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In every case the broods were found in the base of the plant, 

 just beneath the ground. The plants were, as a rule, either dead 

 or dying from the injury. It would, therefore, appear that the 

 species chooses a great variety of host-plants. 



I have also found that this species does not necessarily kill the 

 plants attacked, for I find their galleries near the heart of living 

 sassafras bushes of considerable size, where the entrance is cov 

 ered over by a number of annual growths of wood. 



Mr. Heideman laid before the Society a fine series of Ly- 

 gczus turcicus lately collected by himself in the vicinity of 

 Washington, D. C., and which conclusively proved that the ex 

 tent of the bifid red spot on the vertex as well as the color of the 

 claws, which may be either entirely black or red anteriorly, are 

 quite unstable characters. In a recent paper (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Belgique, 37, 1893, P- 399) Mr. A- ^" Moiitandon had maintained 

 that L. turcicus Fabr. and L. kalmii Stal were two good 

 species, but distinguished the same solely by these color differ 

 ences. The series exhibited rendered it quite evident that the 

 two forms could not be separated specifically. Prof. Uhler and 

 Mr. Distant had also arrived at the same conclusion. 



Mr. Ashmead stated that his study of the coloration of these 

 forms had led him to the same conclusion, which Prof. Riley 

 further sustained from his own observations. 



Mr. Ashmead exhibited a large and handsome Chalcidid, 

 which he stated was a species described more than 100 years ago 

 by Fabricius as Chalets cyaneus, but which had been lost to 

 science until he had very recently recognized it among some Bra 

 zilian material. He stated that the species belongs to the- genus 

 Chryseida Spinola, and that Westwood had also described two 

 species belonging to this genus, but had failed to recognize their 

 true affinities, and had erroneously placed them in the subfamily 

 Perilampinae, instead of in the subfamily Eurytominae, in which 

 they properly belong. He stated that the species bears some 

 resemblance to the genus Axima. 



Mr. Howard quite agreed with Mr. Ashmead in the refer 

 ence of this genus to the subfamily EurytominaB, and stated that 

 its intermediate position between the subfamilies Aximinae and 

 Eurytominas furnishes a connecting link between these subfami- 



