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six oblong spots ; the same spots and lines are visible on the under side 

 of the wings. There are two white spots on the secondaries ; a triangular 

 one near the base, divided by two or three black lines, and another trans- 

 verse spot similar to, but smaller than that on the primary, also divided 

 by black lines, making five or six oblong spots ; the lowermost is only a 

 small point. 



The above remarks on the male, together with Kirby's description of 

 the female, now published in No. 8, Vol. xi., Can. Ent., will doubtless 

 serve to make this rare Alypia better known. The illustrations were made 

 by my esteemed brother entomologist, G. J. Bowles, of this city. The 

 figures are so accurate that the student need not refer to the description. 

 However, there being a distinction in the markings of the sexes, reference 

 must be made to Kirby's description in order to determine them. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMONID^E. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 

 MlCROGASTER TJTILIS, n. sp. 



Length .11 of an inch. Head, thorax and abdomen of the males 

 uniform black, the females the same with the exception that the under side 

 of the second and third basal joints of the abdomen are tawny. Antennae 

 fuscous, somewhat rufous at base. Legs and feet tawny, rather pale, the 

 knees of the hind pair dusky, the most so in the males. Wings hyaline ; 

 costa, stigma and veins fuscous, except the two extending from the sub- 

 stigmatal cells to the outer margin, which are hyaline; Ovipositor par- 

 tially exserted. All parts of the body, wings and antennae, moderately 

 covered with a very short whitish pubescence, to be seen on the wing only 

 with the aid of the microscope. 



The cocoons are compact, except a little loose silk round the outside 

 usually only partially surrounding the dense portion. When spun the 

 most of them are detached from the caterpillar in which the larvae have 

 been parasites, and they are not placed together in any regular order. 



Described from 1 1 males and 4 females reared from the larva of Sphinx 

 ( Macros ita) Carolina, and 5 males and 7 females reared from a larva of a 

 species of La/cania. 



