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stigmal oblique, shurt. Marginal fringes of the fore 
wing Short, oiily soniewhat longer than normal (by 
far iwt a sixth the greatest wing width). Caiulal wings 
short. poii\loil, whero broado.st with about four or 
fivo lines of discal cilia. its caxidal marginal cilia four 
fiftlis as long as its greatest width. No postmarginal 
vein. 
What seenis to be the male has the pronotum 
(cxcept laterad), a large marginal area on abdomen 
out from base and not quite the distal half of the 
abdomen (cxcept at apex), black. The pedicel is 
globular, the flagellum striate and filiform, the club 
joints subequal and longest, thrice longer than widc, 
the funicle joints twice longer thau widc, longer than 
the pedicel. 
Described from a single pair on a slide labelled 
,,From Lecanium corni, Madison, Wisconsin, June 23, 
1915. F. A. Fenton". 
Type: Catalogue No. 20 002, U. S. N. M., the 
above specimens on a slide. 
Coccophagus bifasciaticorpus new species. 
F e m a 1 e : ■ — Length, 1.60 mm. 
Exactly similar to javensis Girault excej)t that 
the propodeum is entirely black in the dorsal aspect 
(not as in the other species, out to the spiracle and 
cephalad of the latter only), funicle 1 is slightly shorter 
than the others and the pedicel is longer, slightly longer 
than the funicle joints, a half longer than wide (sub- 
globular in the other species). 
The male is similar except that a little less than 
half of the abdomen is black, the pedicel subglobular, 
the flagellum filiform though thick and its joints 
subequal (except the pedicel) and each somewhat 
longer yet not more than a half longer than wide; 
flagellar joints strongly striate. 
Described from one male, eighteen females on a 
slide labelled ,,From Lecanium hemisphericum on fern, 
Cape Town, Africa, March, 1898. C. P. Lounsbury. 
Type: Catalogue No. 20003, U. S. N. M., the 
above specimens on a slide. 
Ahlems americanus new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.60 mm., excluding the 
ovipositor which is extruded for a third the length 
of the abdomen. Dark metallic green, the knees, tips 
of tibiae, tarsi, distal half of pedicel, distal third of 
club and funicles 2 and 4 silvery white; also the 
Vertex. Fore wings infuscated in general as with 
ehionaspidis Howard but the long proximal infuscation 
is uniform, its distal margin more obliqued caudo- 
distad, the tuft of black hairs at the apex of the 
marginal vein is longer and compacted and the distal 
cross-stripe is a little different in shape and does not 
(caudad of middle) project to the apex where (in 
ehionaspidis) there is a narrow apical marginal stripe. 
Caudal -vving embrowned lightly from base to apex 
of the venation. Also, in this new species the marginal 
fringes of the fore wing appear a little shorter than 
with the other species. Funicle 1 siibequal to 2 and 4, 
a little longer than the pedicel, over twice longer than 
wide, 3 somewhat longer than wide. 
Described from one female on a slide labelled 
,,From Aspidiotus uvae Comstock on grape, June 14, 
1911, Washington, D. C. 
Type: Catalogue No. 20004, U. S. "N. M., the 
above specimen. 
Family Cleonymidae. 
Cheiropachus obscuripes Erucs. 
The sanie as Cheiropachus brunneri Crawford and 
as (he female of what passes in North America as the 
European colon (agreeing with European specimens, 
a pair, so labelled and in the U. S. N. M., and also 
nith two males, „Cheiropachys quadrum Westwood, 
Vosges"). but the males of obscuripes and brunneri 
diffcr much in color from the male of the colon, the 
legs being metallic (in colon bright reddish yellow 
except most of the caudal coxa and the abdomen has 
a reddish yellow stripe across near base and rather 
broad). Also, the American species has shorter funicle 
joints (males, only). 
In the U. S. National Museum there are specimens 
of colon (comparing males only) from Morgantown, 
W. Virginia and Chapel Hill, North Carolina and a 
male reared from Scolytus rugulosus Ratzb. 
A male of obscuripes from the same insect, Cham- 
paign, Illinois (Accession No. 16076, Illinois St. Laby. 
Nat. Hist.). 
In both species, the marginal vein is distinctly 
shorter than the submarginal. 
Family Pteromalidae. 
Merisus subapterus Riley. 
Caudal tibial spur single. Mandibles 4-dentate. 
Antennae 13-jointed with two ring-joints; pedicel 
somewhat longer than funicle 1 (which is slightly 
longer than wide and longest) ; 2 slightly wider than 
long, the others subequal, a littlae shorter than 2. 
Scape long and slender. Male antennae uniformly 
yellowish but otherwise the same but the flagellar 
joints are all slightly longer except 1 which is quadrate. 
Wings minute, mere colorless scales. As in Merisus. 
From the types in the U. S. N. M. 
Eiitomologische Neuigkeiten. 
Der Samen von Tamarix nilotica hat manchmal 
die Eigenschaft zu springen, zu hüpfen. In solchen 
Fällen beherbergt er die kleinen Larven der Curcu- 
lionide Nanophyes maculatus. Die Sprünge erreichen 
eine Höhe von 5 und eine Weite von 8—10 cm. Bis 
dahin war diese springende Eigenschaft nur von 
einigen Tortriciden-Räupchen bekannt, die ebenfalls 
in Samen leben. 
Schwärme der Anosia plexippus wurden am 
30. August 1915 bei Arnes in Jowa und am 18. Sep- 
tember bei Waterman, De Kalb County, Illinois, 
beobachtet. Das erste Datum ist ein außergewöhnlich 
frühes. 
Die Eichengallen von Dryocosmus australis 
haben im Dep. Var Liebhaber in Gestalt von Vögeln, 
ohne daß es bisher gelungen wäre, die Ai't festzustellen. 
Sie durchlochen entweder die Blätter , um zu den Gallen 
zu gelangen, oft auch werden diese, stets von oben 
her, ihres Inhaltes beraubt. — Bisher war unsere Blau- 
meise als Gallenräuber bekannt. 
Redaktion M. Rühl, Zürich VII. — Verlag des Seitz'schen Werkes (Alfred Kernen), Stuttgart. 
Druck von H. Laupp ,jr. Tübingen. 
