THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 89 



Dryomyza pallida, sp. nov. Polished, pale yellow, bristle of the 

 antennje slender, sparsely pubescent with black near the base, thorax 

 striped, wings pubescent, hyaline, first longitudinal vein clothed with hairs. 

 Long. corp. 8 mm. Long. al. 8 mm. 



Pale yellow, shining. Front deeper yellow, opaque, with the short 

 pubescence and bristles black. Antennie incumbent, reddish ; second 

 joint short, third about twice as long as wide, oval ; bristle slender, the 

 distal end bare, the proximal sparsely pubescent with black. Thorax yel- 

 low, with two narrow median stripes of a brownish tinge ; on each side 

 and posteriorly there are about ten black bristles. Scutellum with four 

 black bristles. Pleurae with narrow distinct brownish lines extending 

 from the root of the wings to the humeri ; just below and in front of the 

 tegul^e is a small oval black spot. Abdomen pallid, yellow, and darkened 

 toward the tip, shining, covered with rather long, fine black hairs. Legs 

 pale yellow, with black hairs ; last two joints of all the tarsi black ; tip of 

 middle tibial, and first three joints of middle tarsi, with a short brush of 

 golden pile. Wings pubescent, hyaline. The first longitudinal vein 

 distinctly hairy, the tiiird bare ; posterior transverse vein straight and per- 

 pendicular ; both transVerse veins bordered with black, as is also more 

 narrowly the termination of the fourth longitudinal. 



Hab. Connecticut, May. 



This species is easily distinguished from the other American species 

 already described by the hairy first longitudinal vein. 



My thanks are due to Dr. S. \V. Williston for tlie examination of his 

 excellent collections in this family. 



ON A GIGANTIC CHALCID FLY INHABITING FLORIDA. 



BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



In the spring of i88o, while collecting Coleoptera, I secured a % 

 of a large species of Chalcid belonging to the genus Stnicra, which is 

 apparently unknown to the scientific world. 



The specimen was captured on an oak shruli, in close proximity to an 

 empty polyphemns cocoon. Could it have hatched from it? This is nor 

 improbable, as Prof. C- V. Riley's Sinicra i/iaruc was bred from this moth. 



