198 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



ADDITIONS TO "A LIST OF FAMILIES AND SUBFAMILIES OF 



ICHNEUMON-FLIES OR THE SUPERFAMILY 



ICHNEUMONOIDEA (HYMENOPTERA)." 1 



Since publishing the first list of additions to the above I have come across 

 the following: 



Brachycyrtinae new subfamily name=(Proterocryptini Cushman, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 55 (543) 1919. 



[( Prolerocryptus) Brachycyrtus nawaii Ashmead, etc.] Roman 1915 (5, 6) 

 regards this as a member of the Ophioninae nearest Cremastinae but with 

 characters in common with Hellwigia and Banchus, Cushman 1919 1. c. re- 

 gards this as a member of the Tryphoninae, nearest Sphinctinae. 



Merolidinae new subfamily= (Merolidini Brethes), between Ambly- 

 telinae and Listrodrominae. 



(Merolides Brethes.) 

 ( Mimagathinae Enderlein)=Stantoninae new subfamily name. Between 

 Bassinae and Sigalphinae. 



(Stantonia Ashmead and Mimagathis Enderlein) . 

 Orgilinae new subfamily, between Blacinae and Leiophroninae. 

 (Orgilus Haliday and Hymenochaonia Dalla Torre; . 

 Orthognathellinae Szepligeti, between Phaeogeninae and Alomyinae. 



(Orthognathella Szepligeti) . 



— Henry L. Viereck. 



A FORMER RECORD OF THE HEATH HEN (TYMPANUCHUS 

 CUPIDO) AT WASHINGTON, D. C. 



I have recently met with an apparently unrecorded specimen of the Heath 

 Hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that was secured at Washington, D. C, on 

 April 10, 1846, by Dr. Alex. McWilliams. This specimen, No. 12,567, U. S. 

 National Museum, was entered in the Catalogue of the Division of Birds, 

 Vol. 3, July 19, 1859. The bird was mounted, and sent to the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences in 1870, and was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871. 

 As Professor Baird was extremely accurate in his entries of localities, and 

 as, at that early date, it was extremely unlikely that the bird could have been 

 taken elsewhere and sent to Washington, it would appear that the Heath 

 Hen should be added to the list of birds of the District of Columbia. The 

 A. O. U. Check List, Third Ed. 1910, 143, gives the range as "Formerly 

 southern New England and parts of the Middle States." The records of 

 the Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus a. americanus) as given by Kirkwood, 

 The Birds of Maryland (Trans. Md. Acad. Sciences, 1895, page 296, and 

 Ridgway, Forest and Stream, Vol. 24, pp. 204 and 248) were from birds 

 obtained in the west and liberated in Kent County by Colonel Edward 

 Wilkins, early in the winter of 1885 or 1886. The range of the Heath Hen 

 should therefore be extended as far south as the District of Columbia. 



— B. H. Swales. 



iProo. Biol. Soc. Washington, 31 (69-74) 1918. 



