44 Psyche [April 



not narrowed laterally, with its margins strongly arcuate, but 

 nearly parallel; third and fourth each only a little more than half 

 as long as the second and but little narrower; fifth and sixth shorter 

 and suddenly narrower. Legs rather short and not very stout; 

 anterior tibiae without bristles: middle tibiae each with a pair of 

 unequal bristles at the basal third and with two long spurs and 

 several shorter bristles at the tip; hind tibia with a series of about 

 ten strong bristles externally, about as long as the width of the 

 tibia; these form a single row except at the base where three of 

 them are in a second row anterior to the first one. Color: head, 

 thorax and legs pale brownish yellow, the antennae and palpi 

 lighter; abdomen fuscous, darker laterally and at tip; underside 

 quite decidedly paler than the upper. Described from a single 

 female from Natal, August, 1915. (B. Marie}'.) In the collection 

 of the South African Museum. 



FOSSIL CYNIPED^.i 

 By Alfred C. Kinsey. 



The following references to fossil Cynipidae have been made 

 regularly throughout the literature, but as here indicated no one 

 of the references applies to a description or location of a true gall- 

 wasp, 



ScHLOTHEiM, E. F., 1820. Die Petrefadenkunde. Gotha. Page 

 43, merely names "Cynips" in a list of fossil insects known, mainly 

 from amber. 



Presl, J. S., 1822. Delicicr Pragenses Historiam Naturalem 

 Spedantes. Pragae., Vol. 1, p. 195, has this: "Cynips succinea. 

 Longitudo f lineae. Caput globosum, parvulum, rufescens; 

 antennae longae, fere quater longitudine sua caput superantes, 

 evidenter ex articulis minutis aequalibus compositse. Thorax 

 tergo atro, pectore rufescente. Abdomen ovale, stylo dependens, 

 lucidum, fuscum. Alae quatuor, anteriores obovatae, latae, corpore 

 longiores fere tantum, quantum longitudo abdominis efficit, 

 pellucidae, inquibus decursus venarum non determinabilis quoniam 

 alae posteriores subtus jacent; alae posteriores parum breviores 



1 Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard 

 University, No. 154. 



