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12. Camptoptera pulla Girault. Two females, Compton, Califor- 

 nia. Reared from leaves with Alcyrodes species and Heliothrips fas- 

 ciatus. H. M. Russell, collector. 



13. Camptoptera saintpierrei Girault. The type is on a slide in 

 the United States National ^^luseum. Catalog No. 19188. The spe- 

 cies was described in the Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, III. 



14.. Gonatocerus dolichocerus Ashmead. The fore legs are all 

 pale yellow. 



15. Gonatocerus dolichocerus ashmeadi new variety. 



Female. — Length, 1.15 mm. The same as the tj-pical form but funicle 

 I is longer, somewhat longer than the pedicel, twice longer than wide 

 and the legs are all light lemon yellow except the dark hind tibiae 

 (hind femora dusky distad in the typical form, rest of legs yellow). 



The male has a very short scape, not twice longer than wide; pedicel 

 a little wider than long; funicle i is shortest, somewhat longer than 

 wide, 2 nearly twice longer than wide, subequal to the following, the 

 club joint a little shorter, all longitudinalh- striate. 



Described from three males, one female labelled "No. 965. 

 Ooctonus homalodiscae Ashmead, August 14, 1904." The 

 host has been published. 



Types. — Catalogue No. 19189, United States National ^lu- 

 seum, the above specimens on a slide. 



16. Polynema striaticorne Girault. Two females, Hagerstown, 

 Maryland, July 21, 1912. \Vebster No. 5967. 



A. Polynema striaticorne boreum new variety. 



Differs from the typical form in having the scape all black, the body 

 black not brown-black, funicle i is as long as 4 or 5 (4 longer than i 

 in striaticorne, 5 still more so) and the wings are somewhat smaller 

 but not greatly (funicles 4-6 increase in length in the typical form but 

 here they are subequal). Also, the cephalic femora are wholly black 

 (mostly yellow in striaticorne} . Differs from consobrinus in having 

 the wing longer and the discal ciliation somewhat finer; also funicle i 

 is longer. The species britfaniim has shorter wings and the general 

 coloration is brown, the cephalic tibiae lighter. 



Described from one female taken by sweeping wheat, De- 

 cember 29, 1914. W. 8844, C. N. Ainslie, Elk Point, South 

 Dakota. 



Type. — Catalogue No. 19190, United State National Mu- 

 seinn, the specimen on a slide. 



