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mesonotum scarcely as long as wide with the parapsidal furrows distinct 

 only anteriorly; metanotum extremely short, declivous posteriorly. Wings 

 hyaline, nearly bare of pubescence, the venation light brownish yellow, 

 the marginal vein very long, almost the length of the submarginal, the 

 stigmal very minute, scarcely developed, while the postmarginal is only 

 twice the length of the short stigmal. The abdomen is subsessile, oval, 

 shorter than the thorax, subconvex above, boat-shaped beneath, its sur- 

 face delicately, microscopically sculptured with wavy lines, smoother on 

 dorsum towards base ; second segment the longest, with the flap medially 

 emarginated. 



Hab. San Julia, Lower California. Types in coll. Ashmead 

 and coll. California Academy. 



Described from three 9 specimens taken in April, 1889. 



This species comes nearest to Torymus anthomyiez Ashm., but, 

 besides its much larger size, it differs decidedly in its mesonotal 

 characteristics, T. anthomyi<z having entire parapsidal furrows. 



These two species with two or three other undescribed species 

 form quite a distinct group in the genus. 



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ON THE FEMALE OF PAPILIO ELWESII (Leech). 

 By JOHN WATSON, Manchester, England. 



P. elwesii. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1886. Part II." On a collection 

 of Lepidoptera from Kiukiang." 



The description of the female of Mr. Leech's elwesii given 

 below is taken from the first and only female known to science of 

 this extremely rare and handsome species. Mr. Leech's speci- 

 mens of the male (only two of which were viewed) were taken 

 by Mr. Pratt, in Kiukiang in 1887, on the Yangtse River, 500 miles 

 from the coast. The unique female now described was brought 

 from Central China by a captain of a steamboat, and its exact 

 locality is unfortunately unknown. 



P. elwesii 9 Primaries more rounded than male, outer margin wavy. 

 Primaries and secondaries blackish brown with on either side of nervures 

 of primaries and anterior portions of secondaries from base to below the 

 discoidal cell a plentiful supply of gray scales enclosing a black-brown 

 streak in the centre of each internervular space ; a faint blue irroration on 

 upper and under surface of secondaries in the internervular space between 

 the first and second submedian nervulcs and just next the anal ocellus. 

 The posterior portion of secondaries and "tail " faintly glossed with blue 

 a little more pronounced on under surface. The five crescentic marks 

 exclusive of the ocellus at anal angle not so heavy as the male, particularly 



