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a specimen still in my ponciiion, sent to me by Dr. Ashmead 

 in 1903. It is a PHnohius but the wings are not banded. 



ifaU: — Length, aboat 4^ mm. Dark metalltc acncotu green, the 

 wings hyaline, the abdomen, head. ncaoCborax and ejrcs with a toft, 

 close, grcjrish yellow pile; Tcrtcx witii ooppcrjr tiafta. the a b doow n 

 darker, porplisli bbdc. its second sctncnt green and ^hbrooa. Vcb> 

 ation, scape and pedicel, tmdiawtrrs, kaecs. tipa of tibiae and tarsi 

 reddish brown. Hind fenmr somew ha t swoOea aad with fine dentie- 

 ttbtion. diitad with five teeth. Foniclc and dob black. Parapsidal 

 furrows faint half oooplcte from cephalad. Postmarginal vein 

 twice the length of tlie stigwal. three-foarths that of the marginal 

 Propodenm with a median carina and lateral carinae. Pronotvra bardy 

 wider than long. Sixth nfwent of abdomen oc cupying more than the 

 distal half of the surface, segment a deeply excavated at meson of caa> 

 dal margin, exposing to view the ext r e a se ly short third segment the seg- 

 ments distad of 3 densely. pentagonaUy scaly, still denser on & Head 

 and thorax finely, densely sco^tnrcd. Antennae ii-Joinled. the dob 

 solid (thoogh apparently oba cur e ly j-joialed). Funicle lubcasBpfm 

 ed. 7-iointed. the joint* wider than long csccpC the first; one large 

 ring>jotnt which is slightly wider than loof. Pcdicci sabglobate. Hind 

 tibiae with two s ten t . wnnQwal white spnrs. 



The spedmen win be deposited into the collections of the 

 United States National Musetmi as a type, and there shotild 

 be several other males in the same collection but which I have 

 not seen. ( Accompany infT the tagfed sp eci mens is a slide with 

 first and third femora and the antennae.) The scape is darker 

 above at tip. The front femur is distiiKtly swoOen, obacurely 

 denticuhte beneath, more so above. 



Oaotaxia in Trichogramma ndnntiira RUay (Hym.) 

 Once in 1904 I took a female of this qxcies and placed it 

 under a glass jar (lox 10 cm.) over a dean sheet of white 

 bristol board. The time was 5 P. M.. and the jar was placed 

 jtist in front of a window looking cast and thus away from 

 the direct source of light. The jar was nearly equally lighted 

 on all sides. The insect immedbtely commetKred to crawl up. 

 After a second or two, the jar was inverted rather slowly but 

 the upward motion of the insect continued, its course being 

 gradually changed in a direction equal and opposite to that of 

 the jar; thu.s. <iurini; the half revolution of the jar. the vertical 

 movement of the Trichogramma was continued ; when the jar 



