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over, good structural characteristics also, especially of the middle 

 segment. 



15. PEPSIS CINNABARINA R. Luc. 



Pepsis cinnabarina R. Lucas, 1. c., 804, 9, 1895. 



Mexico : Lower California ; California: Coulterville (Lucas), 

 San Diego. The wings in this species are fiery red. 



The following paper was read by Mr. Ashmead : 



NOTES ON PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, WITH DESCRIP 

 TIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES. 



By Dr. GEORGE DIMMOCK, Springfield, Mass., and WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, 

 Washington, D. C. 



PART I. NOTES ON PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. 

 By Dr. GEORGE DIMMOCK. 



The following notes concern parasitic hymenoptera, mostly 

 reared species, for the identification of which I am indebted to 

 Mr. W. H. Ashmead, whose article accompanying this paper 

 will describe the species that proved to be new, and which are 

 indicated by a * against the abbreviation Ashm. 



The data which pertain to each species are fragmentary, as 

 many of the parasites were the accidental results of attempting 

 to rear their hosts. Dates of emergence, and locality, are of 

 some importance, and are quite fully noted : the locality N. H., 

 in all cases, signifies Canobie Lake, a village about five miles 

 north of the state line of Massachusetts, between the towns of 

 Windham and Salem, in Rockingham county, New Hampshire. 



The numerals in parentheses refer to my manuscript notes, 

 and correspond with numbers on the specimens preserved. 



FAMILY PROCTOTRYPID^E. 



(1) Telenomus dimmocki, *Ashm. One lot reared from 

 eggs of a hemipteron (possibly Podisus sflinosus), found 20 

 July, 1885, at Arlington, Mass. ; parasites emerged 24 July. A 

 second lot of the same kind of eggs, found in N. H., 10 July, 

 1892, gave parasites 14 July. (702. 958.) 



(2) Telenomus sphingis, Ashm. From egg of Telea poly- 

 phemus, Belmont, Mass., 4 Aug., 1883. (536.) 



(3) Helorus paradoxus, Prov. Reared from a chrysopid 

 larva taken 20 July, 1885, in Arlington, Mass. ; this larva pu 

 pated 28 July, and from the pupa the parasite emerged 20 

 Aug. (709.)' 



