In the spring of 1880, while collecting Coleoptera, I secured a ♀ of a large species of Chalcid belonging to the genus Smicra, which is apparently unknown to the scientific world.

The specimen was captured on an oak shrub, in close proximity to an empty polyphemus cocoon. Could it have hatched from it ? This is not improbable, as Prof. C. V. Riley's Smicra mariœ was bred from this moth, and other species of the genus are known to be parasitic upon the larvæ of our larger moths.