124 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Secretary read the following note, submitted by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell : INSECTS IMPALING THEMSELVES. By T. D. A. COCKERELL. While the insects impaled on thorns by shrikes are familial-objects, it seemed to me, when the subject was under discussion, that the probabilities of an insect ever impaling itself must be very slight. Therefore, it seems worth while to bring before you a couple of instances just communicated to me by eye-witnesses, whose veracity I do not in the least doubt. Mr. C. W. Alexan der tells me he has seen the big lubber grasshopper which is common in this region impale itself on the sharp leaf of the broad-leafed Yucca at the Gold Camp, near the Organ Mountains. Mr. R. E. Condit, when driving by Coats Creek, in S. W. Colorado, found numbers of large black crickets which, in their haste to escape from the feet of the horses, jumped against the cacti lining the road, and many of them were impaled on the spines. The following paper was presented by Mr. Ashmead : DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW HYMENOPTEROUS PARA SITES ON CANARSIA HAMMONDI (RILEY). By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. The descriptions of the following new species were drawn up some two years ago at the request of Prof. S. A. Forbes, of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, to accompany an article by Prof. W. G. Johnson, on the habits of Canarsia hammondi, and represent only a small proportion of the para sites reared from this moth. FAMILY ICHNEUMONID^E. Spilocryptus Thomson. Spilocryptus canarsise, sp. n. [Fig. 4.] r^. Length 6 mm. Head and thorax black, shining, clothed with a sparse whitish pubescence, the thorax rather closely punctate, with dis tinct parapsidal furrows, the head almost smooth, with some minute punc tures on cheeks ; face, except two black lines extending forward from base of each antenna, the clypeus, except the extreme apical margin which has a medial emargination, the mandibles, except the teeth, mouth-parts, ex-
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