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8. Mesochorus scitulus. N. sp.—T 2. Pale honey-yellow or luteous ; 
head broad; spot covering ocelli, and tips of mandibles black ; occiput of 
© more or less fuscous; antennae long and slender, pale testaceous, some- 
times slightly dusky, scape paler ; mesothorax fuscous in ©, honey-yellow 
with dusky sides in gf ; scutellum and region honey-yellow; disk of 
metathorax more or less blackish or fuscous ; tegulae pale luteous ; wings 
hyaline, iridescent, nervures and stigma luteous ; legs pale luteous, apex _ 
of posterior tibiae and tips of tarsal joints dusky; abdomen fusiform, very 
‘slender at base, black above, with a large discal pale luteous spot covering 
apical half or two-thirds of second, and basal half or two-thirds of third — 
segments; venter pale luteous; apex of f with two long slender.setae ; 
ovipositor of 2 longer than basal segment. Length 1% line. 
ffab.—Pennsylvania. ‘Twenty-three specimens, along with four speci- 
mens of a Pezomachus, bred from a bunch of bright lemon-yellow cocoons, 
(probably those of a Arcrogaster), found attached to a blade of grass. 
g. Mesochorus obliguus. N. sp.— 9. Pale honey-yellow, orbits and 
mouth luteous ; sides of mesothorax faintly dusky; tegulae white ; wings 
hyaline, iridescent, stigma fuscous, nervures pale; legs pale luteous, 
posterior femora yellowish, their tibiae fuscous at base and almost black at 
apex ; lateral margins of first abdominal segment and two oblique marks 
at base of second segment black ; extreme sides of third segment dusky. 
Length 2 lines. 
fab. — Pennsylvania. Distinguished by the two oblique marks at 
base of the second abdominal segment. 
TO. Mesochorus melleus. N. 5p.—T. Uniformly honey-yellow ; spot 
enclosed by ocelli, and tips of mandibles blackish ; antennae as long as 
body, slender, flagellum dusky ; wings hyaline, iridescent, stigma fuscous, 
nervures much paler; legs luteous, extreme base and apex of posterior 
tibiae and tips of tarsal joints dusky ; abdomen robust, honey-yellow, apex 
somewhat discolored. Length 2 lines. 
ffab.—Pennsylvania. Easily distinguished by the immaculate, uniform 
honey-yellow colour of the body, which is more robust than usual. 
THE ANNUAL Report on Insects Noxious or Beneficial to Agriculture, 
which, by the Statute of Incorporation, is required to be furnished by the 
Entomological Society of Ontario to the Commissioner of Agriculture, is 
now in the printer’s hands, and will be forwarded to the Members of the 
Society as speedily as possible. 
