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than long, following joints longer with the second and sixth a little 

 shorter than the others, all increasing gradually in width so that the 

 last is twice as wide as the first joint, but only the sixth is considerably 

 wider than long; club oval, rounded at apex, about one- third wider 

 than the preceding joint and as long as the last three funicle j obits 

 combined. Wings as in mexicanus. Ovipositor protruded about one- 

 fifth the length of abdomen. Length: 1.1 mm., exclusive of ovi- 

 positor. 



Front and vertex brownish orange yellow; face, cheeks, occiput, 

 and entire underparts dull gamboge yellow; upper side of thorax and 

 abdomen bright cadmium yellow, with a brown spot on each side of 

 the propodeum and the apical half of the abdomen more gamboge 

 yellow; concealed part of pronotum black; collar of pronotum, pre- 

 pectal plates, and tegulse whitish, the collar with a small blackish dot 

 on each corner, and the tegulse brownish on the posterior margin. 

 Antennae in general concolorous with the face, the scape with a longi- 

 tudinal brown streak on upper margin of the outer surface, the base 

 of pedicel brown, the first three funicle joints dilute brownish, fading 

 gradually into the pure yellowish of the last three joints, club black 

 but becoming yellowish brown at apex. Legs concolorous with the 

 underparts, the tip of last joint of the tarsi blackish. Exserted part 

 of ovipositor gamboge yellow. Wings hyaline, the veins pale yel- 

 lowish. 



Male. Front and vertex about one and two thirds times longer 

 than wide; ocelli in a less acute-angled triangle than in the female, 

 the posterior pair about one-fourth their own diameter from the eye 

 margin. Antennae nearly as in the female, but the first three funicle 

 joints more roundish, the funicle as a whole and the club more 

 slender. Length: 1.0 mm. 



Front, vertex, and upper rim of occiput orange yellow with a brown- 

 ish spot between the posterior ocelli; face, cheeks, and most of the 

 underparts, including the venter of abdomen, gamboge yellow, the 

 prepectal plates and upper anterior part of the mesopleura more 

 lemon yellow; upper concealed part of occiput and pronotum, most 

 of mesonotum, metanotum, propodeum, and dorsum-of abdomen 

 brownish black, the mesoscutum fading into gamboge yellow on the 

 sides next to the tegulse, and margins of the scutellum and part of 

 metanotum brownish yellow; collar of pronotum and tegulae yellow- 

 ish white, the former with a black dot on each corner, the latter with 

 the posterior margin blackish brown. Antennal scape and pedicel 

 yellowish brown, marked with darker brown as in the female ; flagel- 

 luin brown, fading into yellowish on the last two funicle joints and 

 at apex of club. Legs and wings as in the female. 



Described from five females, three males reared from Ceroplastes 

 sp., Fort Myers, Florida, July 23 'to August 1, 1907 (E. A. Back), 



