HYMENOPTERA. 
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cmicasica (Kolen.) = jRwc?m megacepJiola (Costa), p. 169 j M. (Latr.)=: 
melanocephala (F&h.)=triareolata (Spin.) = hastata (Costa), p. 171. 
Thynnus clypearis, sp. n., De Saussure, 1. c. p. 69, ci* ( $ ?), Sydney, Australia. 
Mutilla cephalica, sp. n., Sicliel & Badoszkowsky, 1. c. p. 166, South France, 
Russia, and Greece. 
Methoca mandihularis, sp. n., Smith, I, c. p. 301, Shanghai. 
Formic ID.®. 
Perkins has published (Amer. Nat. iii. pp. 360-364) a semipopular account 
of the Driver Ant (Anomma arcens, Westw. ?) in Western Africa. 
Eaton (Ent. Monthly Mag. v. p. 298) records the unnaturally early deve- 
lopment (in April) of the winged sexes of Fortnica nigi'a (JArm.) , from a nest 
situated near the hot-water pipes of a cactus-house in the botanical gardens 
at Cambridge. 
Fpitritus, g. n., Halid. MS., Emery, Bullet, d. Soc. Ent. Ital. i. p. 136. 
Near Striimigcnys, but distinguished by having the antennae 4-articulate, as 
is also the case in Oredognathxm. But Orectognatlim}\^^ the 2nd joint of the 
flagellum the largest; FpitrUtis tbo 4th. Head shorter and broader than in 
Struxnigenys ; eyes invisible from above ; pronotiim large, obtusely produced 
at the humeral angles ; metanotum bidentate ; tibiae short ; wings wanting. 
Established on a single Sp. E. argiolus, sp. n. (Hal.), ibid., fig., Lucca. 
Cremastogaster Icestrygon, sp.n., Emery, /. c. p. 136, Sicily. 
ClIRYSIDIDiE. 
Chrysis hirsida, sp. n., Gerstacker, Stett. ent. Zeitung, 1869, p. 186, and C. 
cribrata, sp. n., Gerstacker, 1. c. p. 186, Upper Carinthia. 
ICHNEUMONIDyE. 
Jordan (Ent. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 138) mentions that Mesoclioriis pecto- 
ralis (Ratz.) was reared by him from a larva of Pterophm'us tepJiradactylus 
(Hub.), and also notices the parasitism of Rogas hicolor (Spin.) upon larvae of 
that plume. 
Tappes figures (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e s^r. ix. pi. 1. fig. 16) Pezomachus 
( = Theroscopus) pedestris (Gravenhorst), a parasite of Cryptocephalus diiode- 
cimpunctatus (Fab.), and (1. c. fig. 16) the <5* of Blacus {■= Pijgostolus) falcatus 
(Nees), a parasite of Cryptocephalus hipunctatus (Linn.). 
Paniscus. Riley (First Ann. Report Ins. Missouri, p. 89) notices the habits 
of P. geminatus (Say). 
Microgaster. Riley (ibid.) figures M. militaris (Walsh). According to the 
figure, this insect is certainly not a Microgaster, but possibly an Alysia. 
Hormiopterus, g. n., Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. ix. p. 478. Cha-’ 
racters of Ilormius, except the antennae, which are 37-jointed, very slender 
and filiform. Sp. II. ollivieri [sic], sp. n., p. 479, Algeria. 
New species : — 
Ichneumon. The following new species are described by Kawall (Bull. 
Soc. Nat. Mosc. xlii. 1869), all from Courland : — I. leucacanthus and tuher- 
culatus, p. 606; I. palpator, p. 607 ; I. contrectator and cupid'ns, p. 608; I. 
appetens and eichwaldi, which may be a Cryptus, p. 509 ; I. avidus, p. 610. 
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