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



to eleventh joints combined, somewhat pointed at apex, mostly 

 dark brown, nearly black; antennae rather light brown, club 

 darker; all legs dark brown, lighter at joints, tarsi lighter; base 

 of abdomen yellowish ; wing veins dusky. 



This is listed as a parasite of the oyster-shell scale, Lepido- 

 saphes ulmi (Mytilaspis pomorum), 



Camptotera Foerster. 

 °C. clavata Provancher. 



Female : length 2 mm. ; mostly black, highly polished ; antennae 

 and legs orange-yellow ; antennae inserted upon a frontal ledge. 



Leimacis Foerster. 

 Limacis Dalla Torre. 

 °L. aspidioticola Ashmead. 



Head and thorax light reddish; head nearly as wide as the 

 thorax, apical joint of antennae club-shaped ; a dark spot on 

 thorax at base of each wing; wings hyaline, both fore and hind 

 wings ciliated from end of costal vein, no other visible veins, a 

 small dark reddish spot on fore wings at tip of costal vein; end 

 of abdomen darker brown than the thorax, two oblong brown 

 spots on each side of the abdomen; legs rufo-stramineous ; ovi- 

 positor scarcely exserted. 



Parasitic upon Glover's scale, Lepidosaphes (Mytilaspis) 

 gloveri. The larvae upon hatching feed upon the eggs of the 

 host. 



Alaptus Haliday. 

 °A. aleurodis Forbes. 



Female : length about i mm. ; mostly black and shining ; an- 

 tennae as long as the body, scape arcuate, reaching to the top of 

 the head, and about as long as the three succeeding joints com- 

 bined, nearly smooth, as is also the second joint, remaining joints 

 densely hairy, club not jointed, as long as the three preceding 

 joints combined, first joint obconic, second about the same length 

 as the first but narrower ; abdomen alutaceous ; head and thorax 

 punctate ; antennae yellow ; legs mostly yellow, femora and tibiae of 

 the mid and hind legs black, their tarsi yellow. 



Bred from Aleurodes aceris. 



