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3. Aphanogmus salicicola, n. sp. 



$. — Length 1.5 mm. Black shining, but with head and thorax 

 microscopically punctate. Thorax strongly compressed laterally, not 

 more than one-half as wide as the large transverse head. Face polished ; 

 antennae clavate, with scape and flagellum piceous, outer joints of club 

 black ; first joint of flagellum as long as pedicel ; second shorter; three to 

 five small, transverse ; six and seven enlarged, subquadrate ; terminal 

 joint stout, longer than the two preceding, and rounded at apex. Legs 

 piceous, with the tarsi pale. Mesothorax with hardly perceptible im- 

 pressed line ; pleura polished ; scutellum elongate and constricted at 

 base, tip slightly projecting ; tegulse black ; wings faintly yellowish, 

 costa brownish, stigmal vein yellow, almost twice as long as marginal, 

 oblique, slightly curved at outer end. Abdomen short. 



c^ . — Antennae about as long as body, pedicel short and stout, first 

 joint of flagellum twice as long, second slightly shorter than first, joints 

 three to eight about one-half shorter and gradually stouter, last joint 

 elongate oval as long as first ; basal joints subpedicellate with long hairs. 



Described from one female and two males bred from galls of a 

 Cecidomyiid, on willow. 



4. Teleas canadensis, n. sp. 



(^ . — Length 1.7 mm. Black. Front smooth ; orbits with fine stride, 

 cheeks and lower portion of face striated, clypeus transversely striated ; 

 a finely punctured band behind the ocelli, occiput smoother, margined ; 

 mandibles stout, rufous. Antennae about as long as the body, moderately 

 stout and finely pubescent ; scape reaching to ocelli, pedicel scarcely 

 longer than thick, first joint of flagellum more than one-half as long as 

 scape, second slightly shorter, remaining joints subequal, about one-half 

 as long as first. Mesonotum at sides and base longitudinally striated, 

 smoother medially, with some large scattered punctures, suture at base 

 of scutellum crenate, scutellum rugosely sculptured, spine short and 

 horizontal ; tegulae piceous, wings subfuscous, legs piceous, femora and 

 coxte darker, trochanters, knees, and tibiae rufous ; pleura striated and 

 rugosely sculptured, the mesopleura smoother centrally. Abdomen 

 short, first and second segments striate, third finely aciculated basally, 

 irregularly longitudinally punctured toward apex. 



One male taken at Hull, Que., 26th August, 1S94. 



