid ; wings hyaline, veins apparently color- 

 less; all legs pallid; abdomen elliptical, pallid above. 



Bred from a species of Kermes on Quercus tinctoria. 



°A. pulvinariae Howard. 



Female : length i mm. ; mostly dull yellow ; scape mostly 

 black, whitish at tip, with a leaf-like expansion beneath, pedicel 

 black at base, yellowish white beyond, first three joints of funicle 

 dusky, the other funicular joints yellowish white, club dark 

 brown, lighter at apex, compressed, and as long as the four pre- 

 ceding joints combined; metanotum and dorsum of abdomen 

 dusky, nearly black. 



Bred from Pulvinaria innumerahilis and Lecanium Hetcheri. 



°A. flavus Howard. 



Female: length 1.2 mm,; mostly bright orange-yellow; scape 

 with a dusky patch above and somewhat broadened beneath on 

 its basal half, club nearly as long as the funicle, compressed, and 

 with its basal half dark brown, first and second funicular joints 

 slightly dusky; wings clear, the veins yellowish. 



This is an American parasite of the cosmopolitan 

 • Lepidosaphes citricola. 



°A. brunneus Howard. 



Female: length 1.06 mm.; body mostly yellow brown, yellow 

 beneath; head shagreened, scape not broadened, pedicel brown, 

 flagel yellowish, club brown; mesonotum between parapsidal 

 grooves, scapulae, and scutel densely punctate, the punctures of 

 the two former transversely oval and those of the latter longi- 



