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may be readily separated by the sculpture of the metathorax, 

 color and punctuation of the abdomen, wing venation and size. 



Ancistromma bruneri n. sp. 



tf. — Length 8-9 mm. — Anterior margin of clypeus strongly rounded 

 out, the outer angles obtuse ; clypeus with medium sized punctures, the 

 distance between them variable ; sides of face closely punctured, the front 

 more sparsely so ; vertex punctured as front ; a shining space in the pit 

 behind the ocelli ; face with sparse silvery pubescence ; mandibles apically 

 and under side of style ferruginous ; space between eyes at top greater 

 than antennal joints 2 and 3, almost as great as 2-4 united ; first and sec- 

 ond joints of flagellum subequal. Thorax with very sparse pale pubes- 

 cence, anterior portion of mesonotum finely punctured, depressed in front 

 and with two distinct parapsidal grooves . scutellum medially impressed, 

 shining, punctures a little more distant ; postscutellum closely punctured; 

 upper face of metathorax finely granulate, with a strong median furrow 

 of uniform width running the entire length and connecting with the de- 

 pression of the posterior face, which is also granulate, more coarsely so 

 below ; metapleura with medium sized punctures. Legs black, apical 

 joints of tarsi reddish, feebly spinose, longer spur of posterior tibia two- 

 thirds the length of basal joint of tarsus. Abdomen black, dorsal seg- 

 ments indistinctly punctured, excepting narrow apical margins of seg- 

 ments, which are impunctate and sometimes testaceous ; pygidial area 

 well defined, coarsely punctured ; ventral segments distinctly finely punc- 

 tured, apices of segments impunctate, 8th ventral plate rounded. Wings 

 subhyaline, strongly iridescent, second recurrent nervure received before 

 the middle of second submarginal cell ; marginal cell truncate, appendi- 

 culation short. 



Described from five % specimens, West Point, Neb., June 

 (L. Bruner). 



Most closely related to A. conferta Fox, from which it differs 

 in the comparative length of antennal joints, punctuation of 

 front and vertex, sculpture of metanotum and color of abdo- 

 men. Dedicated to Prof. Lawrence Bruner, who collected the 



specimens. 



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The Remains of Thomas Say.— Under date of May 28, 1906, Mr. E. 

 B. Williamson wrote : "Mr. C. C. Deam has just returned from New Har- 

 mony, Indiana, where he attended a meeting of the Indiana Academy of 

 Sciences. You may be interested to know that Say's body is buried 

 in a brick sepulcher or vault in the garden of Mr. John Corbin. Some 

 time ago portions of the vault which were made of wood fell down, and 

 in repairing the damage the opportunity was taken of examining the re- 

 mains. The original coffins are gone, but the bones are well preserved 

 in natural positions. The vault has been resealed with concrete to re- 

 place the timbers." 



[A description and a picture of Say's tomb, by Prof. F. M. Webster, 

 'were published in the News, vol. vi, p. 101, for April, 1895.— Eds.] 



