46 BULLirriN 45, united states national mijseim. 



not or Si-arcely longer, iK^rfoetly sinootli and shiny, with ;« tine sparse 

 pnboscence. 



The S nieasnres searcely l./i""", and ditlers from tlie 2 as follows: 

 The head is more rounded; the liaj;ellar.i(»ints are a little lonjjer than 

 wide, Avhile the abdomen is shorter and more nearly oval, or short 

 ovate. 



Habitat. — VVasliinfjt<)n, 1). (J., and Lafayette, Ind. 



Types in Coll. Ashmead. 



I first reare<l this species from raisins infested with iSilranns suri-' 

 namens is -.mil other Coleoi)tera; subsecjuently Prof. F. M. AVebster sent 

 me several specimens which he reared in Indiana from ISilmnun snri- 

 namensis infestiuy stored grain. It comes <piite ch)se to A. Fomferi 

 Kirch., of Europe, but differs in being perfectly sniooth, impunctured. 



APENESIA Westwood. 



Thes. Ent. Ox., j). 170. Tiaiis. Ent. Soc. LoiuL, 1«81, p. 130. 



(Tyi>e .1. amazoniva Westw.) 



(PI. ni, Fiji. 4, 9.) 



Head large oblong or subquadrate, flattened; eyes in 5 minute and 

 composed of only a few hexagons; ocelli wanting; clypeus anteriorly 

 trituberculated ; in the S the eyes are normal and the ocelli are 

 present. 



Antenna; 13-jointed, short, the tirst joint long, the s**cond a little 

 longer than the third, the following short ; in the S the flagellar joints 

 after the second are a little longer. 



Maxillary palpi deformed, 4-jointed; labial palpi 3-jointed. 



Mandibles slender, curved, armed at apex with two large teeth. 



Thorax in ? elongate, the prothorax large, suboval; mesothorax 

 short, the dorsum subcordate ; metathorax oblong, contracted near the 

 base, the angles rounded ; in S elongate, the pronotum very long, nar- 

 rowed anteriorly, the mesonotum with one distinct furrow, the meta- 

 thorax quadrate. 



Wings in S similar to Epyrin, the stigma very minute, the radius 

 very long and slender. 



Abdomen in 9 elongate oval, in $ ovate. 



Legs in $ short, thick, fossorial, middle tibise compressed and spin- 

 ous, the anterior tibia; terminating in two spurs and the basal joint of 

 the tarsus is lunate and armed on the under side with a row of very 

 fine short bristles; the middle legs, on the contrary, are very robust, 

 the tibiae strongly serrated on the outer mi^rgin and the spurs finely 

 spined; in the middle legs the tarsi are longer than the tibite and have 

 the under side of the three basal joints finely spined. 



The slender, bidentate mandibles and 4-jointed deformed maxillary 

 pal]>i,sufticiently distinguish the female of this genus from other wing- 

 less genera. The male, which is here described for the first time, comes 

 nearer to the genus DisHomjthalu« than to any other, but the mandibles 



