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Eedescribed from 25 females reared from a Kermes on oaks col- 

 lected at different times and from various localities in southern 

 California. 



72. COCCOPHAGUS IMMACULATUS Howard 



Plate 9, Figure 70 ; Plate 11, Figure 107 ; Plate 13, Figure 158 



Coccophagtis inrniaculains Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr. Rept. Ent. for 1880, 1881, 

 p. 358 ; U. S. Dept. Agi-i. Div. Ent. Tech. Series, No. 1, 1895, p. 35. — Mercet, 

 Trab. Mus. Cienc. Nat. No. 10, 1912, p. 236. 



This species is of moderate size and slender stature, with hyaline 

 wings and densely setose scutellum. The other prevailingly black 

 or dark-brown species with a setose scutellum are usually of stouter 

 stature than is this species. The tag-mounted specimen is badly 

 shriveled. 



Female. — General color dark brownish black with the propodeum 

 yellowish. Originally described as black in color but the paratype 

 examined is distinctly suffused with brownish, especially on the 

 mesopleura. The propodeum (metanotum of Howard) originally 

 described as lemon yellow, now appears slightly marked with brown- 

 ish across the meson. Flagellum of antenna brownish yellow, sen- 

 soria blackish. Scape blackish. Cheeks and face dark brown. Fore 

 coxae brown; middle and hind coxae pallid white. All trochanters 

 pale, those of fore legs somewhat yellowish, the others pallid white. 

 Femora of fore legs brownish, slightly pale at ends. Basal third of 

 middle femora pallid white, extreme apex pale, intermediate portion 

 brownish. Basal third of hind femora pallid white, remainder 

 brown. Fore tibiae slightly brownish; middle and hind tibiae dis- 

 tinctly yellow. All tarsi yellowish, those of middle and hind legs 

 paler than those of fore legs. All apical tarsal joints slightly dusky. 



Antennal scape of usual shape, slender and slightly subfusiformly 

 cylindrical. Pedicel plainly longer than wide and much shorter 

 than first funicle joint. First funicle joint longest, a trifle more 

 than twice as long as wide; second and third each successively 

 shorter and a trifle wider, all plainly longer than wide. First club 

 joint almost as long as third funicle joint and plainly wider, a trifle 

 wider than long ; second the shortest, wider than long ; third a trifle 

 longer than second, and not quite as wide as long. The short second 

 club joint may be an abnormality. To the eye the club joints 

 appear subequal in length (fig. 70), In the figure, the dotted outline 

 of the pedicel and scape was drawn by eye from the parts remaining 

 on the tag mount. 



Fore wings hyaline, with basal cilia arranged as shown in Figure 

 158. Submarginal vein slightly longer than the marginal, stigmal 

 and postmarginal shown in Figure 107, Marginal fringe short, 

 0,0248 mm. 



