80 HYMENOPTERA. 



During the late summer of 1910 I visited the National Mu- 

 seum collections and found therein three female specimens 

 of this species mounted side by side on a card labelled " 7>'/- 

 chogramma aaiminatuni Ashmead " in the well known hand- 

 writing of Dr. Ashmead and from these specimens I took 

 the following notes : 



Congeneric with Brachista pallida Ashmead. Wings similar to those 

 of that species as is also the shape of the body, the abdomen long, 

 slender, conic-ovate, longer than head and thorax united. Antennse 

 8-jointed, as in Ittys — scape, pedicel, 1 ring-joint, 2 funicle joints and 

 a 3-jointed club. Venation straight, marginal and submarginal veins 

 about equal, the short stigmal vein with an ovate, fuscous spot leading 

 from it ; fore wings with about 17 longitudinal lines of discal cilia ; 

 marginal cilia moderately long at apex ; no oblique line of discal cilia 

 leading back from the stigmal vein. Posterior wings with two princi- 

 pal lines of cilia, the caudal line fainter and with its cilia farther apart 

 in the line ; in addition to the lines along both wing edges. Parapsidal 

 furrows complete. Fore wings long and but moderately broad. Me- 

 soscutum and scutellum bright pale lemon yellow, contrasting with 

 the darker, soiled brownish of the rest of the body, the distinguishing 

 characteristic of the species (i. e. in re pallida); pallida is uniform in 

 general ground color. Otherwise the two species are similar. fCf. 7 

 specimens labelled " 134 " and also " Brachista fidise.") 



These undoubted original (not type, not so designated or 

 labelled*) specimens were compared with a larger series of 

 other specimens (mentioned and listed beyond) found in the 

 same collection and these in turn were brought to Urbana, 

 remounted in balsam and compared at leisure with the speci- 

 mens captured in Illinois ; all were identical. At the same 

 time that the original specimens of aamimata were examined, 

 as alread intimated, I also examined the types of Brachista 

 pallida, of which only one specimen of the original two tag- 

 mounted types remained intact. The two type tags were 

 labelled as follows: " 8694"2. Aug. 12, '99. Type No. 

 5320. Brachista pallida Ashm. 9 type." for the one and the 

 other the same and this " From eggs of Lestes, Lake Forest, 

 111., Aug. 4, '99." From the first specimen, which was intact 

 (the other was entirely missing) I made a balsam mount of 



* But now remounted in xylol-balsam and deposited as types as 

 stated in foregoing. 



