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on the abdomen, lemon-yellow ; palpi, scape, pedicel and first joint of 

 flagellum beneath^ tegulae, a spot in front, epitegulae, apices of front 

 and middle coxas and trochanters, second joint of hind trochanters, 

 and more or less of the front femora and tarsi beneath .^ yellowish- 

 white ; rest of coxae black, remainder of legs mostly rufous, the femora 

 with a blackish spot or stripe toward base beneath, the femora and 

 tibi^ outwardly fuscous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and veins 

 brownish. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5665, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Berg Bay, 

 June 10. One specimen. 



Zootrephes Forster. 

 ZOOTREPHES INSULARIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 6 mm. Black ; face below antennje, clypeus, 

 cheeks, mandibles, a U-shaped mark on mesonotum connected with a 

 band on lateral margins, a dot on pronotum above, a spot in front of 

 tegulae, the epitegulcE, a spot beneath tegulae, prosternum, mesosternum, 

 except a large black spot posteriorly, the apical half of hind coxae, the 

 venter narrowly along the lateral margins, extreme apex of dorsal ab- 

 dominal segment 2, most of 3, except a lateral black spot, and a 

 median line on dorsal segment 4, lemon-yellow; palpi, tegulte, front 

 and middle coxse and trochanters and hind trochanters yellowish-white ; 

 basal half of hind coxas black, the remainder of the legs, except the 

 hind pair, which are dusky behind, rufous ; flagellum ferruginous, 

 dusky above. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5666, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Fopof Island, 

 July 8. One specimen. 



Genus Phthorina Forster. 

 PHTHORINA BOREALIS sp. nov. 



Alale. — Length 4 mm. Polished black, the metathorax incom- 

 pletely areolated ; mandibles and legs from the apex of the femora 

 and the apices of ventral abdominal segments, rufo-testaceous ; palpi 

 and epitegulae yellowish- white, tegulae black. Wings hyaline, the 

 stigma, except a yellowish spot at base, and the veins dark brown. 

 Abdomen, except the first segment, smooth and polished, the first 

 segment feebly wrinkled and with two dorsal carinae on the basal 

 half. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5667, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Popof Island, 

 July 9. One specimen. 



