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dariits ill Europe. In this coumrv, 

 Air. E. A. Schwarz has bred in 

 Alabama, Sphaeropthalma sanbornii 

 Blake, in both sexes, from the cells of an 

 Andrenid, Xomia sp., while Dr. C. 

 V. Riley has bred Sphaerophthal»ia 

 haltcola Blake from the cells of an 

 Anthidium sp. sent liiin from Florida. 

 The Ants comprising the fiimilies 



XXI DORVLIDAE, XXII FORMICIDAE, 



XXIII Odontomachidae, XXIV Pon- 

 ERiDAE, and XXV Myrmicidae, will 

 be treated in a separate paper. 



Family XXVI . Chrvsididae. This 

 family is represented in our fauna by 

 eleven genera and seventy-seven species. 

 It forms a connecting link, through the 

 family Proctotrypidae, with the Hv- 

 menoptera Terebrantia, and the 

 species composing it are among the 

 most brilliant colored of our wasps. 

 Some of the species are said to be 

 '■inquilines" or "guest-flies," others true 

 parasites, but I believe all are genuine 

 parasites. Mocsarv in his recent great 

 work, ''Monographia Chrysididarimi 

 orbis terrarum universi" has brought 

 together, in a tal>ular form, all the 

 records of the rearings of these insects 



and it will be onh- necessary for me 

 here to mention the habits of some of 

 our own species. 



Benj. D. Walsh seems to he the 

 only one in North America who has 

 made a record of the reaiing of a 

 species in this family. In Amer. ent., 

 vol. I (1S6S), p. 135, he records hav- 

 ing bred Chrysis coerulans Fabr. var. 

 bclla Cr. from Ezi?ne?ics fraterna 

 Say. 



In treating of the genus Trvpoxylon, 

 I have already stated having seen 

 Chrvsis vcrticalis Pattn. entering the 

 burrows of Trypoxylon carijiifrons 

 Fox, and this species is undoubtedly 

 parasitic on that wasp. In Florida, 

 I have bred Clirysis coern/ai/s Fabr. 

 and C. perpulchra Cr. from the cells 

 of Pciopaetis cementarinsT)ru\y, while 

 from those of Ody>ieriis guadrisecius 

 Say issued Chrysis densa Cr. 



I have now given a resuini! of the 

 habits of the Aculeate Hymenoptera, 

 arranging the families in what I con- 

 ceive to be their natural sequence, and 

 as the Clirysidiilae terminates the series, 

 my address, already too long, comes 

 to an end. 



FURTHER NOTES ON COLEOPTERA FOUND WITH ANTS. 



BY HENRY FREDERICK WICKHAM, IOWA tlTY, IOWA. 



These records are offered as a con- duuhttul species and are given as addi- 



tinuation of the series begun in the last tional evidence regarding the true state 



volume of Psyche.* Most of them are of affairs. The ants are identified by 



new, either as to the beetle or its host Mr. Theo. Pergande, whose authority 



and the few others relate chiefly to is amply sufficient guaranty as to cor- 

 rectness. Most of the Staphjdinidae are 



♦ Pngcjii. given on the word of Capt. Thos. L. 



