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in this genus, while the secondary sexual characters remain 

 unknown. That two species are represented by the material in 

 question is thus so nearly certain that I do not hesitate at all, 

 but forthwith describe the second American species of the 

 genus. 



Aphelinoidea plutella new species. 



Aphelirioidea s_emifuscipennis Girault, male, in Girault /. c. 



Female. Similar to the type species of the genus excepting as al- 

 ready pointed out in the place cited. The specimen before me differs 

 also in color, however, the whole of the thorax and head ochraceous 

 not blackish, the base of the abdomen yellowish suffused with orange. 

 Discal ciliation confined to the distal half of the fore wing and sepa- 

 rated from the apex of the venation by a clear path which is naked; 

 the fumation of the fore wing extends only to the end of the marginal 

 vein. The proximal joint of the club is less than a third of the length 

 of that segment. 



Habitat: United States of America Illinois (Centralia and 

 Urbana). 



Type: Accession No. 41,680, Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, one female in xylol-balsam 

 (mounted with the type female of semifitscipennis Girault). 



There are now known six species of Aphelinoidea, four of 

 them from Queensland, Australia, but as yet undescribed. 



2. ANTHEMILLA GIRAULT EQUALS PARALLELAPTERA KNOCK. 

 In the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington, Volume XIII, 1911, pp. 185-187, a new genus and spe- 

 cies of Mymaridae is described from North America under the 

 name Anthemiella rex Girault. This genus was thought to be 

 different from any Mymarid genus then known, but it was 

 recognized that it was closely allied with Anthemus Howard 

 from which it differs markedly in venation only. I have been 

 considerably surprised, therefore, in rinding later on that the 

 L'.enus had already been described by Enock for Parallclaptera 

 j^mis Enock (Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London for the year 1909, December, p. 454, pi. XIII, figs. 

 1-5). But Enock, in the original description of the genus 

 gives no characteristics of it and its position is unstated ; we 

 learn from the description, however, that the male antennae 



