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nearly smooth, shining; tegule, pleura, and abdomen smooth. Wings 
hyaline. General color glistening black; antennal scape dusky; pedi- 
cel nearly white; first funicle joint dark brown; joints 2 and 3 nearly 
white, somewhat yellowish; club light brown; mesopostscutellum 
nearly white; all cox black; trochanters nearly white; all femora 
and tibize black or dark brown, lighter at extremities; tarsi all nearly 
white, including terminal joints; pile on sides of abdomen and hind 
femora white, showing distinctly against the black surface. 
Described from one female specimen, reared March 1, from Aspidio- 
tus ancylus on linden, District of Columbia. There is also a large 
series of specimens of this species in the National Museum collection 
reared from Chionaspis quercus, at Alameda, Cal., by A. Koebele, in 
August. Among the series is a number of males, but none are in con- 
dition for description. Such antennal fragments as remain, however, 
show that the antenne are probably of a uniform brown color. Mr. 
W.G. Johnson has also sent me from the State Laboratory of Natural 
History at Champaign, Ill., a series of five specimens reared from his 
manuscript Chionaspis americana on elm. 
