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Specimens were reared July 15, 1886, from oat plants received on the 
2d of the same month from the same observer. 
Elachiptera flavida Will.—An adult issued June 27, 1891, from a stalk 
of sugar cane received on the 15th of this month from D. C. Sutton, 
Runnymede, Fla.; the stalk was also infested with a caterpillar of 
Diatrea saccharalis. 
Genus HIPPELATES Loew. 
Only a single species of this genus has been reared, the larva evi- 
dently living in the deserted burrow of another insect. The adults of 
several species are sometimes very annoying by their persistent efforts 
to get into the eyes of both man and animals. 
Hippelates convexus Loew.—An adult issued June 27, 1891, from a 
stem of sugar cane received on the 15th of the month from D.C. Sutton, 
Runnymede, Fla.; the stalk was also infested with the larva of Diatrwa 
saccharalis. 
Genus OscInis Latr. 
The larve of this genus usually attack living plants not previcusly 
injured by insects, but a few species live in the deserted burroy s of 
other insects. 
Oscinis trigramma Loew.—Issued October 4 and 28, 1881, from pzxpa- 
ria.found in burrows of Hlasmopalpus lignosellus Zell., in stalks of corn 
September 29, by Prof. W.S. Barnard, at Atlanta, Ga. 
An adult was bred July 11, 1890, from plants of fall wheat received 
the preceding day from F. M. Webster, Lafayette, Ind. 
Two issued May 21, 1891, from strawberry roots received on the Ist 
of the month from H. T. Back, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; the roots were 
also infested with a Chrysobothris larva. 
Aun adult was bred by A. Koebele from a stem of an unknown grass 
collected in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California; the stem was also 
infested with a larva of a species of Cephus. 
Oscinis coxendix Fitch.—Issued October 28, 1881, from a puparia 
found in a burrow of Hlasmopalpus lignosellus Zell., in a stalk of corn 
collected September 29, by Prof. W.S. Barnard, at Atlanta, Ga. 
Several adults issued July 6, 1886, from young corn plants obtained 
on the 18th of the preceding month by Theo. Pergande at Mount 
Vernon, Va.; the plants were also infested by the larvee of Diabrotica 
12-punctata. Others were bred from corn plants September 12, 1891. 
One specimen issued July 31, 1886, from a plant of Poa pratensis col- 
lected on the 1st of the month by Theo. Pergande in Washington, D.C, 
An adult issued July 11, 1890, from a plant of fall wheat received the 
previous day from F. M. Webster, Lafayette, Ind. 
Oscinis soror Macq.—Adults were bred September 11, 1884, from sev- 
eral plants of Panicum crusgalli received on the 14th of the preceding 
month from F. M. Webster, Oxford, Ind. 
