l^t Cannt(iii(| mntomola^fet. 



Vol. XXIX. LO NDON, FEBRUARY, 1897^ No. 2._ 



THE REV. THOMAS W. FYLES, F. L. S. 

 We have much pleasure in presenting to our readers the excellent 

 portrait of our colleague, the Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, who has been for 

 many years an active member of the ^Entomological Society of Ontario. 

 Though living at South Quebec, he has regularly attended the annual 

 meetings at London, travelling many hundreds of miles in order to do so, 

 and has invariably delighted those present with his excellent papers. He 

 was a member of the Council from 1SS2 to iSSS, when the change in the 

 Act of Incorporation required the directors to be resident within certain 

 districts of the Province of Ontario. Three times he has represented the 

 Society as their delegate to the Royal Society of Canada at Ottawa, and 

 he has been a member of the editing committee of the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist since 1889. While filling the arduous position of chaplain to 

 the immigrants landing in Canada, under the auspices of the Society for 

 Promoting Christian Knowledge, he devotes any spare moments that he 

 can get to the study of entomology. He has succeeded, with an energy 

 and enthusiasm worthy of admiration, in forming an extensive collection of 

 insects, and acquiring a knowledge of the science beyond what is ordi- 

 narily met with. That he may long continue to carry on his excellent 

 work, both in his official position and in his scientific pursuits, is the hearty 

 wish of all his friends. 



A PARASITE OF HEMIPTEROUS EGGS. 



P.Y T. D. A. COCKERELL, MESILLA, N. M. 



The following description is offered of an insect to which I shall 

 have occasion to allude in a forthcoming Bulletin, wherein such descrip- 

 tive matter would be inappropriate. 



Hadronotus inesilhe,n.%^. — $ . Length slightly over i mm.; black; 

 coxaj black, legs otherwise rufous. Antennae dark rufous, arising just 

 above mouth, delicately pubescent ; pedicel oval, shining, punctured, 

 conspicuously shorter than the long first flagellar joint ; second flagellar 

 joint shorter than the first, but fully twice as long as broad ; third to fifth 

 joints oval, shorter than the second, the third slightly longer than the 



