Sept., 191 1.] Girault: Notes on Hymenoptera Cpialcidoidea. 189 



to the apex of the blade, whereas in vcnustum it ends against the 

 costal margin of the blade, some distance (about 3 cilia) distad of 

 the apex of the blade; in pidchcUum the fumated portion of the blade 

 is smoky black, in rciiiistion smoky brown. In the color of the 

 antennae: In iriuistiiiii. they are yellow (light gamboge) with the 

 exception of the club which is fuscous or black brown ; whereas in 

 pulchellnm, the first three funicle joints and the club of the antennae 

 are black brown, the other joints yellow. The male of pulchcllum 

 is like the female; its antennje. however, are filiform and 13-jointed. 



From a male and female of pulchcllum labelled "Richmond, Eng. 

 10. 9. 10. C. Waterhouse." remounted in xylol-balsam from a card and 

 the single type specimen of z'cnustum-. 



Type (of vcnustum) : Cat. No. 13,820, U. S. National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. i female in xylol-balsam. 



Genus POLYNEMA Haliday. 

 Polynema consobrinus Girault. 



Of this very common member of the genus the following recent 

 captures have been made in Illinois : One female from the window of 

 a livery stable, St. Joseph, May 21, 191 1. One female on the window 

 of a hennery on a farm at Hendrix (Bloomington), May 31, 1911; 

 another female on a stable window at Ridgefarm, May 29, 191 1; two 

 others in a greenhouse, Urbaiia, May 5 and 6, 191 1, and one May 9, 

 191 1, in the same place on the panes of a window in a livery stable. 



Polynema longipes (Ashmead). 



I have captured a single female specimen of this species at St. 

 Joseph, 111., May 21. 191 1. on the window of a stable. Also three 

 others at Nashville, 111., June 10. 191 1, in a similar situation. 



Polynema graculus Girault. 



At St. Joseph, 111., May 21, 191 1, I took a male of this charac- 

 teristic species from the pane of a window in a livery stable. 



