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Male. — Length, 0.78 mm. — The same. Caudal segment of abdomen 

 obtusely rounded, the abdomen itself less stout. 



Antennae 7-jointed, short, with a scape, pedicel, a ring-joint, i-jointed 

 funicle, and a 3.jointed club. Scape long, cylindrical, tinged above with 

 dusky, nearly twice the length of the pedicel ; the latter obovate, smaller 

 than the funicle joint, but about equal to it in length. Ring-joint nearly 

 as broad as the funicle joint at base, difficult to distinguish. Funicle joint 

 nearly globular, slightly longer than broad, subequal in length to the 

 pedicel. Club ovate, or subconical, its base somewhat rounded, the 

 longest joint of the flagellum, but not as long as the scape ; hispid, indis- 

 tinctly 3-jointed, apparently solid, the middle joint the largest. 



From three specimens. 



Supposedly bred from the eggs of Anthonomus qvadri'gibbus 

 Say, in the fruit of Cratcsgus, sent in by Mr. J. H. Beattie 

 from Fort Valley, Georgia, in connection with the Deciduous 

 Fruit-insect Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, June 12, 1905. Probably, 

 however, from some I^epidopterous &%^ found concealed under 

 the calyx end of the fruit. Occasional. 



Type.— No. 8942, U. S. N. M. 



There is some uncertainty in regard to the geiieric position 

 of this species, and finally it may prove to be the type of a new 

 genus. 



In structure, the antennae apparently disagree with any of 

 the known genera. 



Gonatocerns anthonomi sp. nov 



Female. — Length, 0.83-087 mm., 085 mm., avg. — Head and thorax 

 piceous black, shining, the abdomen suffused with brown, piceous along the 

 sides and towards apex, its basal segment lighter in color. The front of 

 the head with a distinct inverted V-shaped marking of pale, reaching from 

 a point on the vertex to the lower inner margin of eye. The margins of 

 the eyes pale. On the thorax, there is an oblique longitudinal pale streak, 

 distinct or indistinct. Legs honey yellow, excepting the whole of the 

 middle of the femora, the posterior femora, the coxze, portions of basal 

 joint of trochanters, and most, if not quite the whole, of the tibiae, except- 

 ing the anterior tibiae, all of which are blackish. Tips of the tarsi darker. 

 Antennae dull reddish brown with some black, excepting the scape and 

 pedicel, which are yellowish, tinged with blackish along the upper edges. 



Head deeply concave along the face ; eyes and ocelli dark. Thorax 

 impunctate, faintly shagreened, about as broad and stout as the abdo- 

 men. Abdomen pointed, subsagittate ; the first segment faintly striate, 

 with a round fovea at base ; the middle segments about ecjual. Wings 



