280 HYMENOPTERA. 



serve to place it at once. Also, its posterior wings are not 

 Mymarid in structure ; otherwise it agrees in general appear- 

 ance with Anaphes and were it not for its essential structures 

 could easily be mistaken for a member of that genus. For 

 the present, I leave it unplaced. Its antennas are but 8- 

 jointed, its tarsi 5-jointed, other characters which preclude 

 its position here. 



3. Anaphes gracilis Howard. 



Howard, 1881, p. 370, pi. xxiv, fig. 6. 

 Elsewhere (Girault, 1911 b) I redescribed this species and 

 recorded it from Illinois ; its original specimen has never been 

 found but the antennal structure is characteristic. The spe- 

 cies may be an Anagrus, but until the male is known it had 

 better be left with this genus. Ashmead (1887, p. 194) gives 

 the habitat of this species as California but that is a mistake 

 and Smith (1910) records it from New Jersey, it is evident 

 not from actual specimens. However, the species should 

 occur in New Jersey at least. In Girault (1911 b) , a typo- 

 graphical error occurs in giving the accession number of a 

 specimen of this species in the collections of the Illinois 

 State Laboratory of Natural History ; its number is 44,221 

 and not 4-2,221 ; also the specimen was captured in 1909. 

 Its type number in the United States National Museum is 

 2620. 



4. Anaphes sinipennis species nova. 

 Normal position. 



Fetnale. — Length, 0.60 mm. With nearly the habitus of Cainptoptera 

 Foerster. Moderately small to small for the genus. Characterized by 

 deep black color and curved, rather narrow fore wings and a strange, 

 foreign aspect for the genus (Cf. its structural details). 



General color uniformly, deep black, the antennae and legs lighter, 

 smoky or dusky black, the scape and pedicel suffused slightly with 

 yellowish; x^%QVi\h\m^^ovciQyN\isX Anaphoidea pullicrura Girault. Fore 

 wings distinctly uniformly but not pronouncedly fumated (dusky) but 

 clear under the proximal half of the marginal vein and with a line 

 of minute white dots along each edge. Posterior wings similarly 

 fumated throughout and with a row of small clear dots along the poste- 

 rior edge of the blade. Venation dusky. Eyes and ocelli inconspicuous. 



Fore wings narrow for the genus and curved as in the genus Campiop- 

 tera Foerster, nearly, the caudal margin concave, cephalic margin 



