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Upon this ground, I believe, Staudinger’s opinion that bambus@ is a variety of 
augiades can never be right according to my way of thinking.” 
“The female of chrysozona varies greatly in the width of the dark markings; 
I have some which are as dark upon the upper side of the forewings as Moore’s 
palmarum, others again have, with exception of the border, only fine, black 
stripes along the veins and a faint, dark shadow on the end of the cell. The 
ground color is darker than in palmarum, and the same as in augiades. The 
female on the upper side is exactly the same as the drawing of palmarum, but 
differs on the underside in that the light bands are nearly as clearly marked as 
they are above. The ground color is greenish-gray-brown.” 
This species is also found upon the betel palm (Areca catechu L.) ; in 
fact, Semper indicates, in his note concerning this insect that the larva 
is only encountered upon that tree. My observations disprove this state- 
ment; indeed, it rarely is seen on any palm other than the coconut. 
Pinhal and remedies.—This insect is never found in sufficient 
numbers to justify the fear that it may become a serious menace to 
coconut culture, but as its feeding upon the leaves of small trees may 
have a tendency to debilitate them, its larvee should be destroyed whenever 
they are encountered. 
Parasites.—This insect is probably, to a great extent, held in check by 
two small Hymenopterous parasites, Chalcis obscurata Walk., and an 
unidentified Braconid, both of which attack the larva, laying their eggs 
within its body, their young feeding upon its fats and body fluids. The 
-_larve of the former parasite, of which there may be as many as 10, pupate 
within the pupa of the coconut skipper, which they kill, emerging there- 
from in from five to six days thereafter (Pl. LV, fig. 1); those of the 
Braconid leave their host when they are full grown and, like all true 
Braconidew, they spin pure-white cocoons in the vicinity of the now dead 
and shriveled caterpillar. After spinning their cocoons the insects 
emerge in about 4 days. (PI. IV, fig. 2.) 
DESCRIPTION OF PARASITE. 
Walker’s description of the Chalcid is as follows: 
Jhalcis obscurata Walk., Proc. Ent. Soe. Lond. (1874) 399. 
Male.—Body, antennx and legs black, with the usual structure. Body convex. 
Head and thorax seabrous, dull. Antenne stout, nearly filiform. Prothorax 
about four times as broad as long. Sutures of the parapsides, distinct. Abdo- 
men smooth, shining, subsessile, with cinereous tomentum toward the tip. Femora 
yellow at the tips, hind femora minutely denticulated beneath. Tibise yellow, 
striped beneath with black; hind tibiw black at the base. Tarsi yellow, tips 
black. Wings cinereous; squamule yellow; veins black; ulna about half as long 
as the humerus. 
Hab.: Hiogo (George Lewis), Philippines (Banks). 
This is the first record of this species of the Chalcidide as from the 
Philippines. 
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