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also in the European species the fourth funicle joint is shorter 

 and thicker than in enocki and the antennal club much stouter, 

 comparatively enormous. The fore wings differ very much in 

 shape, having a pronounced curve in enocki but nearly straight 

 in cynipsens and more slender. The caudal wings are more 

 similar but they are dusky and spotted with white in cynipseus 

 and appear to lack the line of discal cilia along one margin, 

 bearing only the midlongitudinal line of discal cilia. Also in 

 tynipseus the tarsal joints are longer. Another difference is 

 that the scape of the European species along each margin is 

 serrated, each serration giving origin to a seta ; this is espe- 

 cially true of the outer margin but probably the whole surface 

 of the scape is roughened, seen thus only in outline at the mar- 

 gins. In cynipseus, the strigil is strong. The two species 

 agree, or nearly, in other points but enough has been said to 

 show that they are very distinct from each other. 



SUBFAMILY MYMARINAE. 

 Tribe Anaphini. 

 Genus Anaphes Haliday. 

 1. Anaphes punctum (Shaw) Haliday. 



I have as a loan a single female specimen of a mymarid 

 which has been identified by an English entomologist (E. A. 

 Fitch — See Enock, Trans. Ent. Soc, of London, 1909, p. 450), 

 as the above species and transmitted to Dr. L. O. Howard, by 

 Mr. Fred. Enock, of London. It will be of value to point out 

 how this species differs from the American species so far 

 known and described. It is most closely related to hercules 

 Girault but is brown instead of black and differs structurally 

 from that species in having both wings somewhat broader and 

 the proximal tarsal joints of the intermediate legs distinctly 

 longer. Otherwise, they are very much alike. However, both 

 appear to be good species. The British species does not re- 

 .semble closely any of the other American forms of the genus 

 with the possible exception of pratensis Foerster which, as I 

 have published elsewhere, is a member of our fauna, providing 

 my identification be correct. The species punctum differs from 

 pratensis in being different in color, brown instead of black and 

 structurally in possessing differently shaped antennae; thus, in 



