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I1YMEN0PTERA. 
RilEY, C. V. Notes on North American Microgasters, with descriptions 
of new species. Tr. Ac. St. Louis, iv. pp. 296-315, woodcuts. 
This paper commences with general remarks, and a full account of the 
habits, &c., of Apanteles aletice , Riley ; and concludes with a list of 
- known North American species. 
Westwood, J. O. Descriptions of new or imperfectly known species 
of Ichneumones Adsciti. Tijdschr. Ent. xxv. pp. 17-48, pis. iv.-viii* 
32 species noticed. 
Sjnnaria armator , Fabr., sulcator, Smith, spinator, Guer., and fusci- 
pennis, Brulle. Descriptions reprinted ; id. 1. c. pp. 2G-29. 
Cenoccelius, Hal., recharacterized, and the following known species 
redescribed : — C. cephcilotes, Smith, fig. 5, insidiator , Smith, bifasciatus , 
Brulld, figs. 7-10, and nigriventris, Cress., id. 1. c. pp. 33-36 & 41, pi. vii. 
Stenophasmus ruficeps , Smith, genus and species redescribed and figured ; 
id. 1. c. pp. 41-43, pi. viii. figs. 1-5. 
Streblocera fulviceps , Westwood, genus and species redescribed ; id. 1. c. 
pp. 44 & 45, pi. viii. figs. 6-8. 
Microy aster carinatus, Pack., = gelechice, Riley, var. pieridis, Pack, 
( nee Bouch<$), = utilis , French, = Apanteles congregatus, Say, var., and is 
renamed var. pieridivora ; M. atalantce , Pack., is another var. of M. con- 
gregatus ; M. carduicola, Pack., is closely allied to, but distinct from, 
Apanteles theclce , Riley ; Microgaster lunatus , Pack., is an Apanteles. 
Riley, Am. Nat. xvi. pp. 680 & 681. 
Apanteles congregatus , Say. Riley discusses this species and its varieties, 
to some of which he gives the names of hemileucce , rufo-coxalis, and 
8citulus. A. congregatus , Prov., = gelechice, Riley ; Tr. Ac. St. Louis, iv. 
pp. 309-311. 
Pachyloma cremicri , Breb., redescribed ; Arnold, Ilor. Ent. Ross. xvi. 
pp. 146-149. 
New geneva and species : — 
Snellenius, Westwood, Tijdschr. Ent. xxv. p. 19. Neuration of Micro - 
g aster y antennee rather longer than the wings, 17-jointed, scape rather 
thick, the lemaining joints subquadrate, broad, flattened, aud distinctly 
tapering from the middle to the tip. Type, S. vollenhovii , sp. n., 1. c. 
pi. iv. figs. 1-4, New Guinea. 
Agathophiona , id. /. c. Allied to Microdus ; type, A . fulvicornis , sp. n., 
1. c. p. 20, pi. iv. figs. 5-13, Moxico. 
Agathirsia, id. 1. c. p. 20. Allied to last ; to include Microdus tlioraci- 
cus t Cress. ; and A. rufula , figs. 1-4, rufiventris , figs. 5-8, p. 21, proxima, 
and fulvo-castanea, figs. 9 & 10, p. 22, pi. v., Mexico : spp. nn. 
Agathona , id. 1. c. p. 22. Allied to last; type, A. sericans, sp. n., 1. c. 
p. 23, pi. v. figs. 11-15, Mexico. 
Agathilla, id. 1. c. p. 23. Allied to last; type, A. fulvo-picta, sp. n., 1. c. 
p. 24, pi. vi. figs. 1-7, Mexico. 
Puscelinus, id. 1. c. p. 25. Allied to Perilitus , but with the hind 
femora thickened and dentated; type, J?. sarawac u s, sp. n., 1. c. pi. vi. 
fig. 9, Sarawak. 
