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orm was taken in August 1907 at North Adams, Mass., by Owen 
3ryant. 
Male. Length 1.5; mm. Antennae one-fifth longer than the body, 
hickly haired, light brown; 14 segments, the fifth binodose, slightly 
rinodose, with stems two and one-half times their diameters; terminal 
egment having the basal stem with a length five times its diameter, 
he distal enlargement cylindric, with a length three times its diam- 
‘ter and bearing an irregular, fingerlike process apically. Palpi 
uadriarticulate (Fig. 65); face pale yellowish. Mesonotum dark 
yrown, the posterior median area and submedian lines yellowish, 
he last sparsely setose. Scutellum pale reddish yellow, thickly 
tose apically, postscutellum pale yellowish. Abdomen yellowish 
xrown, rather thickly setose; pleurae yellowish transparent. Wings 
1yaline, costa light brown; halteres pale yellowish, transparent. 
gs a pale brown; claws rather stout, strongly curved, the anterior 
inindentate, the pulvilli about half as long as the claws. Genitalia; 
yasal clasp segment broad, with a slender spinose process apically; 
erminal clasp segment long, stout; dorsal plate broad, deeply and 
riangularly incised, the lobes narrowly rounded; ventral plate slender, 
sroadly emarginate, the lobes short, broadly rounded. Harpes 
short, heavily chitinized, greatly convoluted. Type Cecid. 271. 
See plate 11, fig. 1) 

Lobodiplosis coccidarum [elt 
191t Felt, E. P. Can. Ent., 43:195-96 
1914. —————— _ Econom. Ent. Jour., 7:458 
This remarkably interesting species was reared by W. H. Patterson, 
3t Vincent, W. I., in February 1911 from larvae preying on the 
ss9s of Dactylopius citri. A study of other forms having 
similar habits and an examination of the original description of 
Diplosis coccidarum CkIl. convinces us that the earliet 
jescribed species is very different from the one under consideration. 
This latter is tentatively referred to the genus Lobodiplosis because 
of the rudimentary lobe on the basal clasp segment, though the 
strongly reduced terminal clasp segment and the lack of chitinization 
in the harpes, so conspicuous in typical species of the genus, indicates 
a different line of development. 
Lobodiplosis cincta n. sp. 
This rather striking species was taken at Newport, N. Y., July 
23, 1906 and is tentatively placed here. 
Female. Length 1.5; mm. Antennae as long as the body, sparsely 
haired, yellowish brown; 15 segments, the fifth with a stem about 
three-fourths the length of the cylindric basal enlargement, which 
