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metathorax rounded, faintly areolated ; scutellum elevated, smooth, red 

 on the disc ; legs not very stout, posterior femora but slightly swollen • 

 wings large, hyaline, stigma pale-yellow, areolet rhomboidal ; abdomen 

 polished ; apex of segments one and two narrowly margined with red ; 

 ovipositor exserted, red, sheaths black. 



Described from one 9 captured some years ago, and differs 

 abundantly from /. Carolina, Ashm. 



Mesoleptus nigricornis, Prov. (Add. Faun. Hym. 99), must be 

 removed to the genus Ctenopelma. The type which is in my collection 

 has the claws so distinctly pectinate that I do not see how this character 

 was overlooked. I have a second 9 taken shortly after the first one was 

 described. 



PiMPLA ELLOPLE, n. sp. — Female, length 10 mm.; black with red 

 abdomen ; face coarsely punctured, with feeble smooth ridge below 

 antenn;^, which are long and slender ; thorax shining, punctures shallow ; 

 legs black, anterior femora and tibiae with pale line, anterior and middle 

 tarsi rufous, base of posterior tibite and the tarsi piceous ; abdomen 

 red shining ; punctures fine ; ovipositor half as long as abdomen. 



Male, length 8 mm.; posterior femora red, and abdomen slightly 

 darker and not so polished as in the $. 



Described from one $ and one $ received from Mr. Fletcher, who 

 bred them from pupae of Ellopia somniaria from Victoria, B. C. (See 

 report of Experimental Farms, 1890, page 177.) 



OUR WINTER BEETLES. 



BY H. F. WICKHAM, IOWA CITV, IOWA. 



Though the winters of Iowa are quite severe, there are, nevertheless, 

 always a few days when the weather is moderate enough to admit of the 

 entomologist getting out for a few hours work at his favourite pursuit. 

 When the sun comes out and the snow disappears in sheltered spots, a 

 little investigation will yield much that is of interest, and throw considerable 

 light on the habits of many of our insects. 



Among the Carabidae to be found in February may be mentioned 



