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Redescribed from many male and female specimens. Parasitic upon 
Lecanium hesperidum, Crescent City, Fla., H. G. Hubbard; Jackson- 
ville, Fla., W. H. Ashmead; Los Angeles, Cal., A. Koebele; Lecanium 
sp., New Alameda, Cal., H. W. Turner; Dactylopius destructor, District 
of Columbia, Th. Pergande; Lecaniwm sp., Los Angeles, Cal., D. W. 
Coquillett; Lecanium tulipifere, Molino, Fla. (Department of Agricul- 
ture); Pulvinaria on plum, Florence, 8. C. (Department of Agriculture) ; 
Pulvinaria sp. on Sullengia, Rockport, Tex., E. A. Schwarz; Pulvinaria 
innumerabilis, Roslyn, N. Y., L. H. West (Department of Agriculture) ; 
Lecanium sp. on Adenostema, Alameda, Cal., A. Koebele; Lecanium sp. 
on Arctostaphylos, Sonoma, Cal., A. Koebele; Lecanium sp. on plum, 
Ottawa County, Ohio, F. M. Webster. 
Coccophagus californicus Howard. 
Coccophagus californicus Howard. Insect Life, vol. 1, p. 269 ( March, 1889). 
Female.—Length, 1.4 mm.; expanse, 2.1 mm.; greatest width of fore- 
wing, 0.39 mm. Abdomen broader than thorax and one-third longer. 
Pedicel and joints 2 and 3 of funicle subequal in length; joint 1 of 
funicle one-third longer. Eyes rather more plainly hairy than usual. 
General color dark brown, nearly black, no punctation visible. Meso- 
seutellum lighter in color than rest of thorax, except at immediate base, 
its posterior edge with a narrow band of bright lemon-yellow extend- 
ing from one lateral angle around the curved border to the opposite 
lateral angle, of nearly equal width throughout, at its widest portion 
measuring 0.027 mm.; all coxze brown; all trochanters yellowish white; 
all femora brown, yellow at tip; more yellow at tip of front femora, less 
at tip of middle, and still less at tip of posterior femora; front tibie 
light yellow, very slightly dusky; middle tibize entirely light yellow; 
hind tibie yellowish, with a brownish shade near base; all tarsi 
yellowish white, last joint dusky. Wings hyaline, veins light brown, 
distinct. 
Described from one female specimen reared from a female Icerya 
purchasi at Los Angeles, Cal., July 6, 1887, by Mr. D. W. Coquillett. 
Coccophagus lunulatus Howard (fig. 11.) 
Coccophagus lunulatus Howard. Insect Life, vol. v1, p. 232 (Feb., 1>94). 
Female.—Length, 0.93 min.; expanse, 2 mm.; greatest width of fore- 
wing, 0.39 mm. Head rather coarsely punctulate, opaque; mesonotum 
very finely shagreened, somewhat glistening; mesoseutellum with apical 
bristles very long; abdomen smooth, shining. General color black; 
apical three-fifths of mesoscutellum bright orange, with an irregular 
black spot at tip, and with the dividing line between the orange and 
black irregular; tegule black; antennz with the scape black and the 
flagellum dark fuscous; front legs, including cox, light orange yellow, 
considerably lighter than the mesoscutellum; middle and hind cox and 
hind femora black; middle and hind trochanters, tibie, and tarsi and 
