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



transverse band below the stigma; abdomen black or blue-black, 

 brassy beneath, and with a few hairs along the sides. 



Male: very like the female, but the antennal joints are not 

 gradually widened toward the tip, the extreme tip of the club is 

 sometimes white or pale, the mesothorax is slightly depressed, 

 and the abdomen is more decidedly blue. 



This is on record as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan 

 Pseudococcus citri. Also bred from P, adonidum. 



Chiloneurus Westwood. 



°C. swezeyi Ashmead. 



Female: length 1.5 mm.; head brownish yellow above, temples 

 and cheeks pallid or whitish; thorax beneath pallid or whitish, 

 mesosternum with a black streak, mesonotum with silvery 

 pubescence, scutel bright rust-red, with a tuft of black bristles 

 at apex; front wings hyaline toward base, apical two-thirds 

 fuscous, and with a purplish iridescent spot at lower apical 

 corner ; abdomen, especially above, blackish or dark brown. 



Male : length 0.8-1 mm. ; color nearly as in female, except 

 that the thorax is more whitish at sides and beneath ; the scutel- 

 lar tuft sometimes absent; the head smaller, the legs yellowish, 

 the trochanters and bases of femora white, the mid femora and 

 tibiae, except a pale basal annulus, more of a brownish yellow, 

 the latter with blackish pubescence outwardly, the tarsi pale, the 

 wings clear. 



Probably a primary parasite on Ormenis. 

 °C. albicomis Howard. U. S. Dept. Agric, Rept. Entomolo- 

 gist, 1880, PI. 13, Fig. 4. 



Female: length 1.8 mm.; head bright ferruginous, pedicel of 

 antennae twice as long as wide, dark brown at base, scape dark 

 brown, apex of pedicel and succeeding joints except club snow- 

 white, club black, much flattened, oval, and as long as the four 

 preceding joints combined ; pronotum, mesonotum between parap- 

 sidal grooves, and scapulae, ferruginous; scutel blue-black, with 

 many fine silvery hairs that are close together ; metanotum black, 

 front legs blackish above, yellowish beneath, their tarsi yellowish 

 brown ; mid legs with their femora dark brown, but light toward 

 tips, their tibiae white, tibial spurs and tarsi yellowish ; hind legs 

 dark brown, but with their tarsi yellowish ; anterior wings with a 



