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 



