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his first report as State Entomologist of N"ew York, published iu 1882, 

 has a rather extensive article upon the same subject, and records peach 

 twigs as damaged at five localities in the State of Kew York, so that 

 the insect is far from being a new pest. The best remedy will be to 

 clip and burn the infested twigs as soon as they are noticed in May. In 

 Professor Comstock's article, before-mentioned, it is said that a Chalcid 

 parasite was bred from this insect. The specimens of this parasite we 

 have had in the Department collection for all these years under the MS. 

 name of Goindosoma variegatum, and in Bulletin 5 of this Division, in 

 which we described a number of species of this genus, this one was 

 overlooked. We take this occasion to submit a formal description : 



Copidosoma variegatum sp. nov. Howard. 



Female. — Length, O.QS"""'; expanse, 2.2™"' ; greatest width of fore- wing, 0.49"'™, 

 Club of antennae flattened, rounded at tip, as long as all of the other funicle joints 

 together; pedicel twice as long as tirst funicle joint. Punctation of head and. 

 thorax as in C. gelechia'. Marginal v^ein of fore-wings entirely wanting. General 

 color black, with brilliant metallic green luster; scape of antenna black, white at 

 tip; pedicel black ; first four fnnicle joints white ; joints 5 and 6 of funicle brown ; 

 club brown ; all coxte metallic ; all femora and tibijB dark brown, white at tips; all 

 tarsi white. 



Described from six 9 specimens, all bred from a single larva of Anarsia lineaiella, 

 which was inflated as are the larv;ti which harbor other species of Copidosoma. — L. 

 O. H- 



TWO ABNORMAL HONEY-BEES. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of France May 23, Mr. 

 H. Lucas exhibited two specimens of the common Honeybee, which 

 were collected near Bordeaux and which were remarkable from the fact 

 that in the one the left eye is small, while the right eye, on the con- 

 trary, is strongly developed and even extends beyond the median part 

 of the front. With the other specimen the exact contrary occurs, and 

 it is the left eye which is more developed than that of the right side, 

 which is plainly smaller. On account of this extremely remarkable 

 anomaly it could be said that these bees, from this character, belong 

 upon the one side to the male sex and upon the other to the neuter. 



KE-APPEARANCE OF LACHNUS PLATANICOLA. 



This year we hav^ noticed an abundance of the large Sycamore Tree- 

 louse, Lachnus platanicola Kiley (fam. Aphididce)^ on the Sycamores, or 

 Western Plane trees, in Washington. A number of trees along the 

 walk bordering the west side of the Capitol Grounds were found infested 

 with them in September, the insects being principally on the smaller, 

 lower branches, clinging in large patches to the bark, while the pave- 

 ment below was stained with the exudations which had dropped from 

 their bodies in such quantities as to form miniature pools on the side- 

 walk. At this time the individuals composing the patches represented 



