Pomona College Journal of Entomology 



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Cresson's Original Description 



"Female — Piceoiis or shining black, smooth and polished, impunctured ; 

 •nandibles and palpi pale ; antenna? brownish black, sometimes more or less pale 

 beneath, tliirteen-jointed, the joints faintly fluted or grooved, tiie last one longest 

 and thickest; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma pale; legs, including coxas, yellow- 

 ish-testaceous, tlie posterior pair generally more or less fuscous or blackish ; 

 abdomen often brown or pale piceous, with the first, and sometimes part of the 

 second, segment more or less testaceous. Length 0.07 inch. 



Figure 206. Aphidius testaceipes, on left: Charips xanthopsis, on right. 



"Habitat — Rock Ledge, Florida; Selma, Ala., and Pocomoke City, Md. Para- 

 sitic upon an apliid infesting twigs of orange, an aphid on the cotton plant, and 

 Aphis avenae Fabr." 



