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named in honor of Prof. J. C. Bradley in recognition of his pioneering 

 revisionary work in this family. 



8b. RHYDINOFOENUS FLORIDANUS FLORIDANUS (Bradley), new combination 



Foenus floridanus Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 112, 1908. Type: 

 9 , Enterprize, Fla. (Philadelphia) . 



Colored as in i?. floridanus bradleyi except that more or less of the 

 thorax, all of the hind coxa, hind trochanters, the hind femur except 

 apically, the first tergite, and the basal part of the second tergite are 

 ferruginous. Also, the wings are light brown. In the subspecies 

 bradleyi and in all other Nearctic members of the genus the wings are 

 hyaline or subhy aline. 



Specimens. — cf, Tifton, Ga. (Washington). 9, Hibernia, Fla., 

 August 7, 1939, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 



9. RHYDINOFOENUS ENODIS. new species 



Occipital carina sharply refleied, mesoscutum mat, its punctures 

 weak and sparse, first abscissa of subdiscoidal vein present. 



Female: Forewing about 5.0 mm. long; top of head with very 

 fine close punctures; temple weakly convex; head about 0.42 as wide 

 at occipital carina as at eyes: occipital carina separated from the 

 head by a sharp groove, sharply reflexed, about 0.12 as wide as the 

 flagellum, unsculptured; propleurum about 1.3 as long as the width 

 of the mesoscutum, mat and with close small punctures and some 

 transverse wrinkling; lateral lobe of mesoscutum mat, with very 

 sparse, moderately small, weak punctures and often with a little 

 weak, fine, irregularly transverse wrinkling; ovipositor sheath about 

 1.8 as long as the forewing. 



Blackish. Mandible, clypeus except basally, tegula, most of fore 

 and middle legs, and abdominal markings fulvous; flagellum tinged 

 with fulvous except basally; fore and middle tibiae white externally, 

 their tarsi largely whitish, hind coxa fulvous, infuscate apically; hind 

 femur tinged with fulvous, its tibia with a white subbasal mark and 

 its first two tarsal segments marked with white or entirely blackish; 

 abdomen fulvous or dusky fulvous ventrally and laterally, except 

 that the base and apex are entirely fuscous; apical 0.3 ± of second 

 and third tergites fulvous; apical 0.2 dz of ovipositor sheath white. 

 The para type from Phoenix, Ariz., is smaller and darker than the two 

 specimens from California. Its abdomen is fuscous with a tinge of 

 fulvous laterally. 



Type: 9, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, Calif., April 

 14, 1938, R. M. and G. E. Bohart (Townes). 



Paratypes: 9, Phoenix, Ariz., April 11, 1897, R. E. Kunze (Wash- 

 ington). 9, Yuma, Ariz, or Calif., May 3 to 5, 1918, J. C. Bradley 

 (Ithaca) . 



