44 Psyche [April 



C. N. Ainslie, collector. Parasite reared from Panicum coccid." 

 The male club is solid, the funicle joints distinctly longer than 

 wide, with scraggly hairs. There are three Australian species. 



Epanusia albiclava sp, nov. 



Female: Length, 1.20 mm. Dark metallic purple, the fore 

 legs (except the coxse) reddish brown, the middle tibiae and tarsi 

 and the club yellowish white. Head sculptured as in the genotype. 

 Fore wings embrowned from near base to apex and crossed by a 

 broad, naked hyaline band from all of the marginal and as much 

 of the submarginal veins. Oblique hairless line not differentiated. 

 Head bombyciform (as in the honey bee), a distinct carina between 

 the antennae, the scrobes running half way up the face but not 

 joining, the face sublenticular. Axillae slightly separated. Dorsal 

 thorax sculptured and clothed as in the genotype. Marginal 

 vein two and a half times longer than wide, postmarginal vein a 

 little longer than the stigmal, somewhat shorter than the marginal. 

 Fore wings rather narrow for the family but still large. Funicle 

 widest at 2, 1 triangular and longest, widest distad, 6 smallest of 

 the funicle, slightly longer than wide; club cylindrical. Mandibles 

 small, their equal teeth acute. Ovipositor as in Anagyrodes. 



From a female in the U. S. N. M. collection, taken by sweeping 

 in the fair grounds, D. C, October, 1883. Type: Catalogue No. 

 19313, U. S. N. M., the above specimen and a slide bearing a head, 

 fore wing, antenna and portion of a hind leg. 



Epidinocarsis subalbicornis sp. nov. 



Female: Length, 1.50 mm. Dull black, including the venation, 

 the wings hyaline, the antennae distad of funicle 1 pure white ; also 

 the apex of the pedicel obliquely ventro-proximad and a stripe 

 across the scape near its apex. Mesopleurum orange yellow, 

 except at caudal margin. Tegulae white at base. Propleurum 

 whitish. Legs white except hind coxae. Marginal vein a little 

 over twice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal, the post- 

 marginal very short; hairless line closed caudad, rather broad, the 

 wing ciliated proximad of it to base. Pedicel over twice longer 

 than wide at apex, somewhat shorter than funicle 1 which is fully 

 2f times longer than wide and longest. Funicle 6 a third longer 

 than wide. Thorax very densely, minutely scaly and hispid, the 



