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A contribution to the knowledge of the Platygasterinse and their life 

 history, Kieffer {Centbl. Bakt. [efc], 2. AM., JfG {1917), No. 2^-25, pp. 547- 

 592; aba. in Rev. Appl. Ent., Ser. A, 5 {1911), No. 7, p. 319).— This is a sys- 

 tematic paper with keys to the various genera and species, in which a consid- 

 erable number of species reared from cecidomyiid hosts are described as new. 



[New Ichneumonoidea], A. A, GiBAtrLT {Psyche, 24 {1917), No. 3, pp. 88- 

 102). — Several papers by the author are here presented, namely, The North 

 American Species of Pachy neuron, with Three New Species (pp. 88-90) ; New 

 Miscellaneous Chalcid Flies from North America (pp. 91-99) ; A New Species 

 of the Genus Mymar from the Woods of Maryland with an Important De- 

 scriptive Note (pp. 99, 100) ; A Metallic Species of Cirrospilopsis from Mary- 

 land (p. 100) ; A New Species of Closterocerus from California (p. 101) ; and 

 A New Genus or Subgenus of Pachyneurine Chalcid Flies (p. 102), namely, 

 Propachyneuronia. 



Records are made in the second paper (pp. 91-99) of the rearing of Pachy- 

 neuron virginicum Girault from viviparous females of Aphis sorhi on apple at 

 Blacksburg, Va. ; of Dihrachys clisiocampcc (Fitch) from the larva of the 

 potato tuber worm at Pasadena, Cal. ; of Polynema bifasciatipenne varium n. 

 var., from the eggs of (Ecanthus sp. in Kansas ; of Anaphoidea conotracheli 

 Girault from the eggs of the grape curculio in West Virginia ; of Eutelus 

 betulw n. sp., from Cecidomyia betulw at Albany, N. Y. ; of Aphidencyrtus 

 aspidioti Girault from the oyster-shell scale at Monmouth. Me. ; etc. 



Chalcididae of the wild fig tree in India, Ceylon, and Java, G. Grandi 

 {Bol. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr. R. Scuola Sup. Agr. Portici, 11 {1917), pp. 183- 

 234, figs. 20; 12 {1917), pp. 3-60, figs. 22; abs. in Internal. Inst. Agr. [Rome], 

 Internal. Rev. Sci. and Pract. Agr., 8 {1917), No. 4, P- 664). — This consists of 

 a systematic description of the chalcidids found to occur in the fruit of the 

 tig {Ficus spp.). 



New chalcid flies, with notes, A. A. Girault {Bui. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, 12 

 {1917), No. 4< PP- 86-89). — Among the seven species here described as new are 

 Eurydinota lividicorpus, reared from the pistol case bearer, which occurs in 

 several localities in California, and Euryloma pissodis, reared from Pissodes 

 strobi at Taylors Falls, Minn. 



Eight new species of reared ichneumon flies with notes on some other 

 species, R. A. Cushman {Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 53 {1917), pp. 457-469) .—The 

 species here described as new are said to have been reared by agents of the 

 Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the majority 

 of them to be represented by a considerable series. 



The new species are Bathythrix tibialis, probably a secondary parasite of 

 Ametastegia glabrata at Wenatchee, Wash. ; Aenoplex nigrosoma, Caenocryptus 

 newcomeri, and Chaeretymnia minuta reared from A. glabrata at Wenatchee, 

 Wash. ; Spilocryptus polychrosidis from the grape berry moth at North East, 

 Pa.; ScambVrS ephialtoides from Evetria siskiyouana, at Oolestin, Siskiyou, and 

 Ashland, Oreg., Corlett, Mont., and Crescent City, Cal. ; Itoplectis obesus from 

 the fruit tree leaf roller and bud moth at Wenatchee, Wash. ; and Glypta 

 evetrUe from Evetria taxifoliella from Ashland, Oreg., and Missoula, Mont. 



{Tryptus) Microcryptus osculatus has been reared in considerable numbers 

 from the larvae of A. glabrata at Wenatchee, Wash. ; Aenoplex plesiotypus has 

 been reared from the codling moth at Wenatchee, Wash., and Vienna, Va. ; and 

 A. carpocapsw is recorded as having been reared from Enarmonia caryana at 

 Dewitt, Ga. 



Three new chalcid flies from North America, A. A. Gibault {Buh Brooklyn 

 Ent. Soc, 18 {1917), No. 4, pp. 85, 86). --One of the species here described as 



