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beautiful marking on the male proboscis, and because of this omis- 

 sion I was led to hope that a new species had been sent me. How- 

 ever, comparison with the males at the National Museum showed 

 the same marking on the specimens there, and then I found in the 

 description of Simondella curvirostris Laveran^ quoted in the mono- 

 graph of H. D. & K. the following: 



"Pres de son origine elle est sombre a la face superieure et pre- 

 sente, a la face inferieure un petit disque ovale garni d' ecailles 

 d'un bleu tres vif." 



As a matter of fact this little oval group of scales is very bril- 

 liant and suggests a sapphire set in the dark proboscis. 



As this marking seems to have escaped entirely the notice of 

 both the authorities mentioned it is perhaps worth while to call 

 attention to it. 



Army Medical Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, 

 August 14, 1918. 



NOTES ON CLOSTEROCERUS CINCTIPENNIS ASHM.,^ 

 IN NEW JERSEY (HYMENOPTERA) 



By Harry B. Weiss and Alan S. Nicolay 

 New Brunswick, N. J. 



This species not heretofore recorded from New Jersey has been 

 found by us at the following localities : New Brunswick, Jamesburg, 

 Highbridge, Trenton, Bridgeton and Plainfield, and undoubtedly 

 occurs in many other places in the state. It was described by 

 Ashmead in his paper "Descriptions of Some New North American 

 Chalcididse" which appeared in Vol. XX, p. 104-1888 of the 

 "Canadian Entomologist" and the habitat given is United States. 

 It is also listed in "The Hymenoptera or Wasp-like Insects of 

 Connecticut" as probably occurring in that state. Neither of the 

 above publications mentions the hosts. 



In New Jersey we have found C. cinctipennis to be parasitic upon 

 the eggs and larvae of Brdchys ovata, the eggs of Brachys aerosa and 



1 Laveran, C. R., heb. Soc. Biol., liv. 1160. 1902. 



2 Identified by A. B. Gahan. 



