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lowish tinge on the ventral sides of joints 5 and 6. The abdomen is very short and 
its dorsum is black with an orange margin in which the black spiracles show very dis- 
tinctly, each furnished with a few long black hairs. The legs are semitransparent, 
with the tibial spots not so strongly marked as in the female. 
Described from 2 $’s and 2 2’s, bred May 7, 1883, from a Lecanium 
on the water-oak (Q. aquatica) collected at Bluffton, S. C., by Dr. J. H. 
Mellichamp. The same Lecanium harbored Chiloneurus albicornis 
Howard, and occurs on Quercus lawrifolia at Mobile, Ala., where it is 
parasited by Comys fusca Howard. 
This species seems to be closely related to Aphycus punctipes (Dalm.), 
though the descriptions of the latter are too meager to form a definite 
idea of it. Certainly the colored figure by Westwood in Stephens’s 
Hlustrations of British Entomology (Supplement, Plate XLVI, Fig. 4) 
cannot be at all correct as to coloration. 
Mr. Ashmead’s Coccophagus annulipes should also be placed in this 
genus, and will prove closely related to this species, although I have 
as yet seen but one mutilated specimen. 
Two females of what is probably only a variety of this species, having 
only the first funicie joint brown, are contained in Dr. Riley’s collection, 
and are said to be parasitic on Attelabus bipustulatus. With our knowl- 
edge of ‘the habits of the genus we can say with almost perfect cer- 
tainty that these females were not parasitic upon the Attelabus but upon 
some unnoticed Lecanium attached to the leaves of which the case of 
the beetle larva was made. [C. V. R. Coll.] 
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Genus BOTHRIOTHORAX Ratzeburg. 
Female.—The body is rather broad and flattened. The antenna arise not far from 
the border of the mouth; the scape is quite long and not flattened ; the pedicel is as 
long as or longer than the first funicle joint; this last is as long as or longer than thick 
the club is shorter than the funicle or (with &. paradoxus) twice as long. The face 
is delicately impressed; vertex and clypeus are very broad, and the ocelli form a very 
obtuse-angiled triangle. The thin (antero-posteriorly) broad (laterally) head is very 
deeply punctured, as are also mesonotum and scatellum; in the center of each pune- 
ture is a little papilla, from which springs a delicate little hair; besides this, there is 
a leather-like sculpture. The mesonvtum and secutellum are rather strongly trans- 
versely arched, and the lateral borders of the latter are quite sharp. The ovipositor 
is not at all, or very slightly, extended. The marginal vein of the hyaline wings is 
very short or is lacking; the stigmal is long and the postmarginal is short, or very 
short. 
Male.—Very similar to the female and only distinguished by the antenn and by 
the sparser punctuation of the head. The pedicel is short, somewhat longer than 
thick; the funicle quite extended, and the joints small and strongly arched beneath, 
s0 that the funicle appears somewhat toothed above; most of the joints have two 
half whoris of long hair; the club is almost as long as the two last funicle joints to- 
gether. 
