30 Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society. [Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2. 
The species under consideration was originally described by 
Benjamin Dann Walsh (1861) in the following manner: 
“Family Chalcididce. Subfamily Peteromalides. 
It is with some hesitation that I refer the following 
species in this very extensive and difficult family, to 
Glyphe, Wilkinson. It is one of three remarkable con¬ 
generic species in my cabinet, which are all character- 
, s . ized by the last joints of the antennae, when viewed 
from above, being elongate-acuminate, but when 
viewed in profile, being reduced to one-fourth the width 
of the penultimate joint, and attached on one side of it 
like a tarsal claw. In Glyphe the last joint is said 
simply to be elongate-acuminate. In other respects the 
characters tolerable well. In one of my three species, 
parasitic on Microgaster xylina, Say, the antennae are 
notably moniliform. The other one of the three is the 
well known parasite of the Hessian fly, which, at the 
commencement of Say’s entomological career, he 
arranged by mistake under the Proctotrupid genus 
Ceraphron ( C. destructor, Say), which Westwood sub¬ 
sequently, misled by Say’s figure, declared must be evi¬ 
dently one of the Eidophides, the fifth subfamily of the 
Chalcididce, (Westwood’s intr., II, page 160,) which 
Harris afterwards erroneously called a Eurytoma, the 
typical genus of the second subfamily of Chalcididce, 
(Harris, Inj. Ins., p. 432,) ; but which I have no doubt 
from the structure of the prothorax, ought to be 
arranged somewhere among thePteromalides, the. third 
subfamily of Chalcididce. Whether or not we choose 
to refer it to Glyphe is another matter. Perhaps a new 
genus will have to be founded for the reception of 
these three species.* 
Glyphe viridascens. Fig. XI. New Species. Length 
of body .07 inch, or not quite 2 millimetres. General color, 
dark gre'en, verging on black. Head finely and densely 
punctured; palpi whitish, eyes black; antennae light brown, 
the basal joint received in a shallow, wide longitudinal 
* The foot note referred to here is omitted as being but indirectly rela- 
vant.—A. A. G. 
