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Male: The same but the scape and pedicel still lighter; antenna? nearly 

 similar to those of male pullicrura but the flagellar joints lengthen slightly 

 distad instead of shortening, funiclar joints 3-6 subequal, each about a 

 sixth longer than either joint 1 or 2. 



From three specimens, similarly magnified. 



Described from three specimens of each sex mounted together 

 on a slide received for study from Prof. F. M. Webster through 

 the kindness of Dr. L. 0. Howard, the slide labelled "6655. 

 Mymarid parasites of Phytonomus (from shipment from Italy 

 by Fiske). Salt Lake City, April 8, 1911. T. H. Parkcs." 



Habitat: Europe, Italy (Portici); North America (imported) 

 -Utah (Salt Lake City and Murray). 



Host: Phytonomus posticus Gyll. 



Types: Cat. No. 15452, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C., the above specimens three males and three 

 females. 



My attention was drawn to the existence of this species by look- 

 ing over Bull. No. 112, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, where on page 35 it is stated that a Mymarid 

 egg-parasite, Anaphes species, was found in seven shipments of 

 the Phytonomus from Italy. On the preceding page (fig. 15) an 

 enlarged figure of the male and the female antenna is given. At 

 the time, the figure looked to me like Anaphes pratensis Foerster, 

 the only European Mymarid recorded from North America. I 

 was therefore anxious to receive specimens, and my application 

 to Professor Webster, the author of the bulletin mentioned, 

 resulted in the receipt of a slide bearing the six specimens of the 

 foregoing species of Anaphoidea. Thus, if the figure is correct, 

 there must be two distinct species of egg-parasites concerned. 

 Having a North American (Urbana, Illinois, May 7, 1911) speci- 

 men of the Anaphes pratensis I compared it with the figure given 

 in the bulletin and though I cannot be certain, the agreement of 

 the figure of the female antenna with my specimen is perfect. 

 The tarsi and wings, however, do not agree and if there has been 

 no error in the figure, the latter represents a species of Anaphes 

 different from pratensis. 



GENUS ALAPTUS Haliday. 



Alaptus animus new species. 



l''i-itmle: Length, 0.24 mm. Black suffused with dark brown, the legs and 

 antennae pale but touched in places with dusky, the antennal club black, 

 contrasting. Fore wings subhyaline, dusky under the venation; posterior 

 wings dusky, maculate with whitish. Fore wings narrow, with a mid- 

 longitudinal lino of from four to five discal cilia, the line rather short and 



