No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 505 



Listed as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan soft spale 

 (Coccus hesperidum) , also bred from Eulecanium cerasifex and 

 E. Hetcheri. 



°E. montinus Packard. Scudder, Butterflies of New England, 

 Vol. iii, PL 89, Fig. 4. 



Female: length 2 mm.; mostly metallic green above, dull 

 yellow at sides and beneath ; head dull yellow, scape testaceous, 

 pedicel and first four joints of funicle yellowish brown with dark 

 hairs, fifth and sixth joints of funicle white with white hairs, 

 club black with black hairs; pronotum, tegulae and legs yellow, 

 except hind femora, which are somewhat dusky above; front 

 wings cloudy, with a single clear band extending across the wing 

 from just beyond the stigma to the posterior border, curving 

 slightly outward, an oblique hairless line also extending from the 

 stigma across toward the base of the wing, the course of one of 

 the spurious veins extending from the hairless line to the hyaline 

 band ; abdomen with its tip dull yellow. 



°E. bucculatricis Howard. Lintner, First N. Y. Rept., 1882, 



Fig. 43. 



Female : length i .2 mm. ; mostly black, with a slight luster ; 

 antennae, except scape, yellowish brown with gray hairs ; wings 

 clear; mid legs with their trochanters and femoro-tibial articu- 

 lations, a medial band and distal end on tibiae, and the spurs of 

 the latter, whitish, front and hind legs colored the same except 

 the medial tibial band, all tarsi whitish, often with a yellowish 

 tinge; abdomen smooth, ovipositor slightly exserted. 



Bred from Bucculatrix pomifoUella, 

 °E. anasse Ashmead. 



Female: length 1.25 mm.; head blue-black, cheeks decidedly 

 blue, antennae mostly pale brown, scape yellowish at base ; thorax 

 blue-black, except the tip of the scutel, which is cupreous, and 

 the pleurae, which are decidedly blue ; femora with a large bluish 

 blotch in the middle, tarsi yellowish; abdomen cupreous. 



Recorded as an American parasite of the cosmopolitan squash 

 bug (Anasa tristis). 



°E. (Aphidencyrtus) aphidiphagus Ashmead. 



Female: body mostly blue-black; length 1.5 mm.; face and 

 mouth-parts blue, ocellar region greenish, antennae brown; hind 



