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Genus BASSETTIA, Ashmead. 

 I'T. BASSETTIA GEMM^, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1,8 to - iiiiii. lUack; jintcuiiii' .and legs — except 

 coxie and femora — reddish brown; eoxu; and femora bhick. Head 

 ronnded in front, antero-posteriorly thick, broader than the thorax, 

 and closely, finely pnnctate. Thorax strongly, transversely rugn 

 lose, the paiapsidal grooves obliterated, two short, glabrous, median 

 lines anteriorly, and a glabrous line on the shoulders. The mesono- 

 tum and the scutelhim are hardly separable, being almost connately 

 Joined, and ])reseiiting an almost unbroken surface. Tlie mesoplenra 

 are smooth and polisiied posteriorly, but anteriorly they are closely 

 punctate. 



The abdomen is much compressed, as deep ventrally as long. The 

 ventral spine is as long as the second joint of the posterior tarsi, while 

 the sheaths of tlie ovii)ositor project. 



Tijpc.—So. 3082, U.8.X.]\r. 



Described from three feimde specimens, labeled '' From J. G. Uarlow, 

 Cadet, Mo., April I'T, 1880, ovii)ositing in buds." 



L'8. BASSETTIA PALLIDA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Head, the 13-jointed antenna', thorax, and 

 legs, brownish yello\Y; the eyes and posterior tibiae dark brown, abdo- 

 men polished black. In sha])e it bears a close resemblance to the one 

 just described, but besides the colorational ditferences the sculpture of 

 thorax is less coarsely rugulose, and the ovipositor sheaths do not 

 project, while there is a transverse grooved line at base of scutelhim. 



Ti/pc.—^o. ;U)83, U.S.N.:\[. 



Described from a single specimen labeled "■ iSavannah, Georgia, April 

 15, 1881." 



COMPSODRYOXENUS, new genus. 



This genus is similar to Bassetfia, but ditlers in having (iliform, l-'J 

 or 14 jointe<l antenna-, the thii'd, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints being of 

 nearly an equal length, those l)ey<uid gradually shortening. 



The head and thorax are closely, confluently punctate, or slightly 

 rugose: thorax narrowed, the parai)sidal grooves delicate but distinct; 

 scutelhim rugose, cusliion-shaped, separated from the mesonotum by a 

 transverse groove; pleura punctate. Abdomen comi>ressed and shaped 

 as in Bassettia, the ventral valve very prominent, pointed ])lowshare- 

 shnj)ed. 



The wings, unlike Bassettia, have a distinct areolet, the vein at base 

 of marginal or radial cell arcuate and surrounded by a brown sj)ot or 

 cloud, as in the genus Anipliiholips; the margins of the basal vein are 

 also clouded, wliile there is a brown spot before the break in the anal 

 nervure. Claws entire. 



