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four hours later, when the screams of the little girl called her mother to 

 the scene. The child had picked up the pretty abdomen of the wasp and 

 had received a severe sting to pay her for her curiosity. The abdomen 

 at this time seemed thoroughly alive. How much longer it would have 

 retained its power to sting, had it not been destroyed, I am unable to say. 



STINGING POWER OF ICHNEUMON SUTURALIS. While collecting a few 

 days since a female /. suturalis lit upon a bush just in reach of me. With 

 a quick sweep of the hand I caught it, and held it, while, with the other 

 hand, I got out my cyanide bottle. As I was about to bottle my capture 

 I received a thrust in the palm of my hand that led me to suspect that in 

 my haste I had mistaken a wasp for an Ichneumon, and I quickly dropped 

 it. The culprit was recaptured and proved to be, as stated above, /. 

 suturalis. The sting was like the thrust of a pin, there being no swelling 

 of the part and no pain after the first two or three seconds. 



I had, previous to this, watched Ichneumons in their attempts to sting 

 while holding them in my hand, but this is the first time that one has 

 really succeeded in producing anything like a sting. C. P. GILLETTE. 



Identification of Insects ( Images) for Subscribers. 



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EUGENE R. FISCHER. i, Episcopus ornatus; 2, Proconia sp. (coii- 

 fluens?\, 3, Proconia (confluensf); 4, Stenarops malinus; 5, Xysins 

 calif ornicus. 



^O. S. WESTCOTT. r, Ccendvympha ochracea; 2, Rheitinaptera hastata; 

 3, Melipotis sp. ; 5, Megachile latimatnis; 6, Sparnopolins fulrus; 9, 

 Scatophaga stercoraria; 10, Scatophaga squalida; n, Dendroctomts sp.; 

 12, Dendroctonus sp. 



F. S. DAGGETT. i, Chalcophora virginicnsis; 2, Rhaginin lineatitni; 

 3, Cryptns nunrius; 4, Buprestis fasciata; 5, Hannouia ij-gnttata; 6, 

 Coccinella monticola; 7, Coccinella transversoguttata; 8, Hannouia 12- 

 maculata; 9, Hippodamia parenthesis; 10, Hannouia picta; n, Pogono- 

 cheriis i)ii.\-tns; 12, Hippodamia ij-punctata. 



Kntomological Literature. 



TRANSACTIONS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY LONDON. Part 3, 1890. 

 On the structure of the terminal segment in some male Hemiptera, In 

 Dr. David Sharp. On the classification of the Pyralidina of the European 

 fauna, by E. Meyrick. Additions to the -Cicindelidoe fauna of Mexico, 

 with remarks on some of the previously recorded species, by Henry 

 Walter Bates. A Catalogue of the Rhopalocerous-Lepidoptera collected 



