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ment 2 occupies between one-third and one-fourth the length of abdomen; 

 segments 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 approximately equal in length. Legs often variable 

 in color; sometimes the legs are black throughout except the knees, front 

 tibiae and all tarsi, which are luteous; perhaps more often the basal third to 

 half of front and middle femora and basal two-thirds of hind femora blackish; 

 all tibiae, knees and tarsi almost reddish brown. 



Antennae: Funicle five-jointed; club three-jointed; first funicle joint plus 

 ring jointly nearly twice as long as pedicel; all segments longer than broad; the 

 first two funicle joints longest, the remaining ones of approximately the same 

 length. Antennae black. Median line of face below insertion of antennae 

 slightl}' elevated; doreally it appears almost carinate. 



Species medium to large. 



Male. Length, 2.90 mm. Sculpturing of thorax very much the same as in 

 female, except that the umbilicate pimctures are not nearly so distinct; pro- 

 notal spots verj' small, often scarcely visible from above. Propodeum variable; 

 there may be a deep, rather broad, margined, median longitudinal groove, 

 very rugulose within and laterad of groove, or the groove may not be con- 

 tinuous and shallow, and it may be granulose within and laterad of the groove. 

 In the latter case the petiole is usually granulose; when the propodeum is 

 very rugulose the petiole is usuall}/^ somewhat rugulose. Petiole long, slender; 

 the tip of the hind coxae often extending only to about the middle of petiole. 

 Legs colored as in female. 



Antennae: Longer than head and thorax combined; scape as seen in profile 

 thickened somewhat at center; no distinct club; first segment of flagellum 

 approximately as long as scape; the remaining segments about of equal length; 

 segments excised with about three aimulations at the distal extremity of all 

 except distal segment. 



Type locality. Youngstown, Ohio. 



Type. Cat. No\ 25,474, U. S. N. M. 



Described from many females and eight males reared from stems of Cinna 

 arundinacece collected at Youngstown, Ohio, by Mr. W. T. Emery and at Niles, 

 Ohio, by the junior author. 



Harmolita phalaricola, n. sp. 



(PI. XXXVI, figs. 4 and 10; pi. XXXVII, fig. 5.) 



Female. Length, 3.52 mm. Prescutum somewhat rugulose, and the whole 

 thorax bearing numerous but rather indefinite umbilicate punctures. Pronotal 

 spots dull, minute, scarcely visible from above. 



Propodeum with a distinct, continuous, deep, medium to narrow longitudinal 

 median groove; groove not distinctly margined throughout; very rugulose 

 within and laterad of groove; spiracular area not clearly defined by spiracular 

 carinas. Abdomen short and thick, approaching ovate; slightly shorter than 

 head and thorax combined; segment 2 occupying between one-third and one- 

 half dorsal length of abdomen; segments vary in length as is common in 

 Harmolita, due to telescoping of segments when the insects die ; 3 and 4 often 

 nearly same length; 5, 6, and 7 often about same length, but shorter than 

 either 3 or 4. Legs: Basal half of front and basal two-thirds of middle and 

 hind femora black ; remaining portion of legs usually reddish brown. 



