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The Secretary read the following note, submitted by Mr. T. 

 D. A. Cockerell : 



INSECTS IMPALING THEMSELVES. 

 By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



While the insects impaled on thorns by shrikes are familial- 

 objects, it seemed to me, when the subject was under discussion, 

 that the probabilities of an insect ever impaling itself must be 

 very slight. Therefore, it seems worth while to bring before you 

 a couple of instances just communicated to me by eye-witnesses, 

 whose veracity I do not in the least doubt. Mr. C. W. Alexan 

 der tells me he has seen the big lubber grasshopper which is 

 common in this region impale itself on the sharp leaf of the 

 broad-leafed Yucca at the Gold Camp, near the Organ Mountains. 

 Mr. R. E. Condit, when driving by Coats Creek, in S. W. 

 Colorado, found numbers of large black crickets which, in their 

 haste to escape from the feet of the horses, jumped against the 

 cacti lining the road, and many of them were impaled on the 

 spines. 



The following paper was presented by Mr. Ashmead : 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW HYMENOPTEROUS PARA 

 SITES ON CANARSIA HAMMONDI (RILEY). 



By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



The descriptions of the following new species were drawn up 

 some two years ago at the request of Prof. S. A. Forbes, of the 

 Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, to accompany an 

 article by Prof. W. G. Johnson, on the habits of Canarsia 

 hammondi, and represent only a small proportion of the para 

 sites reared from this moth. 



FAMILY ICHNEUMONID^E. 

 Spilocryptus Thomson. 



Spilocryptus canarsise, sp. n. [Fig. 4.] 



r^. Length 6 mm. Head and thorax black, shining, clothed with a 

 sparse whitish pubescence, the thorax rather closely punctate, with dis 

 tinct parapsidal furrows, the head almost smooth, with some minute punc 

 tures on cheeks ; face, except two black lines extending forward from base 

 of each antenna, the clypeus, except the extreme apical margin which has 

 a medial emargination, the mandibles, except the teeth, mouth-parts, ex- 



