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terior margin of mesonotum, the anterior margin of tegulae, a spot on tlie 

 large dilated scale in front of tegula, a spot on the anterior margin of 

 mesopleura, hind margin of axillas and scutellum, stripe beneath the an- 

 terior and middle femora, the tips of all femora, and the anterior face of 

 tibiae, a spot at base ofvhind tarsi, the posterior margin of first abdominal 

 segment dilated laterally, bands on margins of segments 2 to 5 interrupted 

 medially, and two spots on the sixth segment, all lemon-yellow. The 

 lateral middle of the yellow abdominal bands are all emarginated by a 

 quadrate or quadrilateral black spot. The hind coxae beneath are armed 

 with a small whitish spine. Wings hyaline, the marginal cell and the 

 apices broadly fuliginous. 



Allied to A. parvum and A. simile Cr. 



Torymus anthidii n. sp. 9- — Length 1.75-2 mm.; ovipositor nearly as 

 long as the abdomen. Dull bronzy green, finely sericeous, the collar an- 

 teriorly and beneath bluish. Head and thorax finely shagreened; scape 

 and tibiae brownish yellow, tarsi whitish, the hind tibiae, except tips, 

 sometimes embrowned; coxae and femora metallic; flagellum brown, the 

 joints, except the conical last joint, all wider than long. Head transverse, 

 very little wider than the thorax, antereo-posteriorly not very thick, flat 

 behind the eyes; viewed from in front almost round, not longer than wide, 

 the frons with a slight antennal impression; eyes large; ocelli subtriangu- 

 larly arranged, the lateral closer to the margin of the eye than to the front 

 ocellus; mandibles ferruginous; antennae inserted a little below the middle 

 of the face. Thorax a little more than twice as long as wide, the parap- 

 sidal furrows distinct, but not deep or sharply defined; scutellum convex, 

 longer than wide, rounded posteriorly, the axillae a little nearer to each 

 other than their width at base; metanotum very short, without a median 

 carina, the spiracles very minute, round. Wings hyaline, the veins brown- 

 ish yellow, the postmarginal vein twice as long as the stigmal, the mar- 

 ginal vein one-half longer than the postmarginal. Abdomen short, sub- 

 compressed, viewed laterally it appears nearly as deep dorso-ventrally as 

 it is long, the first body segment is fully two-thirds as long as the whole 

 abdomen, the second segment as long as the third and fourth united, the 

 fourth being longer than the third, while the following segments are short. 

 Described from several 9 specimens, reared by Dr. A. David- 

 son, from the cells of a bee, Anthihiuin consimile. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^. 



By John B. Smith, Sc.D. 



(Continued from vol. vi, p. 340.) 



Acronycta pyralis n. sp. PI. xv, fig. i.* — Ground color a very dark 

 powdery gray; head and thorax without distinct markings, but the tip of 

 the collar grayish and the patagiae indefinitely black margined. The pri- 

 * The references are all to Plate XV in the December number of Volume VI. 



