Sept., '05] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Aphodius ruricola Melsh. . . 



rubeolus Beauv. . . 



stercorosus Mehh . 

 Bolboceras lazarus Fab . . . 

 Diplotaxis frondicola Blanch. 

 Anomala undulata Mehh . . 



CERAMBYCIDyE. 



Elaphidion parallelum Newm 

 Heterachthes ebenus Newm. 



CHRYSOMELID.E. 



Diabrotica i2-punctata Oliv. . 

 " vittata Fab. . . . 

 Haltica ignita /// 



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TENEBRIONID/E. 

 Hypophlceus piliger Lee. . . 



MELANDRYID^:. 

 Eustrophus bicolor Say . . . 



MORDELLID^E. 



Mordellistena vapida Lee ... i 



nigricans Melsh . i 



pustulata Mehh . i 



ANTHICID^E 



Notoxus bicolor Say 15 



monodon Fab .... 19 



Anthicus haldemani Lee. ... i 



cervinus Laf i 



CURCULIONID.E. 



Listronotus latiusculus Boh . . 

 Macrops delumbis Gyll . . . . 



sparsus ? Say 



porcellus Say . . . . 

 Eudalus limatulus Gyll . . . . 

 Lissorhoptrus simplex Say. . . 

 Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst 

 " senicuius Lee. 



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Two New Mymaridae from Russian Turkestan. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, M.A., D.Sc. 



Recently, Prof. L,. Berg, Custodian of the Department of 

 Ichthyology, of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, of St. Petersburg, Russia, sent nie two 

 parasitic Hymenoptera for names, taken by him in sweet 

 water, at Syr-darja, Russian Turkestan, which prove to be 

 new species in the family Mymaridae. 



They are without doubt parasitic in the eggs of some aquatic 

 insect, probably in the eggs of Dragon-flies (Odonata), as 

 Polynemse have been bred in the United States by Prof. James 

 G. Needham from the eggs of these insects. 



Genus ANAGRDS Haliday. 



Anagrus hydrophilus n. sp. 9. Length 0.5 mm. Black and shining, 

 the head in front brownish, the mandibles, the legs, except the last joint 

 of the tarsi, and the antennae, except the last joint of the club, pale yel- 

 lowish ; the last joint of the tarsi is fuscous, the last joint of the antennre 

 brownish ; the wings are hyaline longly fringed, with the short marginal 

 vein brown. The g-jointed antennae end in a large ovate single jointed 



