CHRYSIDID^, ICHNEUMONID^:. 
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Chkysidid.^. 
Stilhum calens is parasitic on ChaUcodoma murarium, and another (blue) 
species devours the larva of a Pelopceus. Chrysis cyanea is parasitic on 
Trypoxylon figulus. J. Lichtenstein, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. xv. 
& xvi. 
Homalus -nanus, sp. n., S. S. Saunders, Tr. E. Soc. 1873, p. 411, Ionian 
Islands, parasitic on Nitelopsis pisonoidei^. 
ICHNEUMONID^. 
E. T. Ckesson, in his "Descriptions of Mexican Ichneumonidae," 
P. Ac. Philad. 1873. pp. 104-176, 374-413, enumerates or describes as 
new a large number of species, mostly taken by F. Sumichrast near 
Orizaba and Cordova. Some new sub-genera are characterized. 
The following North American species are stated in Tr. Ac. St. Louis, 
iii. p. 114 et seq., to have been described in Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. iii.,' and 
are given here instead of under their several sub-families, as that vol. of 
the Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. has not been seen by the Recorder, and there may 
be many other species described in it [N.B. ; these species are 
not given in Rec. Am. Ent. 1870-1873] : — Cyllocerla occidentalis, Cresson, 
p. 160, Lampronota scutellaris, Cresson, p. 161, L. tegularis, Cresson, 
p. 163, L. varia, Cresson, p. 164, L. ruhrica, Cresson, p. 165, L. nigrita. 
Walsh, p. 159 (an Arenetra; Cresson, Tr. Ac. St. Louis, iii. p. 123), 
Glypta simplicipes, Walsh, p. 156, G. taherculifrons, Walsh, p. 152, G. 
rufiscutellaris, Walsh, p. 163, G. longiveiitris, Walsh, p. 154, G. scittda, 
Cresson, p. 155, Pimpla annulicornis, Walsh, p. 147, P. scrijytifrons. 
Walsh, p. 148, P. (?) indagatrix, Walsh, p. 146, P. cdboincta, Cresson, 
p. 147, Accenites rupinsulensis, Walsh, p. 152, Phytodketus vulgaris and 
disUnctus, Cresson, p. 166, Tryplion (?) suhmarginatus, Cresson, p. 274, 
Xylonomus albqnctus, Cresson, p. 168. 
Woldstedt's " Materialier till en Ichneumonologia Fennica," Helsingf ors : 
1873, 8vo, has not been seen by the Recorder. 
F. Walker, Ent. vi. p. 431, gives a list of species occurring in the Isle 
of Man. 
Ichneumonide.'^ . 
Tischbein, S. E. Z. xxxiv, pp. 345-356, 417-444, commences a synopsis 
of the European species of Ichneumon, Wesm., with an account of those 
occurring at Birkenfeld, and descriptions of new species. Ichneumon 
multiguttatus, Gr., = centummaculatus, Christ. ; /. stramentarius, W., is 
distinct from suspiciosus, W. The sexes of various species are carefully 
distinguished. 
PatrocluH, subg. n., Cresson, P. Ac. Philad. 1873, p. 104.' Distinguished 
from typical Ichneumon by the ungues being pectinate. P. nigri- 
cceruleus, sp. n., id. ibid. Orizaba, and Ichneumon lectus and toltecus^ Cress. 
Ortezia, subg. n. of Ichneumon, id. I. c. p. 130. Abdomen longitudinally 
rugose or aciculated, with the segments more or less constricted at the base. 
Joppa (?) egregia and aciculata, Cresson. 
