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are visible. In nature they would have been laid on separate buds. As 

 may be seen from the picture, the ])etioles of the old leaves parallel the 

 stem for a little distance before the blade curves outward. Near the tip 

 of the branch, where the internodes are short, the petioles surround and 

 protect the base of the apical bud, and it is into this protected zone that 

 the female usually thrusts her ovipositor when laying an egg. 



The Egg. — Echinoid, flattened on top and bottom, micropyle strongly 

 depressed. Ornamentation a reticulation of extremely Jiigh raised lines, 

 broad and losing character by anastomosis at intersections. Interspaces 

 small, deeply sunken, appearing like nearly circular pits. The ornamenta- 

 tion resembles that of the egg of CJu-ysophanus i/ioe or Epideinia 

 epixafiihe more than those of more nearly related species which I have 

 seen (except that of Incisalia Mossi, from which it is practically 

 indistinguishable), and may be identified at once by the absence of bosses 

 and the "pin-hole" interspaces. Fig. 8 micropylar aspect, fig. 9 

 equatorial aspect. Both x 35. 



(To be continued.) 



A NEW SPECIES OF SYNTOMASPIS (CHALCIDOIDEA). 



BY CYRUS R. CROSBY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y. 



Syjiiomaspis thalassifius, n. sp. (Figs. 2, 3 and 4).— Female. — Length, 



excluding the ovipositor, 2.6 mm.; abdomen, 1.2 mm.; ovipositor, i mm. 



Head transverse, abruptly convergent behind the eyes, seen from in 



Fic;. J. —Antenna of male. 



l""iG. •^. — Antenna of Female. 



Fk;. 4.— Stig^mal regfion of wing-. 



front rounded triangular, greenish-bronze, sculpture of head a fine and 

 delicate ridging, which gives a very fine reticulation; face with a few larger 



February, 1908 



