No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 503 



yellowish with two black bands, but white at the proximal end, all 

 tarsi yellowish white with the apical joint darker; veins of the 

 wings dark brown, postmarginal longer than marginal and about 

 as long as the stigmal ; abdomen greenish above, bluish beneath. 



Bred from Lecanium Hetcheri, L. rohiniarum, and other spe- 

 cies of Lecanium. 



Psilophrys Mayr. 

 °P. pallipes Ashmead. 



Female : length i .5 mm. ; head smooth ; thorax golden green, 

 finely sculptured, with the disk of the scutel impressed anteriorly, 

 metapleurae distinctly blue; all legs uniformly pale testaceous in 

 color, except a blotch on the posterior femora. 



Bred from Gelechia gallcesolidaginis. 



Litomastix Thomson. 



°L. truncatella Dalman. U. S. Dept. Agric, Rept. Entomolo- 

 gist, 1883, PL xi, Fig. 6. 



Mostly obscure greenish aeneous ; head impunctate, front im- 

 pressed, more shining, mouth yellowish, antennae entirely black, 

 flagel scarcely twice as long as the scape, apex of antennae conico- 

 acuminate; thorax above cyaneous, sericeous, scutel obscure 

 greenish aeneous, thorax beneath obscure aeneous ; legs black or 

 obscure blackish aeneous, knees more or less testaceous, tarsi 

 fuscous; wings hyaline, veins fuscous; abdomen mostly black, 

 somewhat shining, and partly cyaneous. 



Recorded as a parasite of the cabbage looper (Autographa 

 brassiccu). 



Leptomastix Foerster. 



°L. dactylopii Howard. 



Female: length 1.51 mm.; mostly honey-yellow, with a light 

 reddish tinge on the mesonotum; occiput just behind the eyes, 

 and the antennae except for a slight yellow streak beneath, black ; 

 posterior margin of pronotum and dorsal surface of posterior 

 femora more or less dusky; abdomen above dusky. Male: 

 length 0.95 mm. ; apparently darker than the female ; the amount 

 of black on dorsum of thorax variable; mesonotum yellow, 

 scapulae often very dark, scutel often with a median dark stripe, 

 hind tibiae and tarsi dark. 



Bred from Dactylopius destructor. 



