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positing into eggs of Meliana albilinea, Ames, Iowa, 26 

 August, 1910. R. L. Webster." (3) A slide bearing a 

 single winged male labelled " From eggs of Meliana albi- 

 linea. Exp. 578. September 12, 1910. By Thos. McCall." 

 (4) Another slide bearing a single winged male and labelled 

 the same as the preceding and " Exp. 528. September 3, 

 1910. By T. M. M." ; also two badly shrivelled tagmounted 

 females with the same label, (5) A slide bearing a single 

 female, labelled as the preceding and also " Exp. 533. Sep- 

 tember 7, 1910"; also six tagmounted females similarly 

 labelled ; a few of these were in tolerably good condition, 

 not shrivelled very much. (6) One winged male, five females 

 tagmounted, labelled " From eggs of Meliana albi linea. Exp. 

 529. September 3, 1910 ; remounted in xylol-balsam but bad 

 specimens for study. 



From the series of tagmounted specimens of No. 5 of the 

 preceding paragraph, the body sculpture was seen to be a fine 

 reticulation as with the other species of the genus, the oc- 

 cipital region lined with fine, curved lines; more than this 

 could not be seen in this respect. These specimens were 

 nearly entirely black, only the head and a streak on the 

 thoracic notum showing yellowish. Hence, coloration here 

 varies nearly as much as in minutiim but I have seen no 

 specimens which were intensely yellow, quite common if not 

 usual with min^dimi. 



Also in the series above it will be noticed that there were 

 two winged males, a form not present in the first series of 

 specimens. These males are the same in size and otherwise 

 as the females, excepting of course the secondary sexual 

 characters which are usual ; they are colored like the females 

 first described. The antenna has the funicle-club shorter 

 than usual with the winged males of the other species and 

 the funicle joints are not distinctly indicated by constrictions 

 but the whole appears more like a solid piece. As usual, it 

 bears long setae which, however, are irregular and the nodu- 

 lar areas are not conspicuous. 



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