200 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 63. 



PHANEROTOMA FKANKLINI, new species. 



Female. — Length 4.25 mm. Differs from other North American 

 species by having the first abscissa of radius less than half the length 

 of the second abscissa. Head finely rugulose, except the clypeiis, 

 which is smooth with sparse fine punctures ; the clypeus is large, and 

 on the anterior margin are three minute teeth; malar space shorter 

 than the width of a mandible at base ; mandibles bidentate, the upper 

 tooth much longer than the lower; eyes large, about equal in width 

 to the posterior orbits, which are broad and only slightly narrowed 

 behind; ocelli in a very slightly acute-angled triangle, antennae 23- 

 jointed, the first flagellar joint nearly four times as long as thick, 

 following joints gradually shorter, the apical eight or ten joints sub- 

 quadrate and submoniliform ; thorax gradually rugulose and opaque, 

 except the propleura, which are more or less shining, with slightly 

 coarser sculpture; propodeum rugose, the posterior lateral angles 

 slightly prominent; forewings faintly fuscous, with the base and a 

 streak below the stigma hyaline ; radius originating much beyond the 

 middle of stigma, its second abscissa about two-thirds the length of 

 first intercubitus and nearly twice as long as second intercubitus ; ab- 

 domen about equal to the thorax in length, strongly sculptured, bi- 

 carinat« at base, the two carinae converging and nearly or quite 

 meeting at apex of the first tergite; ovipositor slightly exserted. 

 General color reddish testaceous; eyes and spot enclosed by ocelli 

 black ; apex of antennae fuscous ; hind tibiae dark reddish brown or 

 blackish on apical half with a whitish band just before the middle, 

 the base reddish ; forewings faintly fuscous with the base and a streak 

 below the stigma hyaline, veins and stigma brown, the base and apex 

 of latter yellowish. 



Male. — Differs from the female only in the usual sexual characters. 



Type-locality. — East Wareham, Massachusetts. 



Tijpe.—C?it. No. 20377, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Mineola vaccinii. 



Described from a number of specimens reared from larvae of the 

 cranberry fruit worm by Dr. H. J. Franklin, for whom the species 

 is named. The species has been referred to in literature by Doctor 

 Franklin under the name of Phanerotoma tibialis ^ Haldeman, but is 

 readily distinguished from what we are calling that species by the 

 different character of radius. 



1 Bulletin No. 150, Mass. Agrlc. Exp. Sta., 1914, p. 55; also Bull. No. 160, Mass. 

 Agrlc. Exp. Sta., 1915, p. 109 ; 28th Annual Report, Cape Cod Cranberry Growers 

 Association, 1915, p. 23. 



