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fined. Abdomen same length as head and thorax combined; segments 3 and 5 

 about of equal length; 4, 6 and 7 about equal in length and each usually longer 

 than either 3 or 5. Legs: All knees, tibiae and tarsi usually reddish brown, 

 femora blackish. 



Antennae: Funicle five-jointed; first funicle joint plus ring joint about twice 

 as long as pedicel; first joint of funicle slender and same size throughout, the 

 distal tip somewhat flaring; all of funicle joints distinctly longer than broad; 

 club joints also longer than broad; antennae black and \ery slender. 



Species medium in size. 



Male. Length 2.60 mm. Prescutum as in female, but there are few thor- 

 acic punctures; pronotal spots large and bright. Propodeum with or without 

 a groove; groove when present is often rather poorly defined; propodeum 

 usually very rugose, though it may sometimes be granulose; spiracular area 

 usually well defined. Petiole usually about twice as long as broad, granulose 

 and extends beyond the tip of the coxae. Legs: All knees and tarsi testaceous; 

 front tibiae usually reddish brown. 



Antennae : Flagellum with peticel longer than head and thorax combined ; 

 hairs on first flagellar joint approximate! j' same length as those on last joint; 

 last joint bears a slender tubercle at end about twice as long as broad. Scape, 

 exclusive of base, a little o\'er twice as long as broad, broadest about center, 

 as seen in lateral profile ; scape as seen in lateral profile nearly twice as broad 

 as first flagellar joint. There are four or more annulations at each articulation 

 of the flagellum. 



This species iims to dactylicola in the Phillips- and Emery table of species, 

 but the females may be separated by the following characters: H. phalaridis 

 has more densely pitted scutellum ; propodeum more rugulose ; groove deeper 

 and same width throughout; spiracular carinse more prominent; tibiae usually 

 reddish brown; first funicle joint of antennae cylindrical, very slender and, 

 distal extremity somewhat flaring at tip. All segments of antennae more slen- 

 der than in dactylicola. 



Type locality. Ithaca, N. Y. 



Type. Cat. No. 25,473, U. S. N. M. 



Described from manj^ males and females reared from stems of Phalaris 

 arundinacea collected at Ithaca, N. Y., by Professor Crosby and the junior au- 

 thor, and from specimens reared from stems of Phalaris sp. collected at Elk 

 Point, S. Dak., by Mr. C. N. Ainslie of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. 



Harmolita cinme, n. sp. 



(PI. XXXVI, figs. 1 and 3; pi. XXXVII, figs. 3 and 4.) 



Female. Length, 3.80 mm. The whole thorax somewhat rugulose and more 

 or less distinctly umbilicately punctured, the pimctures shallow and usually 

 not well defined; prescutum sometimes not umbilicately punctured in anterior 

 third; pronotal spots small, occupying about one-third anterior dorsal margin 

 of pronotum, visible from above. Proi)odeum with a deep, margined, con- 

 tinuous, median, longitudinal groove of medium width; groove with numer- 

 ous cross rugae and usually with a central longitudinal carina; very rugulose 

 laterad of groove; sjiiracular area usually well defined, thovigh sometimes the 

 spiracular carinae are weak. Abdomen equal to or slightly longer than head 

 and thorax combined, and almost as pointed as the average Harmolita; seg- 



