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segments i, 2 and 3 bright rufous, the rest black with the penultimate 

 wliite. Terebra black, thick, very nearly as long as the body. 



^ — With palpi and four anterior coxse and trochanters pale, no white 

 patch on the penultimate segment of abdomen. Vancouver. 

 This species is easily distinguished by its coloration. 



BRACONID^. 



Phylax pacificiis, nov. sp. 



% — Length, .35 inch; terebra about the same length. Brown ferru- 

 ginous ; the head, the pro and mesothorax with the last segments of the 

 abdomen, black. Antennas black, long, setaceous. Head large, produced 

 behind the eyes ; vertex convex. Metathorax ferruginous, punctured. 

 Wings infuscated. Legs ferruginous, all the tibiae with a small pale ring 

 near the base. Abdomen finely aciculate on the first segment and the 

 basal half of the second, the other ones polished, shining. Terebra 

 black, of the same length as the abdomen. Vancouver. 



Phylax niger, nov. sp. 



^ — Length .23 inch. Black, with a whitish pubescence. The head 

 much produced behind the eyes. Antennae long, slender, setaceous. 

 Wings slightly infuscated, the nervures black. Legs rufous, coxae, tibiae 

 and the extremity of crura black. Abdomen elongate, black, the first 

 segment with the basal half of the second aciculated. Vancouver. 



ENTOMOLOGY BY THE ELECTRIC LAMP. 



BY PROF. E. W. CLAYPOLE, AKRON, O. 



During the past winter an installation of about 100 arc-lamps was es- 

 tablished at Akron, O. They hang as usual over the middle of the street. 

 Early in the summer it was evident that they would afford a fine hunting- 

 ground for the entomologist, and accordingly several members of the 

 Natural History Society of Akron resolved to turn the opportunity to ac- 

 count by making collections of the insects attracted by the light and com- 

 paring and noting the results. 



