102 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Gonatocerus partifuscipennis, n. sp. 



Female — Length 0.85 mm. 



Black, opaque, the first two pairs of knees and the four proximal 

 tarsal joints, reddish l)ro\vn; fore wings with the distal third 

 distinctly' infuscated, the \enation dark. Thorax scaly, the 

 parapsidal furrows shallow, the scutellum simple, the propodeum 

 with a \er>- widely separated pair of median carina'. Fore libiic 

 with about fi\e small teeth dorsad, the last near apex. Funicles 

 1-4 subequal, each a half longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel, 

 narrower than the others; 5 and 7 longest, each twice longer than 

 wide; and 8 sul)ec|ual, somewhat longer than 4. Scape com- 

 pressed. Marginal fringes of the fore wing not long, about a fifth 

 of the greatest wing width, the discal cilia \ery fine Strigil present. 

 Caudal wings acuminate, bearing a pair of discal cilia along the 

 caudal margin and about three long lines cephalo-distad, the 

 caudal marginal cilia longer than the marginal cilia of the fore 

 wing. Caudal tibial spur single. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in open forest, 

 Glenndale, Maryland, October 11, 1915. 



Type — Catalogue No 19916, U.S.N.M., the aiwve specimen on 

 a slide. 



Phitnodiscus partifuscipennis, n. sp. 



Head lenticular, the distinct scrobes short, weakly joined abo\ e. 

 Marginal vein thrice longer than wide, subequal to the postmarginal,. 

 the curved stigmal longer. Similar to ceneus Dalman (compared 

 with German specimens inthcU.S.N.M.),butthe fore wing, though 

 similarly infuscated, bears also a very large h\ aline space between 

 near base (where the wing is longitudinally infuscated caudad) 

 and two-thirds the way out to the hairless line; otherwise as in 

 ceneus. Scutum punctate, the punctures sparser on the scutellum. 



The male has the wings hyaline, the antennS^ yellowish, the 

 scape and pedicel dorsad purplish; funicle 1 five times longer than 

 wide, longest. Pedicel short, club not seen, otherwise like the 

 female except tips of tibia? (most of first tibiae) yellowish. The 

 mandibles in both species are obtusely, equally tiidentate. 



From one male, two females labelled "Italy, State Insectary, 

 California. Ex. Saissetia hemisphcerica." 



Types — Catalogue No. 19917, U.S.N.M., a pair on tags and 



