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ing a strigil and curved. All coxte short and obconic. Proximal tar- 

 sal joints long and slender, especially those of the caudal legs which 

 are slightly longer or subequal in length to the combined length of the 

 other joints, distinctly twice longer than the second joint. 



Antennse normal to the genus. Scape moderate in length, not long, 

 about as long as the pedicel and first funicle joint combined ; pedicel 

 obconic, slightly longer than the first funicle joint, which is four times 

 longer than wide, somewhat over a half longer than the second funicle 

 joint ; the latter long and slender, a third longer than joint 3 which is 

 slightly longer than 1 ; of the next three funicle joints, the second 

 (joint 5) is shortest, not much longer than wide, rectangular, the first 

 (joint 4) a fourth longer than the middle joint and the third (distal 

 funicle joint) is nearly a third longer than the first (joint 4) or sub- 

 equal in length to the proximal funicle joint but broader, cylindrical 

 ovate ; joint 3 of funicle slightly widening distad ; joints 4, 5 and 6 

 each slightly wider in succession ; club solid, long, conic-ovate, with 

 longitudinal grooves leading from apex. Pubescence sparse, short, in- 

 conspicuous. The club is longer than the scape. 



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

 Bausch and Lomb. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from a single female specimen remounted in 

 balsam from a tag in the National Museum collections label- 

 led " Cosmocoma. From wheat. College Station, Texas, 

 Feby., 1891. Webster". 



Habitat. — United States : College Station, Texas. 



Tj'/*^.— Type No. 13,813, United States National Museum, 

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



4. Polyiiema caesiiriatipemie species nova. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.95 mm. Moderately small for the genus. 



Allied with and resembling maculipes Ashmead but at once distin- 

 guished by its peculiar fore wings, which are more petiolate, the blade 

 more paddle-shaped, its sides parallel, broader, its marginal cilia 

 longer and finer, distinctly longer, but not very much so, than the 

 blade's greatest width, the blade regularly elliptical-ovate, the discal 

 cilia remarkable in being very long like hair, as long, or somewhat 

 longer, for instance, than the long marginal cilia of the caudal margin 

 of the posterior wings, but by far not as long as the marginal cilia of 

 the fore wing ; moreover it is somewhat curly and projects into the 

 field of the marginal cilia. The coloration is the same as in viaculipes 

 but the yellow parts of the body are a less intense yellow, pallid to 

 neutral yellow. The marginal cilia of the cephalic margin of the poste- 



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