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below wing base and another on the posterior surface of mid coxa. 

 Posterior margin of abdominal segments narrowly browned; ovi- 

 positor glossy brown black. 



Frons with two rows of four bristles and in front of those a 

 single pair situated close together on middle- of frons; lower pair of 

 bristles, represented in A. wheeleri Brues, absent; third antennal 

 joint very large, reaching as high as vertex, conical; arista brown, 

 terminal, pubescent, slightly shorter than third antennal joint; 

 palpi large, the surface bristles very minute. Mesopleura bare; 

 mesonotum with one pair of dorso-centrals; scutellum M'ith two 

 marginal bristles. Second abdominal segment elongated, 2-3 

 bristles on lateral margins; sixth segment elongated and with a few 

 short posterior hairs; o\-ipositor elongate-conical, four times as 

 long as its basal width. Legs normal; hind tibia with 10-11 pos- 

 tero-dorsal setulae. Wings with costa to middle; first division as 

 long as 2-|-3; third about one-third as long as second; angle at fork 

 of third vein obtuse; costal fringe twice as long as diameter of 

 costal vein; fourth vein gently arcuated, leaving at fork of third, 

 and ending distinctly in front of wing tip. 



Length, 1.5 mm. 



Locality: Plummer's Island, Maryland, June 8, 1913 (W. L. 



Macatee.) 



CARNEGIE SCHOLARSHIP IN ENTOMOLOGY. 



Mr. John D. Tothill, B. S A., a graduate of the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph, nas been awarded the Carnegie 

 Scholarship in Entomology in order to enable him to take a 

 year's post graduate course at Cornell University. The value of 

 the scholarship is $625.00 and includes travelling expenses. 

 These scholarships are somewhat similar in character to the 

 Rhodes scholarships at Oxford and are intended to enable qualified 

 young men in various parts of the British Empire to spend a year 

 in study at some University in the United States. Mr. Tothill is 

 a field agent of the Division of Entomology at Ottawa, and is at 

 present carrying on investigations under the direction of Dr. 

 Hewitt, in the work, of .parasites of the Brown-Tailed Moth in 

 N. B., his headquarters being at Fredericton. 



