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(4) APHELINUS DIASPIDIS How. 
Apiielinus diaspidis How. Annual Report U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1880, 
p. 355. 
This species was first reared from Diaspis rosce, received in 1880 from 
Fort Eeed, Fla. Later, specimens were received, reared from the same 
species of scale, from Santa Barbara, Cal. Specimens were received 
from Mr. Coquillett in 1892, which were found upon leaves infested 
with Aspidiotus aurantii received from Santa Ana, Cal., in July and 
August. Some specimens were observed by Mr. Coqnillett in the act 
of ovipositing in the scales. 
Fig. 9.— Aphelinus diaspidis How. ; greatly enlarged (original). 
This species is larger than either of those previously described, and 
is bright yellow in color. It is probably the '* golden Chalcid," referred 
to by Mr. Craw in his article in the California Fruit Grower of Febru- 
ary 28, 1891. 
(5) SIGNIPHORA OCCIDENT ALIS n. sp. 
In his work on Orange Insects published at Jacksonville, Fla,, in 
1880, Mr. W. H. Ash mead erected the genus Signiphora to contain a 
species which he called S.flavopalliata and of which he had reared two 
specimens from Aspidiotus citricola Pack., the Purple Scale of the 
Orange. Since Mr. Ashmead's volume is now very rare, we reprint his 
generic characterization : 
Signiphora Ashmead. 
Form, robust, polished, or shining; head wider than thorax, ocelli 3, triangularly- 
arranged; labial palpi 3-jointed; antenna? inserted in front between the eyes, 
rather close together, 3-jointed; first joint or scape long; second small and round; 
third large and fusiform; thorax broad, not quite as long as abdomen; legs seta- 
ceous, with five-jointed tarsi, first joint longest; hind tibia in place of the usual 
spine furnished with an anomalous five-lobed appendage, in this respect differing 
