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Posterior coxte very large and strongly compressed. Head semi-globose, 



front deeply but sparsely punctate. Antennae of (^ flabellate 



Subfamily Elasminae. 

 Posterior coxiE normal. Postmarginal and stigmal veins rather long. An- 

 tenna of (^ often flabellate Subfamily Eulophinae. 



Submarginal vefn broken, costal cellule narrow', postmarginal and stigmal short, 

 the postmarginal sometimes wandng. Posterior tibiae with a single spur. 

 AntennDe of (^ simple. 

 Submarginal vein with two bristles or it is ornate. Metapleura very small. 



Mesoscutellum with two bristles near the middle 



Subfamily Entedoninae. 



Submarginal vein with from i to 5 bristles. Metapleura triangular, not small. 



Postmarginal vein usually absent. Mesoscutellum with four bristles, all 



behnid the middle, often with two longitudinal impressed lines. Abdomen 



sessile Subfamily Tetrastichinae. 



Tarsi 3-jomted. Pul:)escence of the wings arranged in lines 



Subfamily Trichogramminae. 



Book Notices. 



First Contribution to a knowledge of the Orthoptera of Kansas, by Lawrence 

 Bruner. Washburn Coll. Biol. Survey of Kansas. 1885, pp. 125 — 139. 



Mr. Bruner gives an annotated list of 88 species, of which four are 

 new and described here for the first time. The Hst as such, and the notes 

 are valuable and interesting; but we are sorry to see the description of 

 new species. It has gotten to be too much the fashion in the U.S., 

 among economic Entomologists especially, to describe new species at 

 random and in all sorts of places — agricultural reports — reports of ex- 

 periment stations, agricultural and horticultural papers and sometimes 

 even newspapers. These reports are not known to the great majority of 

 Entomologists, the publications are usually not noticed, or obtainable in 

 the ordinary course of trade, and the descriptions there form a positive 

 hindrance to the advance of the science of Entomology in the less known 

 orders. We do not mean to criticise Mr. Bruner's paper especially, but 

 the evil referred to has already assumed serious dimensions and is grow- 

 ing. Unless something is done to check it, it will soon be necessary 

 that the working entomologist subscribe to every agricultural and horti- 

 cultural paper and get all the Reports of all kinds of surveys, ex- 

 plorations &c. 



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The balance of the Proceedings of the Ent. Club of the A. A.A.S. 



will be published in the next number. 



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Dr. Horn and Mr. Hy. Edwards have donated to the Bkln. Ent. 

 Soc. a small lot of good Coleoptera, which will be sold at auction at the 

 next meeting, Jan. 5, 1886, the proceeds to go to the publication fund. 



