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b. Aleiodes pedalis, n. sp. 



9 — Pale yellow or lutopus ; head, antennse, four posterior tibiae 

 except base, and their tarsi, black; wings yellow-hyaline, nervures 

 luteous, the apex and a faint cloud beneath stigma fuliginous; meta- 

 thorax subrugose; abdomen finely sculptured, the two basal segments 

 hairy, the central and lateral carinas sharply defined. Length 4|lines. 

 Ilab. — Mexico. Prof. Sumichrast. 



6. Aleiodes fiavidus. 



Rogas flaviduH, Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1S65. p. 83. %. 

 Hah. — Cuba. Prof Poey. 



7. Aleiodes terminalis, n. sp. 



% 9- — Black, shilling; mandibles, palpi, antennsc except extreme 

 base, and tegulcc, brown ; thorax finely sculptured ; metathorax rugose, 

 clothed with pale pubescence, and with a well defined central carina ; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures testaceous, stigma brown ; legs 

 honey-yellow or ferruginous, tips of posterior femora, their tibiae, except 

 a more or less broad whitish annulus near base, and their tarsi black ; 

 abdomen sparsely pubescent ; two basal segments honey-yellow or fer- 

 ruginous, longitudnially rugose, with central carina entire and well 

 defined; remaining segments black, smooth, shining. Length 3 — 4 lines. 



Hah. — Eastern, Middle, Southern and Western States. Common. 



8. Aleiodes abdominalis, n. sp. 



$ — Black, shining, sparsely pubescent; clypeus, mandibles, palpi 

 and antenna), rufo-testaceous; teguloe pale luteous; metathorax rugose; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures fuscous; legs and abdomen honey- 

 yellow or ferruginous, tibia; and tarsi sometimes yellow ; apical jointof 

 tarsi black; two basal segments of abdomen opaque, longitudinally ru- 

 gose, central and lateral carina; sharply defined; base of third segment 

 aciculate, remainder smooth and shining; sometimes the two or three 

 apical segments are more or less blackish. Length 4 lines. 

 Hah. — Eastern and Middle States. 



9. Aleiodes lectas, n. sp. 



% — Differs from ahdominaUs by the fourth and following segments 

 of abdomen being black and densely clothed with a beautiful silvery 

 sericeous pile; in one specimen most of the basal segment is black. 

 Length o-j — 4 lines. 



Hah. — Illinois. This may be the % of ahdominaUs. 



10. Aleiodes parasiticus. 



Aleiodes parasiticus, Norton, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, p. 327, % 5 • 

 Hah. — Eastern, Middle and Western States. This is parasitic upon 

 Lophyrus ahietis, Leach. 



