314 HYMENOPTERA. 



this clear naked band was followed by a lightly fumated band 

 across the proximal boundary of the discal ciliation. 



The specimen is a female mounted on a tag in the U. S. 

 National Museum collection labelled '' Polynema picipes 

 Girault 9 . Type No. 8943, U. S. N. M. J. H. Beattie, Col- 

 lector. Ft. Valley, Ga. VI, 20." The antennae and a fore 

 wing have been remounted in balsam on a single slide, label- 

 led " Hym. Slide 115 ", United States National Museum. 



In the collections of the United States National Museum 

 I have found a single specimen of this species, tagmounted, 

 now remounted in xylol-balsam which bore this label — 

 "Oswego, N. Y. August 4, 1896". This specimen has 

 been compared with the type and hence is now designated a 

 homotype. The species thus occurs in Georgia and New 

 York. The narrow fore wings having fine discal ciliation 

 and only moderately long marginal ciliation (not by far 

 longer than the greatest wing width) and the shortened dis- 

 tal three funicle joints, the comparatively very long second 

 funicle joint are characteristics which make the identification 

 of this species easy. 



Homotype, — Accession No. M,247, Illinois State Labora- 

 tory of Natural History, Urbana, one female in xylol-balsam 

 (Oswego, N. Y.). 



10. Polynema zetes species nova. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.80 mm. Small for the genus. 



Similar to longipes but dififering as follows : The whole of the thorax 

 is pale cadmium yellow ; the fore wings are less petiolate and broader, 

 their discal cilia decidedly longer and the antennal joints diflfer in that 

 the second funicle joint is shorter, not distinctly twice longer than the 

 third joint ; also the proximal funicle joint is much shorter than in 

 longipes ; the second funicle joint in longipes is distinctly longer than 

 the pedicel, barely longer in this species. 



General color black ; general appearance that of longipes but the 

 body is more slender, the fore wings less graceful and more densely 

 ciliate discally. Thorax pale cadmium yellow ; legs, antennal scape 

 and pedicel and abdominal petiole lemon-yellow, the proximal funicle 

 joint somewhat darker. Wings slightly, uniformly fumated. Vena- 

 tion, distal tarsal joints, distal five funicle joints and the club black or 

 nearly, but the whole funicle is more of less suffused with yellow. 



