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thickness. Joints 1,2 and 3 of the funicle increase very slightly or 
not at all in thickness and decrease slightly in length. Club very 
plainly 3-jointed, a little broader at middle than at base, pointed or 
rounded at tip, and rather longer than funicle joints 2 and 3 together. 
With the male the club is less compact and is narrower than with the 
female. Mesoscutum large, posterior border with a slight re-entering 
angle. Parapsidal sutures curved, mesoscutellum about as long as 
broad, rounded behind; wings equally hairy, except at immediate base. 
No hairless line; marginal vein as long as or longer than submarginal; 
postmarginal lacking; stigmal very short. Middle tibial spur strong, 
not as long as first tarsal joint. Eyes invariably hairy. 
The species of Coccophagus, with the exception of C. ochraceus, are all 
black in color, and frequently with a portion of the mesoscutellum and 
metanotum bright orange or yellow. With certain species the female 
Fic. 11.—Cocecophagus lunulatus Howard—greatly enlarged (from Insect Life). 
has the scutellum partly yellow, while the male is entirely black. Of 
the sixteen species catalogued by Cresson, annulipes Ashmead, as there 
stated, belongs to the encyrtine genus Aphycus; brunneus Provancher 
and compressicornis Provancher do not belong to this subfamily, but 
probably to the Tetrastichine, while pallipes Provancher belongs to 
Sympiesis. Of the remaining species Fitch’s lecanii will hold, and 
Ashmead’s flavoscutellum and the writer’s vividus are synonymical, and 
Ashmead’s species has priority. There remain eight of the writer’s 
species, certain of which have been thrown together after studying 
more abundant material, as will appear in the following pages. To 
these he has since added californicus (Insect Life, vol. I, p. 269), 
aurantii (loc. cit., vol. VI, p. 231), and lunulatus (loc. cit., vol. VI, p. 
233). Of these awrantii should be placed in Prospalta, as indicated in 
Insect Life (vol. Vit, p. 7.) 
