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lowish tinge on the ventral sides of joints 5 and 6. The abdomen is verj sh :" and 
its dorsnm is black with an orange margin in which the black spiracles •. dis- 
tinctly, each furnished with a few long black hairs. The rent, 
with the tibial spots not so strongly marked as in the fema 
Described from 2 6* 7 s and 2 9 "s, bred .May 7. L883, from a Lecanium 
on the water-oak ((>. aquatica) collected at Bluffton, S. C. by Dr. J. H. 
Mellicharap. The same Lecanium harbored Chiloneunts albicamu 
Howard, and occurs on Quercus laurifolia at Mobile. AJa., where it is 
parasited by Comysfusca Howard. 
This species seems to be closely related to Aphycus punctipes (Dalm.), 
though the descriptions of the latter are too meager to form a definite 
idea of it. Certainly the colored figure by Westwood m Steph 
Illustrations of British Entomology (Supplement, Plate XXVI, Pig 
cannot be at all correct as to coloration. 
Mr. Ashmead's Coccophagus annulipes should also be placed in this 
genus, and will prove closely related to this species, although 1 have 
as yet seen but one mutilated specimen. 
Two females of what is probably only a variety of this species, having 
only the first funicie joint brown, are contained in Dr. Riley's collection, 
and are said to be parasitic on Attelabus MpuMulatus. With our knowl- 
edge of the habits of the genus we can say with almost perfect 
tainty that these females were not parasitic upon the Attelabus bat upon 
some unnoticed Lecanium attached to the leaves of which the case of 
the beetle larva was made. [C. V. R. Coll. J 
Genus Bothkiothokax Batzebnrg. 
/ i 'die. — The body is rather broad and flattened. The antenna arise not far from 
the holder of the month ; the scape is quite long and not flattened ; the pedicel is as 
long as or longer than the first funicie joint ; this last is as long as or longer than thick 
the clnb is shorter than the funicie or (with B. paradoxus) twice as long. The face 
is delicately impressed : vertex and clypene are very broad, and the ocelli form a very 
obtuse-angled triangle. The thin (antero-posteriorly) broad (laterally) head is very 
deeply punctured, as are also niesonotum and scutellum; in the center of each punc- 
ture is a little papilla, from which springs a delicate little hair; besides this th 
a leather-like sculpture. The mesonotum and scutellum are rather strongly trans- 
versely arched, and the lateral borders of the latter are quite sharp. The ovip< 
is not at all, or very slightly, extended. The marginal vein o\ the hyaline wings is 
very short or is lacking; the stigma! is long and the postmarginal is short, or very 
short. 
Male. — Very BimilaT to the female and only distinguished by the antenna and by 
the sparser punctuation of the head. The pedicel is short, somewhat longer than 
thick; the funicie quite extended, and the joint s small and strongly arched beneath. 
■o that the funicie appears somewhat toothed above; most of the joints hav< 
halt whorls of long hair; the club is almost as long as the two last funicie joints to- 
ilet her. 
