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Parasite on Magdalis. A new species of tlie Hvmeno- 

 pterous genus Calyptus (Braconidae) parasitic on Magdalis 

 olyra belonging to the Coleopterous family Curculionidae : 



Calyptus magdalis Cresson. — <J ?. Shining black ; base of antennas, 

 palpi, tegulae, and legs, yellowish-testaceous; face and sides of thorax thinly 

 pubescent; raetathorax rugose; wings hyaline, faintly dusky at tips, stigma 

 and nei'viii'ds black, the, litter yellowish at bi>e; tip^ of tarsi and sometimes 

 the posterior tibia3 behind, fuscous; abdomen polished, depi-essed, first 

 segment longitudinally aciculated; ovipositor of the female as long as the 

 abdomen. Length 3.5-5 mm. 



Hab. — Massachusetts. (Mr. Samuel Henshaw.) E. T. Cresson. 



Hymenopterous Insect from Stems of the Black Rasp- 

 berry. A new species of the Hymenopterous genus Dlomorus 

 (Chalcididae), hatched from the nest of Crahro stirpicola Pack., 

 in the stems of the black raspberry : 



DiOMORUS zabriskii Cresson. — ?. Bright metallic green, varied with 

 shades of blue; antennae black, base of scape testaceous; thorax confluently 

 punctured; wings hyaline, faintly dusky at tips; legs green or blue, tibia; 

 fuscous or black, base whitish, as is also base of tarsi, posterior femora with 

 a short tooth beneath near tip; abdomen smootli, polished, green changing 

 to brilliant blue or purple in certain lights; ovipositor rather longer than 

 abdomen. Length 5 mm. 



Hab. — New Baltimore, Greene Co., New York. (Rev. J. L. Zabriskie.). 



E. T. Cresson. 



A Cardinal Grasshopper. Last autumn ])r. Joseph Leidy of Phila- 

 delphia, sent me a specin)en of Phylloptera rotundi/olia Scudd., taken 29 

 Aug., on Sharp Mt., Schuylkill Co., Penn., which was of a vermillion hue. 

 At first I supposed the color was due to the use of the cyanide bottle in 

 killing the insect, but it seems that Dr. Leidy was attracted by the color 

 and kept the Phylloptera alive in a jar for nineteen days, during which it 

 ate morning glory (Convolvulus) leaves, drank drops of water and laid eggs 

 loosely in the jar. The insect differs in no respect from ordinary speci- 

 mens of this species excepting in color, the entire body even to the ovipos- 

 itor (which is usually brown in the normally gi'pen specimens) being of a 

 uniform hue, which after drying has become somewhat embrowned. 



Samuel H. Scvdder. 



Prionus prolific. In July 1877, I examined the abdomen of a 

 female Prionus laticoUis, and found therein 332 eggs ; in August 1878, I 

 found in another female 597 well-formed eggs, besides some soft bodies 

 which may have been undeveloped eggs. B. Pickmav Alann. 



