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with two large brown patches, one each side of middle line; scapulae each with a 
brown patch: iuetanotuni brownish; base of abdomen brown: tip of abdomen also 
brown: antenna brown with the exception of joints 2 and 3 of the follicle, which 
are whitish; all cox* and femora light honey yellow, except that hind femora are 
du>ky at base: front tibiae with a dusky ring near middle; first and second tarsal 
joints of fore legs dusky ; middle and hind tibiae each with two dusky bands; first 
tarsal joint of middle and hind legs dusky : wings hyaline with a fuscous basal patch 
and a triangular median fuscous patch with its apex at stigmal vein and its base 
reaching somewhat less than half of outer hind margin; entire disk of wing densely, 
finely, and uniformly ciliate. 
Described from five balsam-mounted female specimens reared by Miss 
Mary E. Mnrtfeldt, at Kirkwood. Mo., from Aspidiotus uvw. Eeceived 
November 4. 1888. 
To this genus may also be referred Coecophagus entrant! i How. 
described in Insect Life (vol vi, p. 231). 
Ablerus * gen. nor. 
Female. — Fore-wings with no transverse, hairy streak below stigma. Antenna; 
apparently only 7-jointed, club appearing unjointed: antennae simple, slightly cla- 
vate: scape slender; pedicel as long as, or slightly longer, than funicle joint 1; funi- 
cle joints 1, 2, and 4 subequal in length, 3 rather shorter: club as long as three last 
Fig. 3.— Ablerus clisiocampce (Ashrn.) : female, greatly enlarged (original). 
funicle joints together, furnished with two minute papillar projections at tip: mesos- 
cutar parapsides clavate, but not broadening suddenly into a club: meSoscutellum 
transverse: abdomen semi-ovate; ovipositor extruded for more than half the length 
of abdomen. Wings short, narrow; marginal vein nearly as long as snbmarginal ; 
stigmal long, slender, one-third length of marginal, squarely truncate at tip, extend- 
ing at a very slight angle into disk of wing: marginal vein with three principal 
bristles, snbmarginal with one; cilia of border of wings as with Prospalta : hind 
border of fore-wings with a Longitudinal hairless streak and a slight fold extending 
from base of wing nearly to middle; thickening of anal margin opposite tip ofmar- 
* , 'A3?rjpoc f nom. prop. 
