Sept., '05] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Aphodius ruricola Melsh. . . 



" rubeolus jff<fa«z;. . . 



" stercorosus Melsh . 

 Bolboceras lazarus Juid . . . 

 Diplotaxis frondicola Blanch. 

 Anomala undulata Melsh . . 



CERAMBYCID.E. 

 Elaphidion parallelum Newm 

 Heterachthes ebenus Newm. 



CHRYSOMELID^. 

 Diabrotica 12-punctata Oliv. . 

 " vittata /•'ad. . . . 

 Haltica ignita /// 



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TENEBRIONID^. 

 Hypophloeus piliger Lee . . 



MELANDRYID^. 

 Eustrophus bicolor .Say . . 



MORDELLID^. 



Mordellistena vapida Lee ... i 



" nxgncRtis Afelsh . i 



" pustulata Melsh . i 



ANTHICID^ 



Notoxus bicolor Say 15 



'* monodon J^ab .... 19 



Anthicus haldemani Lee. ... i 



" cervinus La/ i 



CURCULIONID^. 



Listronotus latiusculus Boh 



Macrops delumbis Gyll . . 



" sparsus ? Say. . . 



" porcellus Say . . 



Eudalus limatulus Gyll . . 



Lissorhoptrus simplex Say. 



Conotrachelus nenuphar Lldsl 



" senicuius Lee. . 



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Two New Mymaridac from Russian Turkestan. 



By William H. Ashmead, M.A., D.Sc. 



Recently, Prof. L. Berg, Custodian of the Department of 

 Ichthyology, of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, of St. Petersburg, Russia, sent me two 

 parasitic Hymenoptera for names, laken by him in sweet 

 water, at Syr-darja, Russian Turkestan, which prove to be 

 new species in the family Mymaridae. 



They are without doubt parasitic in the eggs of some aquatic 

 in.sect, probably in the eggs of Dragon-flies (Odonata), as 

 Polynemae have been bred in the United States by Prof. James 

 G. Needham from the eggs of these insects. 



Genus ANAGRUS Haliday. 

 Anagrns hydrophilas n. sp. — 9- — Length 0.5 mm. Black and shining, 

 the head in front brownish, the mandibles, the legs, except the last joint 

 of the tarsi, and the antennae, except the last joint of the club, pale yel- 

 lowish ; the last joint of the tarsi is fuscous, the last joint of the antennae 

 brownish ; the wings are hyaline longly fringed, with the short marginal 

 vein brown. The 9-jointed antennae end in a large ovate single jointed 



