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Prospalta aurantii (Howard) (fig. 13). 
Coccophagus aurantii Howard. Insect Life, vol. VI, p. 231, 1894. 
Female. — Length, 0.7 mm.; expanse, 1.16 mm.; greatest width of 
fore-wing, 0.18 mm. Joint 1 of funicle shorter and narrower than 
pedicel and than joint 2, which is subequal to pedicel in length and 
width, joint 3 shorter than joint 2. Surface of thorax smooth. Gen- 
eral color, light brownish yellow; occipital line, margin of pronotum 
and a median stripe on mesoscutum, scapula), outer edge of metano- 
tum, abdomen, especially lateral margin, darker; antennas and legs light 
fuscous; eyes black, ocelli red; wings hyaline, veins slightly dusky. 
Fore-wings with disk densely, finely, and uniformly ciliate, costal margin 
with very short marginal cilia beginning at stigma, growing gradually 
longer at tip of wing and on lower outer margin becoming half the 
width of wing; broadest portion of wing beyond stigma; hind-wings 
as with preceding species. 
Described from two female specimens reared May 9, 1887, by I). W. 
Coquillettfrom Asp idiot us aurantii, var. ritrinus, from San Gabriel. Cal. 
Fig. 13.— Prospalta aurantii (Howard)— greatly enlarged (from Insect Life). 
Specimens of this species occur in the collection of the Department 
of Agriculture, reared from the following species of Coccidfle: Aspidio- 
tus ancylus Putn. var., on linden, District of Columbia; Mytilaspis cit- 
ricola Pack, on orange, Florida ; Aspidiotus pint Comst. on Pinus rigida, 
Ithaca, N. Y.; Mytilaspis albus, var. concolor Ckll., Cockerell, Las 
Cruces, N. Mex.; Mytilaspis eucalypti Crawford MS., Adelaide, South 
Australia, October 5. 
Mr. W. G. Johnson has also sent me from the collection of the Illinois 
State Laboratory of Natural History at Champaign, 111., a large series 
of this species reared from a species of Ghionaspis on an undetermined 
food-plant (probably introduced) growing on the university campus. 
Professor Berlese has also sent me specimens of this species reared in 
Italy from Aspidiotus ederce and from Leucaspis pinifolim on Pinus 
canariensis. 
The figure of this insect in Insect Life (reproduced above) is not 
coloration al. 
