THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 57 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE APHIDID^, BY JULES 

 LICHTENSTEIN, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE. 



BY J. T. MONELL, BONNE TERRE, MO. 



Judging by the first volume of this work, which I have lately received, 

 it will prove of great value to American students of this difficult family. 

 The first volume is illustrated by a number of finely colored plates, and 

 Mr. Lichtenstein promises in his preface to use all such funds as he may 

 obtain from subscribers to the work, in illustrating the second volume — 

 thus practically making subscribers a present of the text. While the 

 monograph will deal more particularly with European species, many notes 

 will be given comparing nearly allied American with European forms. 



Considering Mr. Lichtenstein's eminence as an Entomologist, and the 

 many years he has devoted to this family, this work can not fail to receive 

 a hearty welcome from the Entomological public. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CHALCID, PARASITIC ON 

 MANTIS CAROLINA, Say. 



BY WM. H. ASHMEAD, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. 



Sub-fam., Torymin^. 

 Podagi-ion Spinola. 

 Podagrion mantis, n. sp. 



$. Length. 1 5 inch; ovip., .14 inch. Dull metallic green, finely 

 punctate and sparsely covered with short, whitish pubescence ; antennae 

 and legs dull yellow ; flagellum brownish above, all coxje metallic green , 

 sculptured, posterior ones large, tips of feet black. The posterior femora 

 are greatly swollen as in the Chalcidinte, armed with about eight large 

 teeth, brown at sides but brassy along upper surface, pubescent, tibiae 

 greatly curved; abdomen metallic green variegated with brown, com- 

 pressed and shaped as in the ichneumon genus Ophioii ; wings hyaline, 

 veins brown, marginal and post-marginal veins long, stigmal vein short, 

 thick. 



Described from one female specimen bred from ^gg mass of Mantis 

 Carolina Say. This is an interesting discovery, and the first species of the 

 genus to be described in our fauna. 



