92 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
April 26, 1904, a cocoon containing a larva of the same 
species of Hymenopterous parasite above mentioned was 
taken in the same tree from which the earlier collections were 
made, and placed in a breeding vial. June 3 the parasite was 
noted as having pupated, and very nearly reached maturity, 
but beside it, plainly visible through the transparent walls of 
the cocoon, was noticed a small white larva, supposed at that 
that time to be that of a hyperparasite. This pupated soon 
after, and on July 9 was found to have just emerged; a very 
small specimen of Cato genus rufus. 
The larva of the beetle appears, therefore, to be a true external 
parasite, its habits differing in no essential feature from those 
of many species of external Hymenopterous parasites. 
The adult is fairly common throughout the South, and is 
found beneath the loose bark of recently dead and dying trees, 
both coniferous and deciduous. It occurs at nearly all seasons 
of the year, but is especially common during the late fall and 
early spring, and is found hibernating in situations similar 
to the above mentioned. 
Dr. Dyar then presented the following paper: 
A FEW NOTES ON THE STRECKER COLLECTION. 
BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 
The Strecker collection is well preserved at Reading, Pa., 
just as Dr. Strecker left it. All the types are clearly marked 
and are without any admixture of foreign species. Dr. Strecker 
had an excellent eye for species and hardly ever redescribed 
anything that he had in his collection. The ascertainable 
synonyms, therefore, are not very many ; I put a few on record 
here. 
Family NOCTUID^. 
I could not form any judgment on most of the Noctuid 
types without being able to take them away for comparison 
with other collections. The species described under Schinia 
fall both into Schinia and Lygranthcecia on the character of 
the inner claws on the fore tibiae as follows Lygranthcecia: 
imperspicua, dolosa, hanga, ultima, inclara, fastidiosa, nubila, 
siren, and lor a. Schinia: lanul, obscurata, tanena, ar, lobe, 
rubiginosa, approximata, and neglecta. 
Schinia ochreijascia Smith is not a synonym of lanul, but 
an entirely distinct species ; velaris Grote has also been referred 
to the synonymy, but I do not know about it. 
