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long, thin and slender, the posterior tarsi longer than their femora. 

 The posterior Avings are narrow, linear, without discal ciliation excepting 

 a paired line along the cephalic edge and a single linc along the posterior 

 edge. For the data on this specics, see Asfidiotiphagus citrinus. This 

 species by having a fascia on the fore wings is allied with bifasciatifenne 

 and himacidaii'penne. 



2. Polynema striaticorne Girault. 



A Single male specimen of this species was found in an alcoholic 

 collection of Chalcidoidea turned over to me for identification by 

 a member of the Department of Zoology, University of Chicago; 

 the vial containing it bore the labeis ,, University of Chicago. Allen. 

 554." and „Geo. D. Allen. 8. 10. 09. Stony Is. 554." 



3. Polynema fumifenne Walker. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse of England has sent me two female specimens 

 of a Polynema which he identifies as the forementioned species of 

 Walker's. The specimens differ froni any American species knowr. to 

 me but are most closely allied with maculipes Ashmead (in having 

 coarse discal ciliation) on the one hand, and eiichenopae Girault on the 

 other. From the former they differ in having iniich broader, differently 

 shaped fore wings (about twenty longitudinal lines across the widest 

 portion of the fore wing) and in being much more robust. From enche- 

 nopae they also differ in having broader fore wings and in robustness ; 

 moreover from the latter they differ in having longer marginal cilia 

 on the fore wing, which are i\ot quite as long as the wings greatest 

 width. Altough in fumijjenne the antennae are nearly similar to those 

 of encJienopae, yet the second funicle Joint is relatively longer. The 

 legs are wholly orange yellow. The discal cilia are long and hairlike, 

 giving the fore wings a slight clouded appearance. The line of foveae 

 across the distal end of the scutellum is present, the parapsidal furrows 

 are complete; the ovipcsitor is slightly exserted as in striaticorne 

 Girault. The general body color is black, the thorax suffused with 

 brownish. 



The two specimens were labelled ,,Cosmocoma fumipennis Walker. 

 Eng. Richmond. $. 24. 9. 09. Whitehouse Plantations. C. Waterhouse." 



4. Polynema flavipes Walker. 



A pair of this British species was found mounted on separate cards 

 in the coUections of the United States National Museum, each card 

 labelled ,, Polynema flavipes. Am. Ent. Soc. To be retumed." No 

 other data were present. The specimens were remounted together 

 on a slide in xylol-balsam and studied. The species is distinct from any 

 known to me but resembles in color wings Polynema enockii (Girault) 

 another British species form.ing the type of Enock's Stephanodes 

 (= Polynema). As concens the known Ainorican forms of the genus, 

 it is allied closely with striaticorne Girault but differs in being more 

 highly colored (the yellow being chronic yellow or chronic orange) in 

 having the first and third funicle joints of the antennae relatively 

 longer in proportion to the second, in lacking the serrulation of the 

 scape and in lacking the slightly exserted ovipositor. Otherwise the 



