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formally donated his collection to the trustees, reserving to 

 himself the custody of the Geometridae and certain Pyradid 

 families so long as he should need them in his work. The 

 Rhopalocera and Heterocera, exclusive of the groups above 

 mentioned, were transferred to New Brunswick in 1891, be- 

 coming the nucleus of the collection at present in the institu- 

 tion there. 



For George D. Hulst, the Entomologist, his work will 

 speak ; for the man all those who, having known, loved him. 



J. B. SMITH. 



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Some Hymenopterous Parasites from Dragon-fly Eggs. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



FAMILY L,XXI 



HYPERTELES Forster. 



(i) Hyperteles polynemae n. sp. 



5. Length 3 to 3.5 mm. ^Eneous black, impunctate, the pronotum, 

 the mesonotum and the metanotum with a brassy tinge. Metathorax 

 with a median carina. Abdomen greatly elongated and produced into a 

 long, slender point. Scape, pedicel and legs, except the last joint of tarsi 

 which is fuscous, uniformly brownish-yellow ; flagellum dark brown, or 

 brown-black, pubescent. Wings rather long, hyaline and with a delicate 

 marginal cilia, the veins yellowish, the marginal vein very long, nearly 

 twice the length of the subcostal vein ; the stigmal vein short, about one- 

 third the length of the subcostal. Abdomen very long, fasiformly pointed, 

 more than three times longer than the head and thorax united. 



<j\ Length 1.3 to 2 mm. In color quite variable and difficult to dis- 

 tinguish from males in the genera Tetrastic hus and Tetrastichodes. The 

 scape, pedicel and legs are always brownish-yellow ; the scape being 

 rather large, subcompressed ; the flagellum long, dark brown, and 

 clothed with short hairs. Some specimens have the head, except the 

 mouth parts, the thorax and abdomen, entirely aeneous black or blue- 

 black ; others have the whole face below the antennae and the head be- 

 hind yellow ; others have most of the head, except the vertex, the thorax 

 at sides and beneath and a large spot on the mesonotum, including some- 

 times the scutellum, yellow ; while still others are almost wholly yellow 

 above, except the metanotum. The abdomen in all is elongate, always 

 distinctly longer than the head and thorax. 



Hab. L/ake Forest, Illinois. 

 Type. Cat. No. 5322, U. S. N. M. 



