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Types: Catalogvie No. 20662. United States National Mu- 

 seum, two males, three females on tags. Types of the named 

 species examined or else specimens. 



The table of species in. the Proc. U. .S. National Museum. 

 40, 191 1, p. 446, is faulty in that the coloration of the femora 

 and tibiae is not mentioned and the sculpture of the head is 

 used ; I have been able to see no real difference in respect to 

 the latter, though I have examined ever}^ species concerned 

 besides all those from North America. However, citplcctri 

 has the space inclosed by the V-shaped suture in front of the 

 ocelli subglabrous ; in the genotype this is glabrous. 



Closterocerus utahensis Crawford (californicus Giraiilt). 



One female from Syiiiydobius chrysolcpis on Qucrcns cJiry- 

 solcpis, Alpine, California, April 30, 1916 (A. F. Swain). 



Omphalchrysocharis petiolatus new species. 



$ . Similar to orientalis but the mandibles only bidentate, the petiole 

 nearly twice longer than wide and with lateral carinae (its surface 

 scaly), the scutellum with a short sulcus at Ijase, the propodeum with 

 irregular carinae along its meson broadly. Funicle joints nearly twice 

 longer than wide, subequal, each a little longer than the pedicel. 



$ . Scape dilated, black along its dorsal edge, otherwise pale. 



Three pairs reared from an Oscinid on daisy, March 5, 

 1890 (Washington, D. C). 



Types: Catalogue No. 20665, United States National Mu- 

 seum, two males, three females on tags, the head of each sex 

 on a slide. 



Arthrolytus aeneoviridis Girault. i 



One female. Phoenix, Arizona, from Buccv.latrix thurheri- 

 aella on cotton (C. K. Wildermuth). 



Scudder's Tertiary Insects of North America. 

 A few copies of Volume XIII of the final reports of the Hayden Sur- 

 vey, entitled "The Tertiary Insects of North America," have been re- 

 cently acquired by the United States Geological Survey, Department of 

 the Interior, and may be obtained on application to the Director of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. This monograph is of in- 

 terest to paleontologists. It contains 734 pages and 28 plates. 



