490 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



3. Scutel not pointed at base, but normal 4 



Scutel pointed at base. Length 0.55 mm abnormis 



4. Anterior wings with only a faint cloud beneath stigma. 



Length 0.78 mm diaspidis 



Anterior wings with a distinct cloud occupying all of the 

 central portion, and accentuated below stigma and at its 

 proximal border. Length 0.6 mm fuscipennis 



A. mali Haldeman. 



Parasitic on the woolly apple aphis (Schizoneura lanigera), 

 Glyphina eragrostidis, Aphis brassicce, A. monardce, Pemphigus 

 fraxinif olii, Siphonophora rosce. 



A mytilaspidis Le Baron. U. S. Dept. Agric, Rept. Ento- 

 mologist, 1880, PI. 23, Fig. 1. 



Listed as an American parasite of Diaspis carueli, Lepido- 

 saphes ulmi and Chionaspis pinifolii. 



A. abnormis Howard. 



Probably an aberration of the preceding species. Bred from 

 Lepidosaphes ulmi. 



A. diaspidis Howard. -U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull. 1, Technical 

 Series, Fig. 7. 



Listed as an American parasite of Diaspis rosce, Lepidosaphes 

 on an orchid, and an undetermined Sycaste from Japan. 



A. fuscipennis Howard. 



Reared from the San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus), 

 Chionaspis euonymi, Lepidosaphes gloveri, L. ulmi, and from 

 a species of Aspidiotus on Acacia longifolia. 



Eretmocerus Haldeman. 

 E. corni Haldeman. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull. 1, Technical 

 Series, Fig. 2 (antennae). 



Eyes hairy, antennal club of female oar-shaped. 

 Bred from Aleyrodes corni. 



Ablerus Howard. 

 A. clisiocampafc Ashmead. Centrodora clisiocampce Ash- 

 mead. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bull. 1, Technical Series, Fig. 14. 



Length 0.7 mm.; exserted portion of ovipositor 0.18 mm. 

 long ; mostly black, and somewhat metallic ; thorax above with a 

 greenish luster, abdomen appearing bluish ; antennae mostly 



