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ASHMEAD 



after noted, honey-yellow, the coxae black, the apices of hind femora 

 and their tarsi fuscous or subfuscous, the tibial spurs and the first joint 

 of hind tarsi at base, yellowish-white. Wings hyaline, the stigma and 

 veins except the subcostal, median and submedian veins basally, 

 brown. 



The abdomen, except the membranous lateral margins of the first 

 dorsal segment and a large translucent or semitranslucent spot on the 

 second ventral segment, is black and shining ; the plate of the first 

 segment is long, narrow, and slightly narrowed towards apex ; the 

 second segment is shorter than the third, has two oblique furrows and 

 its surface is feebly alutaceous, especially along the furrows. 



Male. Differs from the female principally in the color of the legs. 

 The hind femora, base of middle femora and the apical half of the 

 hind tibiae and their tarsi are fuscous ; otherwise, except in the sexual 

 abdominal differences, it is scarcely separable from the female. 



Type. Cat. No. 5704, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Virgin Bay, 

 June 26 ; Farragut Bay, June 5 ; Yakutat, June 21. 



PROTAPANTELES GLACIALIS sp. nov. 



Male. Length 2.1 mm. Black; face and thorax above very finely 

 punctulate, sericeous ; palpi beneath yellowish, above fuscous ; legs 

 mostly black, the front trochanters beneath, their femora beneath and 

 at apex, their tibiae wholly, and their tarsi beneath, apices of middle 

 femora, bases of their tibia?, and the knees of hind legs, honey-yellow, 

 or testaceous. Wings hyaline, the stigma and stigmal vein brown, the 

 internal and basal veins pallid. The abdomen, except the lateral mem- 

 branous margins of segments i and 2 which are brown, is black and 

 shining ; the plate of the first segment is oblong, nearly the same width 

 throughout, alutaceous and subopaque ; while the second segment is 

 shorter than the third, has two oblique furrows aad is finely aciculate. 



Type. Cat. No. 5705, U. S. Nat. Museum. From Muir Inlet, 

 June 12. One specimen. 



PROTAPANTELES ALTICOLA sp. nov. 



Male and Female. Length 2.6 to 3 mm. Black ; mandibles 

 ferruginous ; palpi yellowish ; legs, except the hind coxae and last joint 

 of tarsi, ferruginous, the hind coxae black, the last joint of tarsi fuscous; 

 sometimes there is a dusky or fuscous streak on the middle and hind 

 femora above. Wings hyaline, the tegulae yellowish, the stigma and 

 veins brown. Head and thorax smooth or nearly so, at most with 

 some sparse, microscopic punctures, the face with a median ridge, the 



