■with two large brown patches, one each side of middle line; scapulse each with a 

 li)rown patch; metauotum brownish; base of abdomen brown; tip of abdomen also 

 brown; antennte brown with the exception of joints 2 and 3 of the funicle, which 

 are whitish; all coxie and femora light honey yellow, except that hind femora are 

 dusky at base; front tibi;e with a dusky ring near middle; first and second tarsal 

 joints of fore legs dusky; middle and hind tibiiT" each with two dusky bands; first 

 tarsal joint of middle and hind legs dusky; wings hyaline with a fuscous basal patch 

 and a triangular median fuscous patch with its apex at stigmal vein and its base 

 reaching somewhat less than half of outer hind margin ; entire disk of wing densely, 

 finely, and uniformly ciliate. 



Described from fivebalsani-iuouuted female specimens reared by Miss 

 Mary E. Murtfeldt, at Kirkwood, Mo., from Aspidiotus uvcv. Received 

 November 4, 1888. 



To this genus may also be referred Cocco'phagus aurantii How. 

 described in Insect Life (vol. vi, p. 231). 



Ablerus* gen. nov. 

 Female. — Fore-wings with no transverse, hairy streak below stigma. Antennte 

 apparently only 7-jointed, club appearing unjointed; antennte simple, slightly cla- 

 vate; scape slender; pedicel as long as, or slightly longer, than funicle joint 1; funi- 

 cle joints 1, 2, and 4 subequal in length, 3 rather shorter; club as long as three last 



Fig. 3.— Ablerus clisiocampoe (A.shm.) : female, greatly enlarged (original). 



funicle joints together, furnished with two minute papillar projections at tip ; mesos- 

 cutar parapsides clavate, but not broadening suddeuly into a club; mesoscutellum 

 transverse ; abdomen semi-ovate ; ovipositor extruded for more than half the length 

 of abdomen. Wings short, narrow; marginal vein nearly as long as submarginal; 

 stigmal long, slender, one-third length of marginal, squarely truncate at tip, extend- 

 ing at a very sliglit angle into disk of wing; marginal vein with three principal 

 bristles, submarginal with one; cilia of border of wings as with Prospalta; hind 

 border of fore-wings with a longitudinal hairless streak and a slight fold extending 

 from base of wing nearly to middle; thickening of anal margin ojjposite tip of mar- 



'Aff^Tjpo^, nom. prop. 



