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tense dark brown, only the trochanters and three intermediate tarsal 

 joints being lighter, the former suffused with pallid, the latter pallid 

 lemon-yellow. The scape is somewhat more dilated. Otherwise as in 

 fasciatus. Metathorax apparently bicarinate at the meson. 



Antennce 11-jointed ; scape as long as the pedicel and first three 

 funicle joints combined ; pedicel twice the length of the proximal 

 funical joint ; funicle joint 2 twice longer than 1, slightly shorter than 

 the pedicel; 3 twice longer than 2 and decidedly broader; 4 and 5 

 subequal, somewhat shorter (4 slightly shorter than 5), somewhat 

 stouter; 6 and 7 subequal, somewhat shorter than 4 ; funicle 8 still 

 shorter, slightly longer than 2 but much wider. Club long, as long as 

 the combined lengths of joints 3, 4 and 5 of the funicle. Pubescence 

 usual. 



From 1 specimen, f-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from a single female specimen mounted on a 

 tag, found in the collections of the United States National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C, and labelled simply "Tenn." 

 The specimen has been remounted in xylol-balsam. 



Habitat. — United States : Tennessee. 



7j'/^.— Type No. 13,804, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, one female in xylol-balsam. 

 8. Gouatoceriis iiiaga species nova. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.95 mm. Moderate in size for the genus; ovi- 

 positor exserted. 



Similar in appearance to rivalis but differing in color — the base of the 

 abdomen is not conspicuously colored with yellow or yellowish but the 

 body is black, the abdomen brownish-black, darker in the middle ; 

 the venation of the fore wings is darker, the fore wings themselves 

 with the longest marginal cilia somewhat shorter than those in rivalis; 

 the legs are more uniformly dark, the antenna uniformly black and 

 differing in structure — thus the sixth funicle joint is not distinctly 

 shorter than the joint immediately preceding and that following, but 

 is subequal in size to the latter, distinctly broader than the preceding 

 joint and fully as long ; further, in this species, the widening of the 

 funicle is distinct at the fifth joint, more gradual in rivalis ; the second 

 and third funicle joints in rivalis are longer than in this species. 

 Again the fore wings are not pronouncedly fumated at the distal por- 

 tion of the blade but very slightly uniformly fumated throughout with 

 the exception of the usual clear, rectangular space proximad, under 

 the submarginal vein. The exserted valves of the ovipositor are some- 



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