Insects injurious to fruits . 412 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. 427, is furnished with two transparent wings, which, whenspread, measure rather less than one-eighth of an inch across. Its body is olive-^^^ ^^^- brown; the eyes are dark red. The four-wingedfly shown, much mag-nified, in Fig. 428,the natural size cfwhich is indicated bythe short lines on theleft of the figure, isa parasite on thismealy-bug, known asEncyrtufi inquisitorHoward. Its bodyis smooth, of a shining black, and the transparent wings arepartly obscured by dusky markings, as shown in the No. 264.—The Mealy-bug w
Insects injurious to fruits . 412 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. 427, is furnished with two transparent wings, which, whenspread, measure rather less than one-eighth of an inch across. Its body is olive-^^^ ^^^- brown; the eyes are dark red. The four-wingedfly shown, much mag-nified, in Fig. 428,the natural size cfwhich is indicated bythe short lines on theleft of the figure, isa parasite on thismealy-bug, known asEncyrtufi inquisitorHoward. Its bodyis smooth, of a shining black, and the transparent wings arepartly obscured by dusky markings, as shown in the No. 264.—The Mealy-bug with Long Threads. Dactylopius longifilis Comstock. In this species the adult female is nearly one-fifth of aninch long, of a light dull-yellow color, its body being cov-ered with a whitish powder. In Fig. 429 it is representedmagnified. The lateral appendages, which are seventeen innumber, are long, the posterior ones on each side being verylong, equalling, and sometimes exceeding, the entire lengthof the body. In the larval state the male and the femaleare very much alike, but as they approach maturity strikingdifferences appear. The female surrounds herself withcottony material, amid which the young cluster for sometime after birth. The male larva forms for itself a littlecottony sac or cocoon, in wiiich it changes to a pupa, fromwhich the winged insect is produced. This is shown, muchmagnified, in Fig. 430. The wings, which are transparent, INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. 413 measure, when spread, about one-tenth of an inch body is brown ; the
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