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ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF COCCOPHAGUS. 
Females. 
Wings hyaline. 
Generalcolordarks honey=yellow. = 2-6 <<. =~ =-1- oem pe ccen = os mn ochraceus 
General color black. 
Hind border of mesoscutum with a band of yellow; scntellum entirely 
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Hind border of scutum black; scutellum more or less yellow. 
Head rather coarsely punctulate; apical two-fifths of scutellum yellow, 
excepu aon black spot at: bip.s-s2- esc ess es <== = lunulatus 
Head not coarsely punctulate. 
Secutellum with a narrow but complete marginal yellow band. 
californicus 
Seutellum with apical half yeilow; tegule black. 
Punctures of scutum arranged in longitudinal rows; front and 
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Not solarranced= alll tibiee dark- -- 55222 -6- -2- = seen cognatus 
Seutellum yellow only at tip; all tibie brown, yellow at either end; 
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Nearly all of scutellum and postscutellum yellow; tegule brown, 
flavoscutellum 
Seutellum black; face yellow; punctation of mesonotum nearly obsolete 
Jlavifrons 
Body entirely black; mesonotum with sparse round punctures, a regular row 
around) hindjborder of scutum= -2-5--.--.------ immaculatus 
Wanessdusky; body uniformly purplish black..--:-.-..-...---.--------- purpureus 
Males. 
Entire body black. 
A regular row of round punctures bordering hind edge of mesonotum.immaculatus 
Mesoscutum with sparse punctures, but without such a regular row. 
Tegulee brown; all tibie and tarsi yellow; hind tibie occasionally with 
duskyapabehmme ar Wasesse s-s1- eee eeeelen- eee ate oe flavoscutellum, lecantt 
Tegule black; all tibiz dark brown in middle, whitish at either end. fraternus 
Mesoscutellum tipped with yellow. 
General color, brown; mesoscutum irregularly but sparsely punctate... .cognatus 
General color, black; punctation nearly obsolete.................--.- flavifrons 
Seutellum black; mesoscutum with terminal yellow bands. ._.........-----: scutalus 
(Cenernl e@lor lame ayellO\iy Gooa0 goon sade 06 Code <oeeoe San6 cobras Copobe codon ochraceus 
Coccophagus lecanii (I itch.) 
Platygaster lecanii Fitch. Fifth Report Insects of New York (1858), p. 25. 
Coccophagus lecanii E. A. Smith. Amer, Nat., 1878, p. 661; Seventh Rep. State 
Entomologist Illinois, 1878, p. 150. 
Coccophagus lecanii (Fitch) Howard. Report Entomologist, Annual Report U.S. 
Dept. Agr., 1880, pp. 357-358 ; Howard, Report on the Parasitic Hymenoptera, 
Island St. Vincent, Journ. Linnean Soc., Lond., vol. xxv, 1894, p. 97. 
Coccophagus ater Howard. Report Entomologist, Annual Report U. 8. Dept. 
Agr., 1880, p. 359. 
Female.—Length, 1 mm.; wing expanse, 2.25 mm.; greatest width 
fore-wings, 0.42 mm. Antenne as long as the thorax; head, pronotum, 
and mesoseutum finely and sparsely punctured and furnished with 
short bristles, punctures of mesoscutum arranged in longitudinal rows. 
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