142 ASHMEAD 



Family FORMICID^). 

 Genus Formica Linne*. 



FORMICA NEORUFIBARBIS Emery. 



Formica neorufibarbis EMERY, Zool. Jahrb., xn, p. 660, 1899. PERGANDE, 

 Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., n, p. 519, 5, 1900. 



From Kodiak, Metlakatla and Sitka. 



Genus Lasius Fabricius. 



LASIUS NIGER SITKENSIS Pergande. 



Lasius nigervar. sitkensis PERGANDE, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., II, p. 519, , 

 1900. 



Type. Cat. No. 5277, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Sitka. 



Superfamily V. PROCTOTRYPOIDEA Ashmead. 

 Family PROCTOTRYPHXE. 

 Genus Proctotypes Latreille. 



PROCTOTRYPES NIGRIPES sp. nov. 



Male. Length 4 mm. Polished black ; legs brown-black, with the 

 tarsi and articulations rufo-piceous ; tegulae pale honey-yellow. Wings 

 hyaline, without any internal veins, the costal veins and the stigma 

 brown. Mandibles rufous. Palpi dark brown. Antenna? entirely 

 black, a little longer than the head and thorax united and clothed with 

 a short, moderately dense whitish pubescence, the joints of the 

 flagellum elongate, the first and last joints about equal and longer than 

 the intermediate joints, the first joint being a little longer and thicker 

 than the second, about five times as long as thick, the second and fol- 

 lowing joints gradually shortening to the penultimate. 



The head is transverse about as wide as the thorax between the 

 tegulae, the ocelli pale. The thorax is smooth, impunctate, except the 

 metathorax which is rugulose, with an abbreviated median carina and 

 nearly twice as long as high. The petiole of the abdomen is a little 

 longer than wide and striate, the rest of the abdomen, except at the 

 extreme base where it joins the petiole, is smooth, shining and im- 

 punctate, the extreme base with several striae. 



Type. Cat. No. 5517, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul 

 Island (Fur Seal Commission), one male. 



