ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



[Jan., '12 



Goniodes descrepans Kellogg and Paine. 



One specimen from Lagopus lagopus, and two from Tringa 

 ptilocnemis, Norton Sound. 



Goniodes corpulentus sp. nov. (Figs. 1 and 2). 

 Four males, five females and one young, taken on Canachites 

 canadensis, and two females and a young (undoubtedly strag-- 

 glers) from Tringa maculata. Both hosts were shot on Nor- 

 ton Sound. This species is close to damicornis. 



FIG. i. Goniodes corpulentus n. sp. , 

 female, from Canachiles cana- 

 densis. 



FIG. 2. Goniodes corpulentus, n. sp., 

 antenna of male above, of fe- 

 male below. 



Description of the male. Body, length 2 mm. ; width .97 mm. ; gold- 

 en brown, with darker markings ; short robust body. Head, length 

 .64 mm. ; width .64 mm. ; front flatly convex, with a rather broad color- 

 less border, and with eight very fine hairs on margin and a longer 

 hair in front of each antenna; temporal region distinctly angulatc, 

 slightly expanded, the angle with one very long hair and a shorter 

 one; occipital margin shallowly concave; occipital band strongly sinu- 

 ous; antennal bands straight, diverging to angle of front; antenna] 



