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description suiting it in LeConte and Horn's synopsis which I 

 had with me. It puzzled Mr. Liebeck, to whom I sent it, and 

 I consulted Mr. Schwarz, who was able to give me the desired 

 information. He pronounced the beetle a member of a family 

 new to the fauna of North America, the AUocorynidse. It 

 belongs to the genus Allocoryjius Sharp, of which there has 

 been but one species described hitherto, from which this one is 

 quite distinct. Mr. Schwarz has given it the MS. name of A. 

 slossoncB, and will soon describe it. I took a second specimen, 

 later, while sweeping low herbage along the shore of the 

 Miami River. 



I am fond of window-pane collecting. My windows at Miami 

 are the only ones in the hotel without wire screens. Those I 

 always have removed as soon as I arrive ; they would interfere 

 with my collecting. Many a choice specimen I have taken on 

 the glass of those windows. One morning in March of this year 

 I saw a small Hymenopterous insect upon one of the panes of 

 an eastern window. While capturing it another appeared, and 

 then another. Throughout the forenoon the\' came at inter- 

 vals until I had several of both sexes, all the same species. 

 They were evidently parasitica, and, as my windows were all 

 closed, I felt sure they had emerged from something in the 

 room. But what was it? There was not to my knowledge a 

 chr>'salis, pupa, or larva in that apartment, all such treasures 

 being kept in an adjoining room. Suddenly I remembered an 

 egg-case of a Mantis which a friend had brought in to ask 

 about and left upon my table. I examined it and found that 

 my tiny visitors had evidently come from this. I sent some of 

 them with other insects to Mr. Ashmead, who identified them 

 as Anastahis mirabilis Walsh, " parasitic on Katydid's eggs." 

 In a small lot of parasitica, gathered by me in Miami, this last 

 season, Mr. Ashmead found twelve new species, and others 

 were marked by him "verj^rare," "West Indian," "de- 

 scribed from Mexico." My Diptera, too, turned out well, 

 several of my captures being new species and others exceed- 

 ingly rare. Lepidoptera were ver3- scarce. I took little of 

 interest or especial value in that order. I was surprised by 

 once finding at twilight hovering over blossoms a fine fresh 



