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wider than the scape or pedicel and as long as the former, 3-jointed, 

 its proximal joint not more than a fifth the length of the distal joint, 

 hemisperical, rounded proximad and nearly truncate distad, wider 

 than long ; the intermediate joint transverse, widest, both joints together 

 not as long as the large terminal joint ; distal club joint subequal in 

 length to the pedicel, or somewhat longer, conic, longer than wide. 

 Pubescence of antennse normal, sparse, the hairs long and soft (fig. 3) . 



From 3 specimens, s-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb. 



Described from three female specimens stupefied with 

 chloroform and then mounted in balsam, the coloration and 

 sculpture taken from the specimens while yet alive. Two of 

 these specimens were captured from the same window-pane 

 as the other specimens taken at Centralia, Illinois, on Sep- 

 tember 9, 1909 ; the third by sweeping in a meadow, Urbana, 

 Illinois, June 8, 1910. The characteristics of this beautiful 

 species are the yellow anchor-like figuration on the mesos- 

 cutum, the yellow scutellum. flagellum and face. In balsam 

 mounts, the antennae become transversely wrinkled so that 

 the true segmentation is liable to be obscured, the club ap- 

 pearing to be less than 3-jointed ; the coloration is also some- 

 what obscured but the ring-joints are barely visible unless 

 mounted in some medium. 



Habitat. — United States : Centralia and Urbana, Illinois. 



7>/><?.— -Type No. 13,390, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, 1 9 in xylol-balsam (Centralia, Illinois, 

 September 9, 1909). Cotype.— Accession No. 44,162 (1 9 in 

 xylol-balsam, 1 slide, Urbana, June 8, 1910), Illinois State 

 Laboratory of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois. 



2. ABBELLA genus novum. (Figs. 4 and 5.) 

 Normal to the subfamily, the discal ciliation arranged in 

 regular rows, but yet evidently allied with Oligosita West- 

 wood and Westivoodella Ashmead,.the venation and wings 

 similar in many details, the antennae very similar and the 

 general habitus similar. For the present, therefore, I em- 

 phasize its similarity to these two ; it has an additional funi- 

 cle joint and different wing ciliation. It is also somewhat 

 similar to Ittys described beyond. 

 Normal position. 



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