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portion black, fourth and following dorsal segments black, ovipositor 

 protruding beyond the tip of the abdomen to a distance equal to about 

 one-half the length of the latter. Three female paratopotypes, one 

 with fourth dorsal abdominal segment partly reddish laterally, a fourth 

 female paratopotype about 4 mm. long. Male, 5 mm. ; antennae 28- 

 jointed; all coxae and first joint of trochanter of all legs black, the 

 latter at least mostly so, second, third and fourth tarsal joints of hind 

 legs pale, whitish, fifth dorsal abdominal segment black except at base, 

 sixth and following dorsal segments also black ; 2 male paratopotypes, 

 one of which is about 3.5 mm. long, has the fifth and following dorsal 

 abdominal segments black and the hind tarsi fuscous, except the third 

 and fourth joints, which are partly pale. 



Types No. 12282, U. S. National Museum. 



Type locality, Summerdale, Calif., Hopk. U. S. 443ob2, 

 443ob, 443obi. 



Abies concolor (H. E. Burke, reared), Hopk. U. S. 4449h, 

 4449b, September 8, 1906, on tent (H. E. Burke). 



Sphecodes (Sphecodes) macfarlandi n. sp. 



Female. 9 mm. Differs from lantus* apparently only as follows : 

 Tegulae testaceous anteriorly, blackish posteriorly, dorsal abdominal 

 segments with impunctate apical borders, red of abdomen very dark, 

 blackish. 



Type No. 12276 U. S. National Museum. 

 Type locality, Nelson, New Hampshire, one specimen (col- 

 lected by Prof. Joseph McFarland). 



I HAVE RECENTLY been making some exchanges in Lepidoptera with 

 American correspondents and have just had a trying experience. I 

 sent a couple of boxes of insects to a friend by post, but the postal 

 authorities refused to deliver unless duty was paid, and this was not 

 ^Tinaturally declined, and in the end the parcel having been opened 

 was returned to me, on which I had to pay a re-direction fee amount- 

 ing to more than the original postage. But the evil of it all lies in the 

 fact that it was most carelessly packed and that in a large box of 

 butterflies there is not a single specimen undamaged, nearly all of 

 them being completely smashed. They were rare exotic butterflies, 

 many from remote parts, most difficult to obtain. Is there no remedy 

 to be obtained in a case like this? Yours faithfully, G. T. BETHUNE- 

 BAKER, Edgbaston, England. 



*As described by Lovell, 1907 Psyche (101-104). 



