NO. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 447 



body mostly shining black; scape and pedicel brown, rest of 

 antennae black; all tarsi entirely light honey-yellow, except the 

 apical joint, which is blackish, as are the veins of the wings. 

 Parasitic on scale insects of the genus Kermes. 



Anaphes Haliday. 

 A. (Anaphoidea) conotracheli Girault. 



Female: average length 0.55 mm.; differing from the male 

 chiefly as follows : first and second joints of antennae pale yellow ; 

 abdomen longer, cylindric-oval, glabrous, black, its anal segment 

 hairy ; ovipositor slightly exserted ; mouth area yellowish, the 

 mandibles, however, brown ; antennae pubescent, not as long as 

 the body, first joint curved and twice as long as the second, 

 more slender than the corresponding joint in the male, second 

 and third each globate, the latter abruptly smaller, fourth colum- 

 nar, fifth to eighth cylindric-oval, subequal, apical joint much 

 longer, larger, and ovate. 



Male : average length 0.48 mm. ; body black, shining ; legs 

 (except most of the middle of the femora, portions of the tibiae, 

 and tips of the tarsi, all of which are darker), apical two-thirds 

 of scape, and venation pale yellowish or stramineous; antennae 

 and legs with whitish pubescence; head wider than the thorax 

 and with sparse whitish hairs, minutely striate, ocelli inconspicu- 

 ous, mandibles yellowish brown, falcate, bidentate at tips ; thorax 

 convex, longer than the head and abdomen combined, irregularly 

 striate, dorsum of mesothorax with a deep round fovea on each 

 side near the insertion of the wings; abdomen subglobate, its 

 dorsum hispid ; venation of wings pale, indistinct ; antennae longer 

 than the body, funicle filiform, hirsute, first joint curved, convex, 

 subreniform, second globate, third to twelfth cylindrical, sub- 

 equal in length, becoming gradually longer toward the apex of 

 the funicle, third and fourth joints thicker than the following. 



Parasitic on the eggs of the plum curculio {Conotrachelus 

 nenuphar) . 



Berlin (W. E. B.). 



A. gracilis Howard. 



Female : length 0.7 mm. ; antennae as long as the head and 

 thorax combined, fourth to eighth joints gradually increasing 

 in length and thickness, apical joint or club as long as the eighth 



