78 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



No. A77, type in the Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. This species could not 

 be referred to Limnerium, sensu stricto if living, but as I can place it 

 nowhere else from a study of the material at hand, it has seemed 

 advisable to place it here, where it will no doubt be sought if additional 

 specimens arc secured in the future. 



Limnerium depositum, sp. nov. (Fig. 58.) 



Female. Length 6 mm. Black, the abdomen stained with rufous as follows : 

 a small spot on the side of the second segment near the tip; third segment 

 at the base and below on the sides. Fourth to sixth piceous above, rufous 

 anteriorly and below on the sides. Four anterior legs pale, the posterior pair 

 blackish with fuscous tarsi. Surface of head, thorax and pleurae coriaceous or 

 minutely punctulate. Antennae long and slender, with probably somewhat 

 over 30 joints; joints near the middle of the flagellum one and one-half times 

 as long as thick, much thicker than those toward the apex which are quadrate. 

 Metathorax areolated, but apparently the pleural areas are not separated, its 

 surface finely punctulate. Abdomen of the usual form for the genus, the 







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Fig. 58. — Limnerium depositum, sp. nov. Type. 



petiole clavately thickened, a trifle longer than the posterior slope of the meta- 

 thorax; second segment two-thirds as long as the first; third shorter and much 

 wider in lateral aspect. Ovipositor originating at the base of the fifth segment, 

 from its extreme base to tip nearly as long as the abdomen exclusive of the 

 petiole and second segment. Wings hyaline; stigma piceous, oval lanceolate; 

 veins brown; marginal cell at its widest part two and one-half times as wide 

 as the stigma; second segment of the radius straight, twice as long as the first; 

 areolet of moderate size, with a long petiole above, which is over one-half as 

 long as the cubitodiscoidal side of the areolet; median and submedian cells of 

 equal length. 



