March, 1911.] GiRAULT : NeW SpECIES OF PoLYNEMA. 21 



angles of those funicle joints acute: scape equal to the pedicel and proximal 

 funicle joint combined, more slender than in the female; pedicel obconic, sub- 

 equal in length to the following joint or slightly shorter, wider than the scape ; 

 funicle joints all about equal in length and width but slightly lengthening 

 distad. 9 and 10 longest; in regard to the former, joints 3 to 10 subequal, the 

 second joint somewhat shorter and the first shorter still, about a fifth shorter 

 than joint 3 ; club joint long-ovate, equal to funicle joint 2, hence shorter than 

 joint 10 of the funicle. Petiole of abdomen as long or longer than the 

 caudal coxae. 



(From 2 specimens, two thirds inch objective, one inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb. ) 



Described from the following specimens: One slide labelled " W. 

 1892.^ F. M. Webster. Wooster, Ohio; Urbana, Illinois. Reared 

 with E. cragrostidis. (i)0!igosita avicricaua Ashm. (2) Polyncma 

 citripcs Ashm." and bearing id',:? of the latter and two pairs of an 

 undescribed species of IVcsti^^oodcUa ; original material; names in 

 Ashmead's handwriting. One male and two females, formerly tag- 

 mounted, now remounted in xylol-balsam (i slide), from the U. S. 

 National Museum collection, labelled " Bred from Enrytomocharis 

 cragrostidis. Urbana, Illinois, F. M. Wester," arranged in the col- 

 lection with 'the following specimen. One female from the same 

 collection and similarly remounted bearing the labels in the late 

 Dr. Ashmead's hand, " Cosmocoma citripes Ashm. Type ", " Type " 

 and " Ind.," evidently original material but not type material as the 

 label was yellow, not red, like those used by the National Museum, 

 and the specimen bore no number and is not entered in the catalogue 

 of types. One slide bearing two females received for identification 

 from Dr. L. O. Howard, labelled " collected with Thrips on carna- 

 tions from Nashville, Tenn. 9-12-09. H. F. Wilson." Designated 

 as homotypes. Three females on a slide with other miscellaneous my- 

 marids labelled " Urbana, Illinois, July i, 1910, sweeping. Girault." 

 Finally, a slide bearing a single female labelled " Polynema citripes 

 Ashmead. Centralia, Illinois, window, August 25, 1909. Girault." 

 Homotype. 



Habitat. — United States — Illinois (Urbana, Centralia); Indiana; 

 Tennessee (Nashville) ; Ohio (Wooster) ; Florida. 



Homotypes. — Cat. No. 13,453, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, 2 $'s in xylol-balsam, i slide. (Nashville, Tenn. 

 See preceding.) Accession No. 44,1/5, Illinois State Laboratory of 



