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of Lipura ; thorax particularly long ; antennas about as long as the head, 

 the three proximal joints about equal, the terminal nearly as long as the 

 others together ; legs short ; the claws without teeth, the inferior claw not 

 dilated at the base ; elater not reaching the vertical tube, the denies twice 

 as long as the manubrium and very slender, the manubrium reaching a 

 little beyond the abdomen ; mucrones with two teeth, the terminal hooked, 

 the second longer and vertical. 



Found in moss in the woods, Orono, Me., April, 1899, by F. L. Harvey- 



Reiiiarks. This species reminds one of /. nival is and a I Mia 

 Packard, but it cannot be either. 



It differs from /. nivalis in having the first tooth of the mu- 

 crone curved, dentes twice as long as manubrium instead of 

 slightly longer, and the manubrium extending beyond the 

 body ; there is no tooth on the inner margin of the superior 

 claw. 



It differs from /. albclla Pack, in not having eye patches, the 

 lower claw is lanceolate and not dilated at the base and the 

 mucrones have only two teeth. 



If our diagnosis is correct, this species would, following Mac 

 Gillivray, be related to /. parva Mac G., from which it differs 

 in color and in having the claw not dilated in the middle. (The 

 second and third antennal segments are dilated at the apex as in 

 this species. ) 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



Fig. i. Achorutes tigrina n. sp., dorsal view. 



Figs. 2-4. Entoniobrya aglis n. sp. 2, side view of the insect ; 3, the foot 

 enlarged showing structure of the claws and the tenent hair ; 4, 

 side view of a mucrone, showing also the coarse hairs at the tip of 

 the dens. 



Fig. 5. Genus? sp. ? side view of the insect. 



Figs. 6-9. Sniynthurus brunneus n. sp. 6, the catch ; 7, dentes and mu- 

 crones ; 8, foot and claws ; 9. side view of the insect. 



COELIOXYS S-DENTATA AND ITS HOST. Although it has been long 

 known that the bee genus Coelioxys is parasitic on bees of the genus 

 M,-^achilt\ yet none of the many American species have been hitherto 

 bred from the cells of the latter, our knowledge of the parasites ha\ in- 

 come from observations on European species. During the past Summer 

 I received from Dr. Henry C. McCook several cells of the leaf-cutting 

 bee, I\Iegachi/e uicndica Cresson, from which there emerged in due time 

 four female host-bees, and one female specimen of Coc/io.vys octodentata 

 Say. WILLIAM J. Fox. 



