270 HYMENOPTERA, 



or slightly longer than 3, cylindrical ; 7 slightly shorter and wider and 

 8 subequal to 6 but somewhat wider. Mandibles with three subequal, 

 rather minute teeth. Sometimes funicle joint 3 longest, when, except- 

 ing the two proximal joints, the others of the funicle are cylindrical- 

 ovate, subequal and shorter than 3, giving the funicle a more compact 

 appearance. 



From 5 specimens, 3-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from five females on tags, now remounted in 

 xylol-balsam, found in the collections of the United States 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C, bearing this label : 

 "Miss." 



Habitat. — United States : Mississippi. 



7>/'^.y.— Type No. 13,821, United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, four females in xylol-balsam, 1 slide. 

 Cotype. — Accession No. 4-4,249, Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, Urbana, Illinois ; one female similarly 

 mounted. 



11. Goiiatoceriis texanus species nova. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.55 mm. Small in size for the genus. 



Falling in the group containing anthottomi but differing from it and 

 allies by possessing a shorter marginal vein of the fore wing and in 

 being smaller ; also the fore wings are more densely and finely ciliate, 

 the discal ciliation finer and denser than with any species of the genus. 

 The antennae also differ in that the joints are all shorter. 



General color dark brown, the venation and proximal three tarsal 

 joints lighter brown; wings hyaline or very slightly fumated, more 

 noticeable at the venation and proximad of it. 



Fore wings moderate in width, with about from nineteen to twenty- 

 two longitudinal lines of discal cilia, the latter short and fine, moder- 

 ately dense, continuing caudad beneath the venation to the oblique 

 limiting line of cilia ; marginal cilia moderately short, only about a 

 fourth of the wings greatest width ; marginal vein only about six times 

 longer than wide, moderately short, about as long as the united length 

 of the proximal two tarsal joints. Posterior wings very slender, with 

 the usual discal ciliation. 



Parapsidal furrows complete ; ovipositor not exserted. Vertexal 

 carina present. Tibial spurs single, small, but those of the cephalic 

 legs much larger, curved and forked, forming a strigil. Tarsal joints 

 short, the proximal ones distinctly longer than the others, but onl^^ 



