XHE GANA.L)IA.N BNTOMOLOGIST. lOo 



ment of Agricultuie, at Wasiiington, and Doctor Ashmead gave them the 

 manuscript name of Copidosoma Lyma/n, n. sp. Dr. Ashmead's ,sad and 

 serious illness has stopped his work surely for a long-time to come, and, 

 at Mr. Lyman's request, I have described the new form, and submit the 

 description as follows : 



Copidosoma Lymani, n. sp. — Female. Length, 0.92 mm.; expanse? 

 2.1 mm.; antenna inserted quite at the mouth corner: cheeks about as 

 long as the eyes ; vertex slightly rounded above eyes ; front well rounded. 

 Facial depression beginning opposite lower third of eye, and continuing 

 somewhat divergently to mouth border ; a median .^carina beginning 

 dorsad with a smooth, elevated tubercle, which is not distinct on its 

 ventral aspect, and widening slightly towards mouth. border. First funicle 

 joint one-third length of pedicel and narrower ; other funicle^joints gradu- 

 ally increasing in length and extremely gradually in width. Face and 

 notum, including tegulae, finely shagreened ; mesopleura faintly striate. 

 Head and mesQiiotum metallic bluish-green ; mesoscutuni brown, with 

 brownish metallic reflections ; mesopleura dark metallic purplish, brownish 

 and bronzy caudally ; antennal scape, dark brown, lighter at extremities ; 

 flagellum dark honey-yellow, darker at joints ; abdomen shining black ; 

 all femora brown ; front tibiie and all tarsi light yellowish ; middle tibiae 

 brown near base ; hind tibise with basal half brown. 



Described from nine specimens. Host, Anacampsis Itipinella. 

 Habitat, Toronto, Canada. Collector and breeder, H. H. Lyman. Type 

 No. 9779, U. S. National Museum. 



CHIONEA VALGA IN MINNESOTA. 



On page 275, August, 1906, Can. Ent., is an article from C. N. 

 Ainslie, of Rochester, Minn., somewhat discrediting the finding of Chionea 

 valga in Minnesota previous to his finding it in December, 1905. 



I am just in receipt of a letter from Prof. J. M.^ Aldrich, in which he 

 says that he has in his collection a specimen ^!of this insect with Dr. 

 Lugger's label on it. Further, that he distinctly remembers seeing, in 

 Lugger's collection, in 188S, at least two more specimens of this insect. 

 It would seem, then, that Dr. Lugger was justified in figuring it in his 

 Second Annual Report, and that it was found in Minnesota previous to 

 1905. 



In making up our report for 1905 on tl:e Diptera of Minnesota, we 

 used a figure found among the cuts here, drawn by Miss Houenslein, 

 which Dr. Lugger evidently intended to use had he lived to carry out his 

 plans. — F L. W.a.shbijrn, State Entomologist, St. Anthony Park, Minn. 



