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Habitat. Ute Pass, El Paso County, Colorado. Mr. F. C. 

 Craighead, Collector. 



Type. Cat. No. 22000, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Described from a single female recorded under Bureau of 

 Entomology No. Hopk. U. S. 11919 and reared from material 

 collected by Mr. Craighead. The larvae of this species was first 

 collected by Mr. A. B. Champlain and George Hofer, March 2, 

 1914, under bark of dead limb of partially dead Limber Pine 

 (Pinus Jiexilis) but no adults were reared. September 10, 1917, 

 Mr. Craighead collected from the same tree a number of half 

 and full grown larvae under the green bark of slowly dying branches, 

 from which the type was reared May 3, 1918. 



I take great pleasure in naming this interesting species after 

 Mr. George Hofer in appreciation of his active and continued 

 assistance in collecting material which has added very much to 

 our knowledge of the coleoptera of the Rocky Mountain region. 



PALMODES PRAESTANS AND ITS PREY (ORTH.). 



BY A. N. CAUDELL. 



In a miscellaneous lot of Orthoptera sent me for determination 

 by Prof. Lovett, of Corvallis, Oregon, was a large male specimen 

 of the long winged Dectician, Capnobotes fuliginosus Thomas. In 

 spite of the large size of this insect and its formidable nature, 

 being itself, at least partially, predatious in habits, it had fallen a 

 victim to a medium sized wasp which Mr. Rohwer has determined 

 as Palmodes praestans Kohl. The data on the pin bearing these 

 insects is "Brads Mt. Ariz. 6-22-92." 



This matter is deemed worth recording by reason of the 

 nature and size of the prey it shows this wasp capable of captur- 

 ing, the length of the wasp scarcely exceeding one-third that of its 

 prey. The wasp itself is also of interest, as it is an insect very 

 rare in collections, the present specimen being, according to Mr. 

 Rohwer, about the fourth one known. 



Actual Date of Publication, February 26, 1919. 



