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joint, but much shorter than the pedicel, ring-joint and first funicle 

 joints combined ; pedicel cuneate, about the shortest joint, about one- 

 third the length of the first funicle joint; joint i of funicle the longest 

 joint of the flagellum, nearly as long as the scape, and twice the length 

 of joint 3 of funicle; funicle joint 2 over one-half the length of joint I 

 of funicle, and one-half longer than the following joint; funicle joint 

 3 shorter, oval, slightly longer than the two distal joints of the antennae; 

 club 3-jointed, not very distinct from the funicle, its basal joint widely- 

 separated and truncate cephalad and with somewhat pointed lateral 

 angles; its two distal joints closely united, unequal in size; joint I of 

 club slightly shorter than joint 3 of funicle, joint 2 of club slightly 

 shorter than joint I of club, ovate; the final joint small, about equal 

 to the pedicel. 



From two specimens. 



Described from three males and two females reared from the 

 larva? of Tischcria maUfolidla Clemens, Washington, D. C., 

 June 14-20, August 5 and 22 (Quaintance), and October 30, 

 1905, and Newark, Delaware, August 22, 1905 (C. P. Close), 

 on apple foliage, in connection with the Deciduous-fruit Insect 

 Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Type: No. 9640, United States National Museum, I , 2 9 . 



This species was pronounced new by Dr. William H. Ash- 

 mead, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., 

 to whom the writer acknowledges his indebtedness. 



THE editor of the NEWS went to southeastern Idaho, in the sage 

 brush desert, during July, with the intention of doing some collecting 

 there and in the Yellowstone Park, but had the misfortune to be taken 

 sick in the sage brush desert, the heat in the west being unusually great 

 during the past summer. Whether the illness was due to the local con- 

 ditions or to the physical condition of the individual he does not care to 

 discuss, but he can't help thinking of the following: 



Going west on the Union Pacific, through the southern portion of 

 Wyoming, the view is one of continuous sand and sage brush, a veritable 

 desert. It is told that Mark Twain was going through, one time, and 

 in the dining car his eye spied "Sage chicken" on the bill of fare. He 

 called the waiter and asked what that was. 



"It's chicken, sah, raised right through here, sah." 



"Can they fly?" asked the humorist. 



"Yes, sah, they can fly, sah." 



"Well, then, I don't want any. Anything that can fly and stays in this 

 country long enough to be killed can't be much good. None for me." 



