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light-fuscous mixed with darker: on costa suffused with dark-fuscous 
to about half, with dark-fuscous dots just before and beyond two- 
thirds; on all segments darker opposite dark bands. Hind wing 
cleft into six segments: first cleft from within half, second from 
about a quarter, third from beneath base of first cleft, fourth from 
about one-third, fifth from about one-sixth; segments linear: light 
fuscous irrorated with darker. Cilia light-fuscous, very long on 
dorsal margin. 
Type ¢ in Oxford University Museum. It is labelled 
‘Orange River Colony, near Bothaville, Valsch River, five 
miles from Vaal, Blockhouse No. 74, captured April to mid- 
June, 1902, and presented 1902 by E. N. Bennett.’ It also 
bears a manuscript label, ‘‘May 1st, Blockhouse.’ I am 
indebted to Professor E. B. Poulton for the opportunity of 
examining this specimen. 
M. antennatus differs from M. fortis in its smaller size and 
more dingy coloration, but is easily separated in the male sex 
by the antenne, which are only very shortly ciliated in the type 
(male) of fortis which I have been able to examine through the 
kind courtesy of Lord Walsingham. 
ON THE HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES OF COCCIDA. 
By Cuaupe Mortey, F.Z.S., F.H.S. 
Tue extremely injurious nature of the Homoptera included in 
this family is perhaps better appreciated in warmer climates 
than in Britain, where the amount of damage annually done to 
our fruit-trees, &c., by these insects is by no means at present 
fully recognized. When this is the case it will be more clearly 
seen to what a very great extent the Hymenopterous parasites 
which destroy them are our friends than we are at present 
inclined to allow. Many of our leading entomologists, I have 
no hesitation in saying, are entirely ignorant that Coccids are 
attacked by the Parasitica at all; and since so little is published 
upon the subject in my friend Mr. Newstead’s admirable ‘ Mono- 
graph of the Coccide of the British Isles’ (Ray Soc. 1900 et 
1902), no apology is, I think, needed for bringing forward in as 
succinct a form as possible what is known of this fascinating 
subject. Iam greatly indebted to Mr. Newstead for assistance 
in the Hemipterous synonymy, and to Ashmead’s paper ‘‘ On 
the Genera of the Chalcid Flies belonging to the Subfamily 
Encyrtine”’ (Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, 1900, pp. 823-412) for 
the elucidation of at least one of the main groups of these 
beneficial insects. 
Extra-British hosts are denoted by an asterisk. 
