250 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., '19 



The male differs from that of A. nlgnpes in the formation 

 of the antennae and the last portion of the fourth vein is more 

 slender. The female differs in the form of the antennae. Fig. 

 3 is the antenna of the female of nigripes, while Fig. 2, repre- 

 sents that of the female of occidcntalis. 



Asyndetus longipalpis sp. nov. 



$ . Length 3.7 mm. Face wide with silvery white pollen ; front 

 blue-green, the white pollen of the face extends onto the lower half of 

 the front. Antennae black (Fig. 4), third joint broadly rounded at 

 tip, attached to the second at a point near the middle of its upper 

 edge ; palpi nearly as long as the antennae, narrow, black, fringed 

 with black hairs ; upper orbital cilia black, lower whitish, becoming 

 longer below. 



Thorax shining green with bronze reflections and with grayish pollen 

 along the front, which forms quite distinct vittae. Scutellum and sec- 

 ond abdominal segment with strong blue reflections. Abdomen green 

 with quite abundant white pollen ; base of segments three to five 

 blackish, the border of this black color and the base of the second seg- 

 ment coppery. Hypopygium small, in the type with one large bristle 

 (probably there were more but they have been broken off). 



Coxae and femora black with slight green reflections ; fore femora 

 with a row of bristles below; middle femora with long hairs below. 

 Fore and middle tibiae yellow ; hind tibiae blackish ; middle and hind 

 tibiae each with about four bristles above, those of the middle pair 

 the longest. All tarsi blackish. Calypters and halteres whitish, the 

 former with white cilia. 



Wings tinged with brown, especially in front; last section of fourth 

 vein broken near its second third, its last portion being entirely sep- 

 arated from the first; cross-vein nearly opposite the tip of the first 

 vein. 



9. Face a little wider; palpi of the usual form, black; thorax with 

 three narrow coppery vittae on the dorsum ; wings less tinged with 

 brown. 



Described from one pair taken at Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, 

 in March. T\pc in the author's collection. 



Chalcid Travels Through Blackbird (Hym.). 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held Dec. 

 4, 1918, the President, Dr. C. T. Gahan, exhibited a Chalcid, Torymus 

 elegans Borkh., which had emerged from a rosaceous seed which had 

 passed through the alimentary canal of a -blackbird, together with the 

 seed from which it had appeared. (Hnt. Mo. Mag., London, Febru- 

 ary, 1919.) 



