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Legs: Tibiae and tarsi reddish -bro wn ; front and middle femora 

 vary from black in basal half to reddish-brown, being always reddish- 

 brown in distal half; hind femora black to dusky except at knees, 

 which are light brown. 



Antennae: Flagellum with pedicel shorter than head and thorax 

 combined ; scape as seen in lateral profile about same width through- 

 out and is about equal in width to first flagellar joint; shoulder near 

 distal extremit}'^ of scape not conspicuous; nearly 5 times as long u5 

 broad, exclusive of base. Scape brownish. 



Redescribed from many females reared in cages under artificial 

 conditions, from specimens reared from barley stubble collected at 

 Auburn and Little Falls, New York, by the senior writer, from 

 Harris's type in Boston Society of Natural History and from Fitch's 

 Eurytoma fulvijyes in the collection of the United States National 

 Museum. 



This species is a gall former, making conspicuous hardened enlarge- 

 ments above the second to fourth nodes in barley straw. It breeds 

 only in barley, and is normally thelyotokous, males rarely occurring. 



Walsh reared a number of specimens from barley straw sent to him 

 from Canada^ and stated that he found Fitch's tritici and secalis and 

 Harris's hordei among them, basing his identification upon the colora- 

 tion of the legs. He therefore considered tritici Fitch and secalis 

 Fitch to be synonyms of hordei Harris. He undoubtedly had H. 

 hordei Harris before him at the time. 



HARMOLITA RUFIPES, new species. 



Plate 40, flg. 1 ; plate 44, fig. 2 ; plate 46, figs. 7, 11. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. Praescutum rugulose. Pronotal spots 

 small, occupying one-half or less of the anterior dorsal margin of 

 prothorax. 



Propodeum with a continuous, narrow, deep, margined, median, 

 longitudinal groove with numerous cross rugae ; marginal carinae of 

 groove irregular, often interrupted. 



Abdomen usuall}^ distinctly longer than head and thorax combined ; 

 segment 3 shortest, 5 longest; 4 and 7 subequal; G frequently longer 

 than either ; segment 2 from one-sixth to one-fourth the length of the 

 abdomen (dorsally) exclusive of 1. 



Legs a translucent to opaque reddish-brown. 



Antennae: First funicle plus ring-joint longer than pedicel; none 

 of funicle or club joints are quadrate; club about same width as the 

 three preceding joints. Scape black. 



Species large to very large in size. 



Male (pi. 46, fig. 7). — Length 3.0 mm. Praescutum as in female. 

 Pronotal spots small, occupying less than one-half anterior dorsal 

 margin of prothorax. 



^Amer. Ent., vol. 2, p. 330, October, 1870. 



