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ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF COCCOPHAGUS. 
Females. 
Wings hyaline. 
General color dark honey-yellow ochraceus 
General color black. 
Hind border of mesoscutum with a band of yellow; sctitelluin entirely 
black scutatus 
Hind border of scutum black; scutellum more or less yellow. 
Head rather coarsely punctulate; apical two-fifths of scutellum yellow, 
except for black spot at tip lunulatus 
Head not coarsely punctulate. 
Scutellum with a narrow but complete marginal yellow band. 
califomicus 
Scutellum with apical half yellow; tegulre black. 
Punctures of scutum arranged in longitudinal rows; front and 
middle tibiae yellow lecanii 
Not so arrauged ; all tibia- dark cognatus 
Scutellum yellow only at tip ; all tibiae brown, yellow at either end; 
tegulaj black fraternus 
Nearly all of scutellum and postscutellum yellow; teguhe brown. 
jlavoscutellum 
Scutellum black; face yellow; punctation of mesonotum nearly obsolete 
jiavifrons 
Body entirely black ; mesonotum with sparse round punctures, a regular row 
around hind border of scutum. immaculatus 
Wings dusky ; body uniformly purplish black purpurem 
Males. 
Entire body black. 
A regular row of round punctures bordering hind edge of mesonotum. immaculatus 
Mesoscutum with sparse punctures, but without such a regular row. 
Teguhe brown; all tibia' and tarsi yellow; hind tibia- occasionally with 
dusky patch near base flavoscutellum, lecanii 
Teguhe black ; all tibia 1 dark brown in middle, whitish at either end. fraternus 
Mesoscutellum tipped with yellow. 
General color, brown; mesoscutum irregularly but sparsely punctate., .coguatus 
General color, black ; punctation nearly obsolete Jiavifrons 
Scutellum black; mesoscutum with terminal yellow bands scutatus 
General color honey-yellow ochraceus 
Coccophagus lecanii (Fitch.) 
Platggaster lecanii Fitch. Fifth Report Insects of New York (1858), p. 25. 
Coccophagus lecanii E. A. Smith. Amer. Nat., 1878, p. 661; Seventh Rep. State 
Entomologist Illinois, 1878, p. 130. 
Coccophagus lecanii (Fitch) Howard. Report Entomologist, Annual Report U. S. 
Dept. Agr., 1880, pp. 357-358; Howard, Report on the Parasitic Hymenoptera, 
Island St. Vincent, Journ. Linmean Soc, Lond., vol. xxv, 1894, p. 97. 
Coccophagus ater Howard. Report Entomologist, Annual Report U. S. Dept. 
Agr., 1880, p. 359. 
Female. — Length, 1 mm.; wing expanse, 2.25 mm.; greatest width 
tore-wings, 0.-42 mm. Antenna as long as the thorax ; head, pronotnin, 
and mesoscntum finely and sparsely punctured and furnished with 
short bristles, punctures of mesoscutum arranged in longitudinal rows. 
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