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then the attitude of a female insect ovipositing. As has been mentioned, 

 if the hole is large enough the abdomen will be fully inserted, and it is 

 perhaps possible that copulation may take place while the female is yet in 

 the burrow. On emergence she is instantly seized, the legs of the male 

 clasping the yet unfolded wings with the abdomen, and thus preventing 

 her from flying. From the large number of males always about at this 

 season, it is probable that the female seldom, if ever, emerges unattended. 

 After the very brief honeymoon, she is no longer an attraction to the 

 opposite sex, and is able to proceed unmolested with her work of deposit- 

 ing the germs of a future generation. I may add that of the pair con- 

 fined by me the male died the same or following day, while the female 

 was strong and vigorous until she unadvisedly entered a cyanide bottle. 



STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONID^, Part 3. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



(Continued from page 156.) 



The following species are very interesting, as they possess no spurs at 

 the end of the tibias. From N. America are four species, two not yet 

 described. All agree in the following characters : They are very slender, 

 more or less hairy or villous ; head small, narrow ; antennee long, as long 

 as head and thorax, or at least prothorax, stout, cylindrical, becoming 

 gradually thicker but not clavate ; labial palpi a little longer than the 

 maxillary ones ; last joint very little thickened to the middle, where a 

 superior depression makes the apical half about cylindrical ; legs short, 

 not very thick, with numerous spines and bristles, but no spurs ; first 

 joint of tarsi longer than the following, but shorter than the apical one ; 

 abdomen of male considerably longer, of female shorter than the wings ; 

 appendages of male short approximate, cylindrical with strong hairs and 

 spines, enlarged at the base to reacli the dorsum of abdomen ; between 

 them below a very small triangular plate ; female with two short flat 

 appendages inferiorly ; upper part rounded, split in the middle ; wings 

 elongate, narrow, enlarged to the bluntly pointed tip ; post-costa oblique ; 

 venation dense, and sprinkled more or less with brown ; costal space of 

 front wings with two series of areoles (one species) or with one series, 

 but the transversals in the apical half (or less) forked ; at the extreme 



