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markings of the mature larva, but it also varies somewhat in depth of 

 colouring. 



The most constant of all is the larva of illecta, which at any stage 

 after the first day or two may be recognized by its black and white, narrow 

 and transverse stripes, its broad, white stigmatal stripe, and the spots, like 

 red sealing-wax, which ornament each segment. 



We bred over one hundred illecta this year, and noted no variation in 

 either larva or imago. 



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NEW SPECIES OF EVANIID^. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, ASSISTANT CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF INSECTS, 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mr. J. Chester Bradley has begun, in the May number of the 

 " Entomological Student," a monographic revision of the Evatiiidce of 

 North America, a work badly needed by our students. 



On learning from me that I had several new species in this family, he 

 has requested that I should publish them at once, so that they may be 

 incorporated in his monograph, which will be published in the Transactions 

 of the American Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 



I begin, therefore, by publishing three new species in Abbe 

 Provancher's rare genus, Pammegischia, a genus suppressed by Dr. 

 Schletterer, but revived in my classification of the superfamily 

 Ichneumonoidea. 



It is interesting to record that the habits of this genus are quite 

 different from other Evaniids ; Dr. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist of New 

 York, having bred a species from the larvae of a horn-tail Xiphydria 

 Provanc/ieri, Cresson. 



Mr. Bradley has done me the honour to accept my ideas on the 

 classification of the Evaniidce, but has been unfortunate in not paying 

 more attention to the characters used in separating the genera, for he has 

 placed in the genus Aulacus species which should be placed in Abbe 

 Kieffer's genus Pristaulacus, viz., Aulacus occidentalis, A. melleus, A. 

 pacificus, A. rufttarsis, A. fasciatus, A. firmus, A. resutorivorus, A. 

 Abbottii, A. stigmaterus and A. pallipes. 

 Pammegischia xipliydrice, sp. nov. 



? . — Length, 7.5 mm.; ovipositor about two-thirds the length of the 

 abdomen. Black, with the first segment of abdomen red, the second 



