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skin pale, very short, not longer than i mm. Neither pro- 

 thoracic nor anal shield chitinous. 



Pupa, from empty shell : — Fifteen mm. long to tip of 

 cremaster ; 4 mm. wide across thorax by 3 mm. thick. Abdom- 

 inal segments tapering to a point. General shape slender and 

 elegant. Head and eye-caps make a triangular anterior pro- 

 jection. Cremaster .75 mm. long, armed with two large hooks 

 and four smaller ones. 



Color of pupa whitish green, on upper side of thorax and 

 dorsal side of all abdominal segments, except 12 and 13, is a 

 black-brown patch, averaging 2 mm. in width, interrupted by 

 a small clear spot on posterior edge of thorax ; the same spots 

 are repeated on first and second abdominal segments and on 

 margin of patch about centre of thorax. On the last abdom- 

 inal segment is a small dorsal spot of the same black-brown 

 color. The appearance of this patch is, as if the pupa had been 

 held for a moment, dorsum down, in cold-tar or pitch, and in 

 very striking contrast with the nearly white color. Setae on 

 pupa very minute. 



A New Torymtd from Utah. 



By W. H. AsHMEAD. 



Torymns wickhami, new species. 



9. — Length 4-5 mm ; ovipositor nearly 4 mm. Head and thorax blue, 

 closely punctate or shagreened, with sometimes a faint greenish tinge in 

 certain hghts, and clothed with a fine, short, glittering white pubescence; 

 eyes brown, the malar space distinct ; ocelli pale ; flagellum black or 

 brown-black, the scape blue with a yellow spot at base ; abdomen wholly 

 reddish-yellow, with the sheaths of the ovipositor black ; legs with the 

 coxae and femora blue, the tibiae and tarsi yellowish, wings hyaline, the 

 veins brown-black. 



Type.— No. 8133, U. S. N. M. 



Milford, Utah. Described from two specimens taken July 

 7, 1904, by Professor H. F. Wickham, and in honor of whom 

 this lovely species is named. 



On page 271 of Ent. News for October 1904, there is an error in the 

 Raleigh records of Chrysops moechus, our only record for this species at 

 Raleigh is September 3, 1903, but in Mr. Sherman's paper the whole 

 records for Chrysops niger at Raleigh are through some slip given for 

 moechus also. — C. S. Brimley. 



