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Described from three males and one female, reared July, 1887, at Ala- 
meda, Cal., by A. Koebele, from Lecanium on Adenostema fasciculatum. 
This species interferes with a suggested generalization made by the 
writer in a paper entitled “The hairy eyes in Hymenoptera” (Proc. 
Entom. Soc. Wash., vol. I, p. 195) to the effect that the hairy eyes in the 
subfamily Aphelinine are associated with a black color. This holds 
with the typical genus Aphelinus, in which all the yellow species have 
naked eyes, the two black species (A. mali and A. flaviceps) having 
hairy eyes. Having a yellow species of Coccophagus, we should expect 
naked eyes; but here hairiness of the eyes seems to be a generic 
character. 
Genus PROSPALTA Howard. 
Prospalta Howard. Insect Life, vol. vil, p. 6, 1894. 
Via. 12.—Prospalta murtfeldtii Howard—-greatly enlarged (from Insect Life). 
Female.—Anterior wings with no oblique transverse hairless line 
below stigma. Antenne 8-jointed; club 3-jointed; all joints subequal 
in length; first joint of club widest. Head transverse; ocelli at corners 
of an oblique-angled triangle. Eyes naked. Thorax wider than head; 
mesoseutar parapsides club-shaped, broadening suddenly on distal 
side; axillee extending anteriorly to swelling of parapsides; metascu- 
tellum broad and short; legs rather stout; all tarsi short; first joint 
of hind tarsi only as long as second; first joint of middle and front 
tarsilonger than second. Ovipositor slightly extruded. Wings broad; 
submarginal vein reaching nearly to middie of wing; marginal much 
shorter than submarginal; stigmal very short, its anterior border nearly 
parallel with costa, its posterior border extending into disk of wing at 
an angle of 45° with costa; outer margin of fore-wing with rather short 
cilia; hind margin of hind-wings with somewhat longer cilia. First 
abdominal joint much the longest; abdomen as a whole equaling thorax 
in length; whole body tapering gradually from tegulie to tip of abdomen. 
