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series of dark brown rings; tarsi with narrow, ill-defined brown apical 

 rings. 



Length : Body, about 2.5 mm. ; wing, 2 mm. 



San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba (J. H. Pazos). One male. 



Type. Cat. No. 16253, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



A NEW SPECIES OF AMPHIBOLIPS 



{Hymenoptera, Cynipida) 

 By WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER 



Amphibolips montana, new species. 



Female : Head daurk red, rugose with large pit-like punctures on the 

 cheeks and vertex. Antennae 1 6-jointed, first joint stout, much broader 

 at the top than at the base, second joint half as long as the first, third as 

 long as the first and second together, fourth half as long as the third, fol- 

 lowing joints short, about the size of the second, last joint longer. Thorax 

 black minutely granulated or shagreened with large pit-like punctures 

 anteriorly, posteriorly, and along each side of the peirapsidal grooves as 

 well as along the extreme sides. Parapsidal grooves narrow and sharply 

 defined, divergent at the collar, thence inwardly oblique to the scutellum, 

 where they are wadely apart. Anterior parallel lines long but. not extend- 

 ing to the middle of the thoreix. Median groove continuous and sharply 

 defined, but not so much as the parapsides. Lateral grooves long and 

 deep. Pleurae coarsely aciculated with an opaque, minutely aciculated 

 patch. Scutellum very coarsely rugose with two very large amd deep 

 foveae at the base separated by a smooth carina. Mesonotum rugose, 

 densely covered with short yellowish white hairs. Abdomen globose, 

 well rounded dorsally, brown, second segment blackish brov/n, micro- 

 scopically punctate, shining and with a basal patch of pale hairs on each 

 side of the second segment. Legs brown, last pair darker. Coxae cov- 

 ered with yellowish white hairs. Wings yellowish hyaline, veins heavy 

 and dark brown ; radial arc broad and open at the costal margin ; cubi- 

 tus almost touching the first cross-vein ; areolet large ; second cross-vein 

 curved outwardly ; anal vein broken. Length, 4 mm. 



Habitat : Summit of Mount Graybeard, Blue Ridge, North Carolina. 

 Altitude, 5,000 feet. 



A strange and aberrant species easily known from its congeners by the 



