184 W. H. ASHMEAD. 



cepting small spot in centre, the petiole, the abdomen, excepting a V-shaped 

 blotch at base and along anterior margin of first segment, base of third, and 

 slightly along sutnres of other segments, the four anterior legs, the posterior 

 coxae beneath, and the posterior femora, excepting teeth and a blotch on disk 

 connected slightly along teeth with a small blotch at apex and base of tibise, 

 lemon-yellow. The swollen femora are armed with rows of seven short, stout, 

 conical teeth. 



JTrtfe.— Asheville, N. C. 



This beautiful species aj)proaches neare.st to Smicra Nortoni Cress., 

 and has a lemon-yellow line before eacli ocellus as in that species, but 

 the lower margin of cheeks are not narrowly margined with black, 

 the discal spot on scutellum is not large, the metathorax is black, and 

 its apex is not yellow ; the coxae, the femora and abdomen are, too, 

 ditierently colored, and there are only seven teeth. 



I had confounded this species with S. Nortoni, but the characters 

 pointed out will easily separate it. 



CHAL,CIS Fabr. 



5. Chalcis pedalis Cress. 



A single specimen of this species was taken in beating net last 

 summer. It agrees pretty well with Mr. Cresson's description, ex- 

 cepting its abdomen is not black, but dull rufous, and I have grave 

 doubts as to its being that species. 



6. Clialcis ovata Say. 



A single specimen of this insect was bred last sunnner from the 

 squash vine borer Eudioptis hyaliiiata Linn. 



H.4L.TICELL,A Spiuola. 



7. Haltioella .-tanticles Walker. 



One specimen, captured last August, agrees perfectly with Mr. 

 Walker's description for a transcript copy of which I am indebted 

 to Mr. Samuel Henshaw, of the Boston Natural History Society, and 

 I desire to express my thanks thus publicly to this gentleman, to 

 Dr. George Dimmock, of Cambridge, and to Mr. E. T. Cresson, of 

 Philadelphia, for courtesies of a simihxr character. 



The species also seems to agree with Islv. Howard's Halticella 

 americana, the only real difference between the two descriptions, that 

 I can find, is a slight one of size. The two are evidently identical. 



8. Halticella onatas Walker. 



I reared a single specimen of this species from the cynipidous oak 

 gall Dryophanta poUta Bassett, in March, 1886. It agrees perfectly 



