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equal in size and shape, hence the former shorter than usual ; it is, 

 however, somewhat larger than the pedicel, and conic, the pedicel ob- 

 conic ; funicle joints all distinctly shorter and smaller than the pedicel, 

 the first and third joints smallest, subequal, a third longer than wide, 

 distinctly less than a fourth the size of the pedicel ; second joint long- 

 est, a third longer than joint 1, a fifth longer than joint 6, somewhat 

 over half the length of the pedicel, rectangular-ovate ; joints 4, 5 and 

 6 broader, ovate, 4 distinctly larger than 3, somewhat more so than 5, 

 joint 6 largest of the funicle with the exception of joint 2; it is broader 

 than the latter. The club is short and ellipsoidal, very much larger 

 than any of the funicle joints and distinctly twice the size of either the 

 scape or pedicel, equal to over half the length of the funicle, or of the 

 combined lengths of the scape and pedicel ; bearing at least two long 

 longitudinal grooves. Pubescence inconspicuous. 



From a single specimen, |-inch objective, 1-inch optic, 

 Bausch and Lomb. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from a single female specimen remounted in 

 balsam from a tag in the U. S. National Museum collections 

 labelled " Washington, D. C. 31-7-05. H.S.Barber." 



Habitat. — United States : District of Columbia. 



7>/d'.— Type No. 13,812, United States National Museum, 

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



This species resembles a Polynema somewhat on account 

 of the narrowing of its abdomen proximad as if petiolate, 

 but I have searched for a petiole in vain. It would be a 

 characteristic species ot that genus as it is of Anagrus be- 

 cause of its short-jointed antennae, straight caudal margin of 

 the fore-wing, the narrow fore wings with the long marginal 

 cilia and its general appearance. 



DIAGNOSTIC TABLE 

 of the North American Species of Anagrus Haliday— Females, Males. 

 (Cf. Table for Anaphes.) 

 I. Species yellow or dusky yellow ; at least some of the funicle joints 

 longer than the pedicel, the proximal funicle joint minute ; 

 fore wings with the discal ciliation reaching to the vena- 

 tion, narrower, bearing from 5 to 11 lines of discal cilia. 

 1. Fore wings narrow, with only about from 5 to 7 longitudinal 

 lines of discal cilia across the widest blade portion, 

 a. Second funicle joint of antenna longer and more slender than 

 the third, distinctly longer than the sixth. 



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