DORNECnCDT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST r , . ZY. [Bull. 



Baeocharis Mar r 



"B. marlattii Ashmead. 



Ferine and male: length c _ ; mm.; thorax nei ta 

 broad as long, mostly shining black, with some aeneous tinge- 

 ings in certain lights. Male: head much broader than thorax. 

 Female: head much thicker antero-pos: - ioriy than in the male; 



s converging in front, antennae inserted just above the mouth, 

 apparently only 6-jointed, but really io-jointed, joints of the club 



ed together, scape not reaching much beyond 



idle of face and lying in a facial groove, pedicel longer 

 wide, third joint longer than wide : scutel convex : legs mostly 

 brown: k m : ; tips : and all of tarsi honey-yellow; abdo- 



men sessile, broadly oval, with the first segment km 



~r; i :?. ::: :-. pro :-:-.'.: : :?o :. 7'. ~ 



Corr.ys F:;-r: : 



C. bicolor Howard. U. S. Dep: Agric Repf Entomolc.: 

 1880, 188 1. p. 362. PL 23. Fig 



Female and male: length 1.75 mm.; mostly yellow -brer 

 cheeks below eyes blackish, palpi black, scape silvery bene;, 

 black above, fiagel black, with many short black hair- ax 



shining black, rest of thorax with black hairs, scutellar ruft th: 

 black, and apparent', arising in two longitudinal, closely ar 

 mated rows; anterior femora white beneath fus co u s above, espe- 

 cially toward knee, their tibiae and tarsi dark brown ; mid femora 



:e beneath, fuscous above, their tibiae tarsi and tibial 

 spars brownish yellow: posterior legs with the femora and ri 

 dark brown, nearly black, base of first tarsal joint black, r 

 : distal two-thir b A ongs dusl- aline wee. 



nd at the end of the marginal vein : at the junction of 

 n with the costa a broad, clear, hairless band ex- 

 tends back across the wine Eringe of dark hairs upon the sub- 

 :al makes an abrupt downward bend at a little over one-half 



ength and becomes the proximal border of the hairless space 

 for a little over one-half the wing width ; abdomen shining black, 

 and with sparse long black hairs. 



Parasitic upon Ltcanium kesperidum on ivy Listed as an 

 American parasite of a cosmopolitan insect 



