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Described from three males and one female, reared July, 1887, at Ala- 
meda, Cal.,by A. Koebele, from Lecanium on Adenostema fascieulatum. 
This species interferes with a suggested generalization made by the 
writer in a paper entitled " The hairy eyes in Hymenoptera r (Proc. 
Entom. Soc. Wash., vol. I, p. 195) to the effect that the hairy eyes in the 
subfamily Aphelininae are associated with a black color. This holds 
with the typical genus Aphelinus, in which all the yellow species have 
naked eyes, the two black species {A. mail and A. flaviceps) having 
hairy eyes. Having a yellow species of CoccopluKju*. we should expect 
naked eyes; but here hairiness of the eyes seems to be a generic 
character. 
Genus PROSPALTA Howard. 
Prospalta Howard. Insect Life, vol. vn, p. 6, 1894. 
Fig. 12.— Prospalta murtfehltii Howard— greatly enlarged (from Insect Life). 
Female. — Anterior wings with no oblique transverse hairless line 
below stigma. Antennae 8-jointed; club 3 jointed; all joints subequal 
in length ; first joint of club widest. Head transverse ; ocelli at corners 
of an oblique-angled triangle. Eyes naked. Thorax wider than head; 
mesoscutar parapsides club-shaped, broadening suddenly on distal 
side: axillae extending anteriorly to swelling of parapsides; metascu- 
tellum broad and short ; legs rather stout; all tarsi short; first joint 
of hind tarsi only as long as second; first joint of middle and front 
tarsi longer than second. Ovipositor slightly extruded. Wings broad; 
submarginal vein reaching nearly to middle of wing; marginal much 
shorter than submarginal ; stigmal very short, its anterior border nearly 
parallel with costa, its posterior border extending into disk of wing at 
an angle of 45° with costa ; outer margin of fore-wing with rather short 
cilia; hind margin of hind-wings with somewhat longer cilia. First 
abdominal joint much the longest; abdomen as a whole equaling thorax 
in length ; whole body tapering gradually from tegulae to tip of abdomen. 
