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joints, about a fourth shorter than any of the joints from 2 to 8. Pubescence 

 or clothing inconspicuous; funicle joints distinctly, uniformly longitudinally 

 ribbed or striate and the disto-lateral angle of each is subacute, the distal ends 

 truncate, the jiroximal ends slightly narrowed and then truncate. Pedicel 

 gourd-shaped, truncate distad, then convexly swollen, then proximad, ending 

 in a neck; pedicel slightly more than half the length of the first funicle joint; 

 scape short, not very much longer than the pedicel and dilated ventrad to the 

 width of the pedicel. Antenn?e longer than the body. 



(From 6 specimens, two thirds inch objective, one inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb.) 



A large and graceful species with long wings and closely resem- 

 bling in some respects Polyncma howardii (Ashmead), but the fore 

 wings are somewhat more finely ciliated (about 20 lines of cilia 

 instead of about 18) ; they are somewhat broader, especially as noted 

 in regard to their proportionate length to the longest marginal cilia, 

 their caudal margins are convex instead of nearly straight and the 

 anlennal joints of the male are distinctly longer and more slender 

 (the female of hozvardii is unknown). The species is so different 

 from macnUpcs Ashinead, also of which the male only is known, that 

 particular differences will not be mentioned here other than to state 

 that the fore wings are very much larger and more densely ciliated, 

 the discal ciliation of the fore wings in macidipcs being very coarse, 

 the wings themselves narrow. 



Described from the following series of specimens : 



I. Two balsam slides from Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entoinologist, 

 Albany, N. Y., through Mr. C. T. Brues under date of March 3, 



1909, thus — a male specimen on one slide labelled "a 1695, Aug. 31, 

 1907, Albany, X. Y." ; and a female specimen on the other slide 

 labelled "a iioi xx. Alb. May 12, 1906." Under date of October 11, 



1910, Dr. Felt stated in a letter concerning these specimens — "a 1695 

 was obtained from clover heads infested with the clover midge, 

 Dasyneiira leguminicola Lintn., taken in the vicinity of Albany, N. 

 Y. The female mounted on the slide labelled a iioi was undoubt- 

 edly reared from a jar containing galls of Rhabdophaga triticoides 

 Walsh on Salix cordifolia taken in the vicinity of Albany, X. Y." 

 Accordingly, the host relations here are obscure. 



II. A collection of 3 males and 10 females on tags received from 

 Air. H. E. Hodgkiss, X. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, 

 X, Y., through the Xational Bureau of Entomology and all labelled 



