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disto-caudad, lengthening gradually around the apex from the costal margin. 

 The oblique hairless line runs in front of the apex of the stigmal vein. 

 Posterior wing with about four lines of discal cilia, its longest marginal cilia 

 (caudad) nearly as long as the wing's greatest width. Middle tibial spur long 

 but slender. Mandibles tridentate. Parapsidal furrows complete. Cephalic 

 tarsi with a strigil. Eyes naked, genitalia projecting slightly. 



Antennse 6-jointed: shaft of scape cylindrical but nearly concealed by 

 an enormous ovate leaf-like expansion above and below, which runs its whole 

 length ; scape as long as the flagellum ; pedicel normal, obconic, longer than 

 either of the following joints ; the two funicle joints unequal, the first a third 

 (nearly a half) shorter than the second but distinctly longer than wide, the 

 second twice longer than wide; proximal club joint no longer than funicle 

 one, widening distad, somewhat differentiated from the distal joint which is 

 large, about four times the length of the proximal joint, a third wider and 

 conic-ovate; the distal club joint is longer than the funicle. Pubescence of. 

 antennze sparse. Expansion of scape with a distinct scaly sculpture. 



Female. — Unknown. 



From a single male specimen mounted in xylol-balsam and cap- 

 tured on the panes of an old shed on a farm at Centralia, 111., June 21, 



1911 (A. A. G.). 



Type— Cat. No. I4J2I, United States National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, one male in xylol-balsam. 



Genus COCCOPHAGUS Westwood. 

 Coccophagus lecanii (Fitch). 



The following Illinois record; Many specimens from a Lecanium 

 scale on osage orange, Chicago, 111., August 10-16, 1908 (J. J. Davis). 



Genus PHYSCUS Howard. 

 Physcus varicornis Howard. 



The following Illinois records: A male and female specimen reared 

 from Aspidiotus pcrnicwsiis Comstock, Urbana, 111., July 11 and 4, 

 1907, respectively (J. A. West). Another female from same host 

 lot. July 4, 1907; eight males, four females reared from Chionaspis 

 amerkana Johnson on elm, Chicago, May 24, 1908 (J. J. Davis) ; 

 from hibernated Chionaspis furfitra Fitch on apple, 20 April, 1908, 

 Urbana (one male, two females). 



The male has never been described. Its antennae are filiform, 8- 

 jointfed, uniform in color, the club not differentiated, the pedicel very 

 short in comparison with the proximal funicle jomt. 



