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margin of thorax metallic green;, wings hyaline; legs mostly 

 honey-yellow, all femora brown except at tips, tibiae with a brown 

 blotch near their base, terminal tarsal joints dusky; abdomen 

 blue-black with bronzy reflections. 



Bred from Aphis brassicce. 

 °E. clisiocampae Ashmead. ^ 



Female: length 0.8 mm.; mostly aeneous or dark bronzy 

 green; antennae ii-jointed, pale brown; mesopleurae blue-black, 

 tip of scutel violaceous; wings hyaline; coxae, femora and tibiae 

 pale brown outwardly toward base, rest of legs light honey- 

 yellow; abdomen aeneous, its membranous attachment to the 

 thorax whitish or carneous. Male : legs mostly pale, their femora 

 and tibiae only slightly dusky; antennae paler brown. 



Bred from the eggs of Malacosoma disstria. 



SIGNIPHORID^. 

 Signiphora Ashmead. 

 °S. flavopalliata Ashmead. Orange Insects, 1880, PI. ii. Figs. 

 2, 3, 6, 8, 12, 13. 



Face round, ocelli equidistant or nearly so, antennae inserted 

 at the border of the clypeus, 6- jointed, scape reaching nearly to 

 the top of the head when lying in apposition with the same, pedi- 

 cel nearly as long as the scape, first three joints of the funicle 

 very small, club apparently without sutures, mandibles bidentate, 

 labial palpi rudimentary, maxillary palpi 3- jointed; anterior wings 

 with the submarginal and marginal veins subequal in length, 

 stigmal vein thinner than the marginal and curved, marginal and 

 stigmal veins with some stiff bristles, disk of wing not ciliate, 

 margin of wing ciliate from just beyond the stigmal vein around 

 to a point opposite the stigmal vein, hind wings with the margin 

 ciliate from beyond the marginal vein around nearly to the hind 

 base; mid tibiae with a number of stout bristles, apical spur 

 as long as the first tarsal joint and with five or six bristles at 

 regular intervals on the inner edge ; front and hind legs unarmed ; 

 abdomen broadly sessile, rounded at tip, apical spiracles facing 

 ventrally, ovipositor somewhat exserted. Male: penis cleft at 

 tip. 



Listed as an American parasite of the purple scale (Lepido- 

 saphes beckii). 



