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This form may be at once distinguished from the preceding by the 
fact that its fore-wings are twice as broad in comparison to their length, 
are perfectly clear, and have no very long cilia on their anterior mar- 
gin. It is a Somewhat larger species and lighter in color. 
(3) COCCOPHAGUS LUNULATUS n. sp. 
In November, 1892, Mr. Coquillett sent to the Division some orange 
leaves thickly covered with the Red Seale for use in the collections 
which were then being prepared for the Chicago Exposition. These 
leaves were carefully mounted, but as it would be some little time before 
they would be needed for the boxes, they were placed in a glass jar to 
ascertain whether they were parasitised. A week later a single para- 
a PTEICOy (Qaazav>, LS 
N Do - . 
Fig. 8.—Coccophagus lunulatus n. sp.; greatly enlarged (original). 
site issued which proved to be a typical Coccophagus (not an aberrant 
one like the preceding species), but belonging to an undescribed species. 
It is a very handsome form and is readily distinguished by its colora- 
tion no less than by its structural features from any of the other Red 
Seale parasites. 
COCCOPHAGUS LUNULATUS Nh. sp. 
Female.—Length, 0:93 mm. ; expanse, 2 mm.; greatest width of fore- wings, 0°39 mm. 
Head rather coarsely punctulate, opaque; mesonotum very finely shagreened, some- 
what glistening; mesoscutellum with apical bristles very long; abdomen smooth, 
shining. General color black; apical three-fifths of mesocutellum bright orange, | 
with anirregular black spot at tip and with the dividing line between the orange 
and black irregular; tegule black; antennze with the scape black and the flagellum 
dark fuscous; front legs, including cox, light orange yellow, considerably lighter, 
than the mesoscutellum; middle and hind cox and hind femora black, middle and 
hind trochanters, tibiwe and tarsi and middle femora light orange yellow. Wings 
hyaline, veins dark brown, marginal cilia very short. 
Described from one female reared December 5, 1892, from Aspidiotus 
aurantii received from D. W. Coquillett, Los Angeles, Cal. 
