in place by a rubber band, or the glass cover may be placed over 
the mouth. Careful examination of the sides of the jar with a 
three-quarter-inch lens will usually enable one to find the parasites 
after they have emerged. It becomes then a critical question how to 
get them out of the jar and into a very small vial. This is done by 
turning the jar on its side with the bottom toward a window. The 
parasites will immediately jump or fly toward the light, when the cover 
may be removed and the hand, holding a little vial, inserted. The vial 
is placed over the parasite, which will immediately give a frantic jump 
back into it, Avhen the orifice maybe closed by the finger and the hand 
withdrawn from the jar. A little wad of cotton saturated with chloro- 
form is then inserted in the neck of the vial, and as soon as the para- 
site ceases to move it can be taken out with a delicate brush and 
mounted, as above indicated. 
It is sometimes convenient to use a large vial instead of a wide- 
mouthed jar for this rearing. In this case, as the hand can not be 
inserted, it is a more complicated operation to remove the imrasites 
after they have issued. Mr. Pergande accomplishes this in an ingen- 
ious way by taking a very small vial and wrapping the outside of its 
mouth with several thicknesses of paper until it forms a stopper to the 
larger vial. The combined vials are then held with the small one 
toward the window, and the parasites will immediately fly into the 
smaller one, where they may be easily killed and from which they may 
be removed and mounted. It is fortunate that they have this irresist- 
ible impulse to fly toward the light, otherwise it would be most difficult 
to remove them before mounting. 
I have not had an opportunity of examining identified European 
forms of the subfamily. Twenty-seven species were catalogued by 
Kirchner, as follows: 
MYINIDiE Eoerster. 
511. G. Agonioneurus Westw. 
1. abdominalis Nees. Deutsch. 11. Ida-us Walk. Eng. 
2. Acestor Walk. Eng. 12. locustarum Giraud. Wien. 
3. Argvope Walk. Eng. 13. lycimnia Walk. Eng. 
4. Asychis Walk. Eng. 14. Inaron Walk. Eng. 
5. basalis Walk. Eng. 15. Moeris Walk. Eng. 
6. daucicola Foerst. Aachen. 16. Proclia Walk. Eng. 
7. dubins Foerst. Aachen. 17. tibialis Sets. Wien. Aus Aphis chen- 
8. facialis Foerst. Aachen. opotlii. 
9. flavicornis Foerst. Wien. Gez. aus 18. varipes Foerst. Wien. Gezog. aus 
Aphis papaverisYh. Aphis viciee. 
10. flavus Xees. Deutsch. 
512. G. Coccophagus. 
1. insidiator Dalm. Deutsch.., Wien. 
2. obscurus Westw. Eng. (Aphehnus obscurus Walk. Mon. Chal. I, p. 6.) 
3. scutellaris Dalm. Schweden. 
