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got many rare moths, many tropical Sphingids for his own collec- 

 tion, and half a dozen times a year he can fill a six-quart pail with 

 Tropisternns triangularis or Benacus griseiis to go to some college 

 for biological class room work at, perhaps, $20 a pailful. This 

 seems worth while. 



There is something even more worth while. Love of the 

 great "all out-doors" is its own reward. The world needs more 

 Fabres, more Thoreaus, to transmit knowledge gained by keen 

 and constant observation. For every hundred present casual 

 observers there should be a hundred thousand. The things to 

 see, to ponder over, are infinite. No Sunday afternoon "movie" 

 show has a fraction of the interest of ten square yards of vacant 

 city lot. There is no neglected, tangled corner in swamp or fallow 

 field that does not teem with life, that does not afford far more 

 profit to him who seeks patiently than the fabled Five Thousand 

 Dollar Butterfly. 



DESCRIPTION OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES OF 

 CHALCID FLIES. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, GLENNDALE, MD. 



- (Continued from page 103.) 



Thymus, new genus of Tetrastichini. 



Genotype — Encyrtiis albocinctus Ashmead. 



Encyrtus chionaspidis Howard. 



Genotype of Adelencyrtus Ashmead. Frons subprominent, 

 moderate in width. Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth truncate, 

 vet with a concave apex. Marginal vein thrice longer than wide, 

 the postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal, each about two- 

 thirds the length of the marginal. Funicle 6 a little wider than 

 long, 1 twice wider than long. Antennae pale yellow, the pedicel 

 above and distal club joint dusky. Fore wings very finely ciliate. 

 Face much in flexed. Thorax dorsad flattened. Cheeks as long 

 as the eyes. Runs very close to Epiencyrtoides Girault. The coxae 

 are white. The caudal femur and the flagellum are concolorous 

 Scutellum with somewhat rougher sculpture' than the scutum. 

 Axilhe very narrow, not quite meeting. Small. From the , types 

 in the U.S.N. M. '"'.*"'- , 



April. 1916 



