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Sycoryctes is a parasitic fig insect. These insects are interesting, inas- 

 much as they are the first fig insects to be discovered in the PhiUppine 

 Islands. 



Ocencyrtus papilionis, sp. n., Ashm. Fam. Encyrtidse. — Bred in the 

 Observatory Garden This species was bred from the eggs of three 

 distinct species of Papilios, viz.: F. alpenor^ Cram.; P. agamemnon, Linn., 

 and P. rumanzovia, Esch. As many as five and six O. papilionis were 

 bred from each egg. We do not know the exact period. 



Charops papilionis, sp. n. Fam. Ichneumonidce. Sub-Fam 

 Ophioninje. — Bred in the Observatory Garden. This comparatively large 

 species (length, 10.5 mm.) was bred from the larva oi Papilio agamenifion, 

 Linn. The egg was laid in the body of the larva after the second moult, 

 and the caterpillar moulted a third time and was preparing to moult for the 

 fourth time when the parasite reached the vital organs and killed it. 

 When the O. papilionis en-serged it left the shell of the larva perfectly 

 empty. 



NEW SPECIES OF CULICID^. 



BY JOHN A. GROSSBECK, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



The following new species of mosquitoes have been found in New 

 Jersey during the present summer (1905) in the course of the investiga- 

 tion conducted by Dr. John B. Smith. 



Culex pallidohirta, sp. nov. 9 . — Head brown, occiput clothed 

 with yellowish scales and a few dark brown ones intermixed ; antennae 

 brown, the basal joint and basal half of following one dirty yellow ; pro- 

 boscis brown, with whitish scales scattered over the surface save at the 

 apical fourth; palpi brown, tipped with silvery white, four jointed, apical 

 joint minute, flattened, spiny. Mesonotum covered with pale brown 

 scales and with a narrow median furrow obsolete on posterior portion, 

 bounded on each side by scales of a slightly darker colour ; a lateral line 

 of pale yellow scales beginning r|ear the posterior margin and extending 

 to the middle of the lateral margin of the mesonotum also encloses these 

 darker scales ; scutellum pale brown with creamy-yellow bristles on the 

 posterior margin ; metanotum evenly pale brown ; pleura yellowish-brown 

 with patches of whitish scales ; halteres dirty white. Abdomen creamy 

 with a metallic silvery-gray lustre in life, somewhat darker with grayish 



shadings in pinned specimens ; genitalia dark brown. Legs cream 

 coloured, the anterior part of all femora and also anterior part of tibia of 

 fore leg brownish ; the apical two or three joints of fore and mid tarsi 



October, 1905. 



