32 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '14 



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The Twentieth Australian Species of Elasmus 

 (Hym. t Chalcidoidea). 



By A. A. GIRAULTV, Nelson (Cairns), N. Q., Australia. 

 The following species was captured in North Queensland 

 with the sweeping net. 



Elasmus doddi new species. 



Female. Length, 2 mm. 



In my table of species of the genus (Memoirs Queensland Museum, 

 Brisbane, I, 1912, pp. 188-189), running to formosus Girault but differ- 

 ing in having the scutellum wholly black (except narrowly at middle 

 of the side), the vertex wholly yellow, the tip of postscutellum black. 

 Head and scutum with thimble punctures, the scutellum scaly. Legs 

 pallid yellow, the posterior coxae narrowly black at upper edge, the 

 antennae dusky yellow, with two ring joints. Pronotum very narrowly 

 black along cephalic margin, the dorsal half of occiput black. 



(From one specimen, 2-3-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch & 

 Lomb.) 



Male. Not known. 



From one female captured at Nelson (Cairns), North 

 Queensland, April r, 1913, by Mr. Alan P. Dodd for whom the 

 species is named as a recognition of his early promise. 



Habitat : Australia Nelson, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 



specimen on a tag. 



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A new Wasp from Colorado (Hym.) 

 By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of Colorado. 

 On June 26, 1913, when collecting bees at Longs Peak Inn, 

 Colorado, in the Canadian Zone, I captured a wasp which I 

 could not at first determine generically. On close investigation, 

 it proves to belong to Dryudella Spinola, based on a species of 

 Southern Europe. According to Kohl, Dryudella is a subgenus 

 of Astata, but the venation is so peculiar that I think it may 

 well rank as a genus. My species is new, and I take pleasure 

 in naming it after Mr. Enos Mills, the well known writer on 

 the natural history of Colorado, resident at Longs Peak Inn. 



Dryudella mills! n. sp. 



$ Length, about 7 mm. ; head, thorax, legs and antennae black, the 

 anterior tibiae dark reddish brown on inner side except apically ; pubes- 

 cence very scanty, pale, black in region of mouth ; abdomen with the 

 first two segments (except base of first), and sides of third basally 

 to some extent, bright ferruginous ; the rest of abdomen black ; head 



