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trees or trees whose flowers are adapted to carrying on the sub 

 sequent generations of the fig insects. 



Dr. Ashmead asked Mr. Schwarz if these Cuban figs belonged 

 to one of the species found in Florida. Mr. Schwarz replied 

 that he did not know. Dr. Ashmead stated that there are three 

 kinds of wild Ficus in Florida. Mr. Schwarz asked Dr. Ash 

 mead whether the species of Blastophaga could be determined 

 from male specimens. Dr. Ashmead replied that they could. 



Mr. Barber exhibited some hymenopterous cocoons which 

 he had found at Williams, Arizona, in 1901. He said that the 

 cocoons were beaten from oak shrubs and were observed to be 

 capable of making jumping movements. Their jumping capacity 

 amounted to about one-fourth of an inch. After consulting the 

 literature Mr. Barber found that they belong to the genus 

 Limneria and that at an early period, viz., by GeofTrov at the 

 beginning of the last century, the jumping habits of the cocoon 

 had been observed. Dr. Ashmead then said that Limneria be 

 longed to the Ichneumonid tribe Campoplegini, containing some 

 sixty-five genera, all members of which have cocoons of this kind. 



Mr. Benton stated that the Japanese had just translated into 

 their own language the bulletin on the honey bee published by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture.* A copy of the translation 

 was passed around for inspection. 



Dr. Ashmead reported that a collection of nearly 20.0 species 

 of Japanese parasitic Hymenoptera had recently been received 

 by the IT. S. National Museum from Dr. S. Matsumura, Agri 

 cultural College, Sapporo, Japan. The collection contains 

 many interesting forms. f 



Mr. Banks exhibited a specimen of the Neuropteron Man- 

 tispa viridis. This species was described by Walker from 

 .eastern Florida, and Hagen, who had never seen it, thought that, 

 owing to its green color foreign to other known Mantispidae 

 it must have been a manufactured insect. But the receipt by 

 Mr. Banks of a specimen from Florida, collected by Mrs. A. T. 



*Bull. No. i (N. S.), Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric. The Honey Bee : A 

 Manual of Instruction in Apiculture. By Frank Benton, M. S. Wash 

 ington, 1896. 



\See Descriptions of New Hymenoptera from Japan. I. By William H. 

 Ashmead. Journ. N- Y. Ent. Soc., xn, No. 2, pp. 65-84, June, 1904. 



