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ments more or less wrinkled or shagreened, while the flagellum is 

 longer, filiform, the joints being cylindrical, subequal in length, about 

 thrice as long as thick. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5672, U. S. Nat. Museum. From St. Paul Island, 

 August 22; Belkofski, July 7 (Fur Seal Commission). Fifteen 

 specimens. 



HYPOLEPTUS GLACIALIS sp. nov. 



Male and Female. — Length 2.5 to 3 mm. Polished black ; palpi 

 brownish or fuscous ; mandibles, a minute annulus at base of flagel- 

 lum, sutures of trochanters and the second joint, knees and base of 

 tibiae yellowish, remainder of legs black or brownish-black; tegulae 

 and bands on venter yellowish- white. Wings hyaline, the costal vein 

 to the parastigma black or piceous black, the stigma and internal veins 

 brown. 



The antennae are long, 22-jointed (rarely 23-jointed) ; the flagellum 

 except the annulus at base of first joint is brown-black, the first three 

 or four joints subequal, about thrice as long as thick. The metathorax 

 is about one and a half times as long as wide, feebly alutaceous towards 

 apex, smooth at base above and with a distinct apical transverse carina. 

 The abdomen is elongate, longer than the head and thorax united, 

 polished, except the first and second dorsal segments which are acicu- 

 lated along the lateral margins ; the second has also two oblique fur- 

 rows or impressed lines. 



Type. — Cat. No. 5673, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Muir Inlet, 

 June 12. 



Genus Neuroteles Ratzeburg. 

 NEUROTELES DUBIOSUS sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 4.2 mm. Polished black ; two spots on face superi- 

 orly just beneath the antennae, the labrum, mandibles, sutures of tro- 

 chanters and the second joint, knees of front and middle legs, base of 

 hind tibiae, and the front and middle tibiae and tarsi, pale yellowish ; 

 front and middle coxae beneath brownish ; palpi pale ; tegulae, epi- 

 tegulae, the longitudinal veins in front wings basally, and more or less 

 of the ventral fold yellowish-white. 



The antennae are 2 8- jointed; the flagellum is brown-black, with the 

 first three or four joints subequal, about 3^^ times as long as thick. 

 The metathorax is smooth and shining, except apically and laterally 

 where it is alutaceous or finely, irregularly wrinkled, the pleural carina 

 being faintly indicated posteriorly. The abdomen is elongated and 

 narrowed, twice the length of the thorax, the sides to near the apex 



