ICHNEUMONlDiE, BRACONIDiE. 
Ins. 145 
Metopius edwardsi, id. 1. c. p. 376, Washington Territory. 
Crypturus niger^ S. 0. Snellen van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. 
p. 1 58, pi. ix. figs. 3 & 3 a, S. France. 
PimplideSi > 
EpTiialtes. Kriechbaumer discusses the difficulties in the determina- 
tion of species, and describes the ? of E. mesocentrusy Grav. ; Ent. Nachr. 
iv. pp. 193-197. 
Atractogaster^ Kriechb. Characters remodelled ; id. 1. c. p. 197. 
Pimpla. Short notes ; Snellen van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. 
pp. Ixxiv.-lxxvii. 
Pimpla angens, Gm., parasitic on a venomous spider of S. Europe ; F. 
Telesphore, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 266. 
Acoenites nigripennis, Grav., noticed and figured by S. C. Snellen van 
Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. p. 165, pi. x. fig. 3. 
New genera and species : — 
SyenSj Snellen van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. p. Ixxvi. Section 
of Pimpla ; a deep transverse groove at the back of each segment of the 
abdomen ; no type mentioned. 
Phidias, id. 1. c. p. 164. Allied to Arenefra ; type, P. aciculatus, sp. n., 
1. c. p. 165, pi. X. figs. 2 & 2 a, England. 
Xylophylax, Kriechbaumer, Ent. Nachr. iv. p. 210. Allied to Xorides, 
but with characters intermediate between those of a large number of 
genera. (A brief preliminary indication of the characters is given ; the 
species, presumably new, are not yet indicated or described.) 
Coleocentrus occidentalism E. T. Cresson, P. Ac. Philad. 1878, p. 376, 
Vancouver’s Isl. 
Ephialtes thoracicus, id. 1. c. p. 377, Vancouver’s Isl. ; E. melanomerus 
(De Haan, MS.), S. 0. Snellen van Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. 
p. 48, Java. 
Pimpla behrensi, E. T. Cresson, 1. c. p. 377, California. 
Lissonota flavo-picta and albo-picta, F. Smith, Tr. E. Soc. 1878, p. 4, 
Otago, New Zealand. 
Phytodicetus exareolatus, S. C. Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1. c. p. 163, 
pi. ix. fig. 6, Guelderland; P, obscurellus, p. 379, and calif ornicus, p. 380, 
Cresson, 1. c., California. 
Lampronota gelida, British Columbia, p. 377, vivida and segnis, Van- 
couver’s Isl., and hilaris, California, p. 378, edwardsi, Vancouver’s Isl., 
and L. (?) lugubris, British Columbia, p. 379. E. T. Cresson, 1. c. 
Poemenia insularis, id. 1. c. p. 380, Vancouver’s Isl. 
Xylonomus calif ornicus, id. ibid., California. 
Xorides occidentalis, id. ibid., Vancouver’s Isl. 
Echthrus P maurus, id. 1. c. p. 381, Vancouver’s Isl. 
BrACONIDJ]. 
Dendrosoter, table of species ; A. Forster, Verb. Ver. Rheinl. xxxv. 
pp. 81 & 82. 
1878. [voL. XV.] 
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