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the third ; the joints of the funicle are slender, subcylindrical, the first 

 being fully twice as long as the second, the following very impercep- 

 tibly shortening to the club ; the scape is obconical, about one-third 

 longer than the pedicel. The scutellum, along the sides, is delicately, 

 longitudinally aciculate, the cup being very narrow, ellipsoidal ; the 

 metathorax is smooth and shining, or at the most, faintly alutaceous 

 and bicarinate. 



Male. — Length 1.5 mm. Agrees well with the female except that 

 the antennae are longer, 15-jointed, with the first joint of the flagellum 

 long and stout, slightly curved, and about as long as the second and 

 third joints united, the following joints being nearly equal, about thrice 

 as long as thick and all strongly fluted. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5523, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul Is- 

 land, August 15 (Fur Seal Commission). Described from one male 

 and three female specimens. 



Genus Eucoela Westwood. 

 EUCGELA ALASKENSIS sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 2 mm. Polished black ; the mandibles, the an- 

 tennae, except the scape and pedicel, and the legs, except more or less 

 of the middle and hind coxae, rufo-testaceous, the femora somewhat 

 obfuscated toward base ; wings hyaline, pubescent, the veins reddish- 

 brown, the marginal cell completely closed, tegulas piceous black. 



The first two joints of the flagellum are cylindrical, subequal, a 

 little more than twice longer than thick, the following joints gradually 

 thickening toward apex, elliptic-oval, delicately fluted, and subequal in 

 length, except the last, which is considerably longer than the penul- 

 timate. The scutellum at the sides is opaque, finely rugulose, the 

 cup oval, with its disk slightly depressed, a fovea posteriorly and a 

 row of minute punctures along its margins. The metathorax above 

 and posteriorly is finely regulose, faintly pubescent and bicarinate, its 

 pleura being smooth and polished. Abdomen normal, a little longer 

 than the head and thorax united and with a narrow pubescent girdle at 

 base. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5524, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Seldovia, July 

 2. One female specimen. 



Subfamily ALLOTRIINy^. 



Genus AUoxysta Forster. 



ALLOXYSTA ALASKENSIS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length i to i . i mm. Polished black ; the face below the 



antennae, cheeks, mandibles, palpi, antennae and legs, pale yellow, the 



