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brown, stigma and the costal cell somewhat darker; pubescence long 
and dense over the whole wing; discal cell opening into the third pos- 
terior cell; distal portion of the sixth and seventh veins subparallel. 
Length 4 mm., wing 6 mm. 
Hab.—Keyport, Wash. Two males, two females. 
Rhypholophus parallelus n. sp. 
Yellow; front and palpi somewhat darker; antennae wholly yellow; 
thorax reddish yellow, slightly darker above; halteres pale yellow; 
knobs slightly infuscated at the tip; legs yellowish; abdomen brownish 
above, yellow below; ovipositor reddish-yellow, upper valves somewhat 
arcuated; wings brown, rather narrow; stigma indistinct; discal cell 
opening into the third posterior cell; distal portion of the sixth and 
seventh veins subparallel, the latter slightly arcuated; pubescence on 
the wings rather long and dense. Length 5 mm., wing 6 mm. 
Hab.—Ithaca, N. Y. Two females. 
Rhypholophus cornutus n. sp. 
Yellowish-brown; rostrum and palpi darker brown; antennae light 
brown, joints of the flagellum of the male with a dense soft pubescence 
and long verticles, those of the female with the pubescence less dense; 
thorax yellowish-brown with sparse reddish-yellow hairs; halteres 
yellowish; legs brownish, femora lighter toward the base; abdomen 
brown, with long sparse yellow hairs; hypopygium reddish-brown, 
horny appendages black, those at the tip of the lobes very broad and 
emitting three short curved branches; ovipositor reddish-yellow, upper 
valves slightly arcuated; wings brown; stigma darker brown; pubescence 
on wings not very long or dense; discal cell opening into the third pos- 
terior cell; distal portions of the sixth and seventh veins subparallel. 
Length 5 mm., wing 6 mm. 
Hab.—Stanford University, Cal. Two males, one female. 
EvELYN GROESBEECK MITCHELL has brought suit against Dr. Harrison 
G. Dyar to recover $35,000 damages on account of a review of her 
book on mosquitoes which he published in the Canadian Entomologist. 
Nore on Perilitus americanus Ritty.—At Paris, Texas, adults of 
Megilla maculata DeGeer were quite commonly found during the sec- 
ond week in July, 1904, and later, adhering to the cocoons of this 
species, its parasite, in corn fields. Many of these cocoons were 
brought into the laboratory and the resulting parasites proved to be 
all females, which varied considerably in size. “The cocoons of the 
parasite were still numerous in August at Paris and were also found 
at Will’s Point, Texas, on August 15th. The pupal instar was record- 
ed in two cases, beginning with the formation of the cocoon: July 16- 
22, 5% days, and July 18-23, 5 days—A. A. Grrautt, Paris, ‘lexas. 
