128 Ins. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
Gyrolasia flavimedia, Howard, 1. c. pi. xxiv, fig. 5, California. 
Geniocerus lasiopterce, Lindeman, Bull. Mosc. Iv. 2, p. 387, parasitic 
on Lasioptera (Cecidomyia) cereulis. 
Trichogramma minutissimum, Packard, P. Bost. Soc. xxi. p. 37 (bred 
from Fapilio turnus), United States. 
Proctotrypid^. 
Saunders, [Sir] S. S. On the habits and affinities of the Hyraenopter- 
ous genus Scleroderma^ with descriptions of new species. Tr. E. Soc. 
1881, pp. 109-116. 
These insects prove to be parasitic, chiefly on other Hymenopterous 
larvae, and should probably be referred to the Froctotrypidce. The $ is 
generally without wings or ocelli, but some unusually well-developed ^ 
examples possess both. 
Westwood, J. 0. Observations on the Hymenopterous genus Sclero- 
derma, Klug, aud some allied groups. Tr. E. Soc. 1881, pp. 117-140, 
pis. iv.-vii. 
The structural characters are discussed, special attention being called 
to the 13-jointed antennae, and a list of species described since the 
author’s monograph published in Tr. E. Soc. ii. is added ; S. hicolor, 
Smith, is redescribed and figured, p. 121, pi. v. figs. 1 & \a-e. The fol- 
lowing known genera and species are also discussed, and several new 
species described : Cephalonomia formiciformis, Westw. (= Holopedina 
polypori, Foerst.), p. 126, pi. vi. figs. 1-3; C. (?) fuscicornis, Westw., 
p. 128, pi. vi. fig. 7 ; Apenesia modesta, Smith, p. 131, pi. vii. figs. 4 & 4a-c ; 
A. parasitica. Smith, p. 132 ; Fristocera contracta, Westw., probably = 
ati'a, Klug, $ , p. 132 ; Methoca, known species redescribed, pp. 134-138. 
Folynema natans, Lubb. (parasitic on eggs of dragon-flies), noticed ; 
Bostock, Nature, xxiv. pp. 356 & 357. 
Scleroderma domesticum, Westw. Larva feeding on a Longicorn larva 
i^Oxypleurus nodieri, Muls.) ; Saunders & Andr6, P. E. Soc. 1881, pp. xxxiii. 
xl. & xli. 
Undetermined species of Mymarince from Sicilian amber, noticed and 
figured ; Cornalia, Atti Acc. Rom. (3) v. pp. 80-83, fig. 1. 
Flatygaster, sp., parasitic on Lasioptera (^Cecidomyia) cerealis, described ; 
Lindeman, Bull. Mosc. Iv. 2, p. 388. P., sp. infesting pupa of 
Hessian fly ; Warneck, Bull. Mosc.'dvi. 1, Stances, pp. 17 & 18. F. error, 
Fitch, noticed; Comstock, Ann. Rep. Dep. Agric. 1879, pp. 196 & 197. 
Sierola, g. n., Cameron, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, p. 556. Allied to Gonioxus, 
but differs from all the known genera of Bethyloince in having the radial 
cellule completely closed, and in the presence of a small oval cellule 
uniting the humeral cellules; type, S. testaceipes, sp. n., 1. c., Sandwich 
Islands. 
New species : — 
Apenesia chontalica, Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1881, p. 131, pi. vii. figs. 3 
& ^a-d, Chontales. 
