240 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vo\. x. 



seeks safet\- by running under some convenient cover instead of by 

 fiiglit. 



These notes seen to indicate that, while some species are confined 

 to midsummer, most of the Pine Barren Cicindelae appear late in the 

 summer and continue until fall, when they hibernate in the sand and 

 reappear early in spring ; Mr. H. A\'. Wenzel informs me that many 

 species recorded at Lakehurst on A\m\ lo and April 15 have been found 

 at Da Costa on March 16 when there was still snow on one side of 

 the railroad cut in which they were found. The indications that some 

 individuals hibernate are indeed very strong ; but it may well be that 

 others do not complete their transformation until sjjring and then join 

 their more expeditious brethren to make up the greater spring abun- 

 dance of specimens. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE POINTED-TAILED 



WASPS, OR THE SUPERFAMILY PROC- 



TOTRYPID^. -I. 



By William H. Ashmead, x^.M., 



Assistant Curator, U. -S. National Muskum, Washincton, D. C. 



The writer, in his attempt towards a more natural classification of 

 the Hymenoptera, in the journal of the New York Entomological 

 Society for March, 1899, separated these insects into /i-v/ superfamilies, 

 namely: I, Apoidea ; II, S|)hecoidea ; III, Vespoidea ; IV, Formicoi- 

 dea ; Y, Proctotrypoidea ; \l, Cynipoidea ; A^II, Chalcidoidea ; VIII, 

 It hneumonoidea ; IX, Siricoidea, and X, Tenthredinoidea, which he 

 considered were large natural groups, the sequence so arranged to 

 show, as nearly as it were possil)le in a tabular arrangement, their 

 affinities and relationship. 



The new scheme of arrangement has been most favorably received 

 notwithstanding its incompleteness, since only a few of these super- 

 families have as yet been treated in toto and it is hardly possible yet, 

 except in the vaguest way, for the student to ap])reciate the merits of 

 the system in its entirety. 



Of these ten superfamilies I have now classified down to genera, the 

 Apoidea, the Sphecoidea, the Vespoidea, the Chalcidoidea,* the Ich- 



*To be published shortly by the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



