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slender pulvilli nearly as long as the slender, curved, simple claws. 

 Ovipositor short, the lobes narrowly oval, sparsely setose. Other char- 

 acters as in the male. The colors are approximate, since the descrip- 

 tions were drafted from balsam mounts. 



Received through Dr. L. O. Howard, from Prof. C. H. T. 

 Townsend, Piura, Peru, and numbered by him 7009. Easily 

 distinguished from E. perfidus Kieff. by its much smaller size 

 and the presumably yellow color of the abdomen. 



Endaphis americana n. sp. 



The first North American representative of this European 

 genus was reared September 2, 1910, from what appeared to 

 be galls of Eriophyes jraxinijlora Felt on Fra.rinns velutina 

 collected by Dr. R. E. Kunze, Prescott, Arizona, August I5th. 

 There was no doubt as to the foliage having been deformed 

 by Eriophyes, since mites were rather abundant and relatively 

 large. There may have been a few aphids in addition. 



Description. Female. Length i mm. Antennae extending to the sec- 

 ond abdominal segment, yellowish transparent, slightly fuscous; 14 

 segments, the first excavated and with the margins produced dorsally 

 and ventrally, the se<ond subglobose, the third and fourth free, the 

 fifth with a stem about l / the length of the cylindric basal enlarge- 

 ment, which latter has a length about 2 l / 2 times its diameter ; subbasal 

 and subapical whorls sparse; terminal segment slightly produced, with 

 a length about 2 l / 2 times its diameter, broadly rounded apically; mouth- 

 parts slightly produced, having a length about 1.3 the diameter of the 

 head. Palpi : first segment subquadrate, the second Y 2 longer, the third 

 a little longer and broader than the second, the fourth a little longer 

 and more dilated than the third ; thorax and base of the abdomen dark 

 fuscous yellowish, the latter yellowish white apically. Wings hyaline, 

 the membrane rather thickly clothed with narrow, curved, hair-like 

 scales ; costa dark brown, subcosta uniting therewith near the basal 

 third, the third vein at the distal fourth, the fifth before the distal third, 

 its branch at the basal third. Halteres yellowish transparent. Legs whit- 

 ish transparent, the distal tarsal segments slightly fuscous ; claws slen- 

 der, strongly curved, simple, the pulvilli nearly as long as the claws. 

 Ovipositor when extended about 1-3 the length of the abdomen, the 

 terminal lobes narrowly lanceolate, with a length about 2^/2 times the 

 width and sparsely setose apically. 



Type Cecid 32066, N. Y. State Museum. 



