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L/ELIUS Ashm. 

 L. trogodermatis Ashm. Reared from "Trogoderma tarsale." 



CEPHALONOMIA Westw. 



C. hyalinipennis Ashm. Reared from "Amphibolips cinerea," "Holcaspis 

 omnivora" and "Hypothenemus eruditus." 



NEOSCLERODERMA Kieff. 



N. tarsalis Ashm. Reared from "Silvanus surinamensis." 



PRISTOCERA Klug. 

 P. armifera Say. Avalon VII, 27 (Hk). 



Family CHRYSIDID/E. 



These are the "cuckoo bees," so called because they lay their eggs in 

 the cells of other bees and wasps, their larvae depriving the rightful owner 

 of food if they do not actually eat it first. They are of a brilliant metallic 

 blue or green, with a very firm chitinous outer surface, which is often 

 deeply punctured or otherwise sculptured. The abdomen has only a few 

 visible segments, the others being in the form of a retractile tube, at the 

 end of which the small sting is formed. Some of the species are said to 

 be true parasites of saw-flies. 



OMALUS Panz. 



O. iridescens Nort. Should be found in New Jersey. 

 O. sinuosus Say. Trenton V, 20 (Hk). 

 O. laeviventris Cress. Manumuskin VI, 11 (Dke). 



NOTOZUS Forst. 



N, marginatus Patt. New Jersey probably. 

 N. viridicyaneus Nort. "New Jersey" (U S N M). 



HEDYCHRIDIUM Perrin. 

 H. dimidiatum Say. Philadelphia (Jn) and surely in New Jersey. 



HEDYCHRUM Latr. 



H. obsoletum Say. Riverton VII, 5 ( Jn) ; Cape May VIII, 9 (Dke). 

 H. violaceum Brulle. Camden, Gloucester Co. VII, 15, Anglesea IX, 4 

 (Fox); Manumuskin VI, 23 (Dke). 



CHRYSIS Linn. 



C. perpulchra Cress. Camden Co. VII, 12 (Fox). 



C. verticalis Patt. Chester VII, 3 (Coll); Riverton VII, 31 (Jn). 



