ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



VOL. XVIII. 



NOVEMBER, 1907. 



No. 9. 



CONTENTS: 



Howard A Chalcid Parasite of a Tick 373 

 SkimiiT A iK-w Butterfly from Calif... 378 

 Pierce Contributions to the Knowl- 

 edge of Rhynchophora 379 



Fullaway Immature Stages of a Psy- 



chodid Fly 386 



Wood The female of Protumbulix car- 



teri R. and J 389 



Brues A remarkable new Phorid from 

 Cape Colony 390 



Banks A new species of Termes 392 



Viereck Two new species of Perdita 393 

 Cockerell Notes on some bees collec- 

 ted by Mr. H. L. Yiereck in New 



Mexico in 1902 ,95 



Editorial 399 



Notes and News 400 



Entomological Literature 402 



Doings of Societies 406 



A Chalcidid Parasite of a Tick. 



BY L. O. HOWARD. 



(Plate XIX') 



Although the Chalcidoid parasites of the family Encyrtidae 

 have varied hosts, none has ever been recorded from any but 

 a true insect, and even in the Insecta the field is rather 

 definitely limited. In fact, there seems to be no record that 

 any Hymenopterous parasite has ever been reared from an 

 Ixodid, although some are known to breed in Araneids. On 

 March 15, 1907, however, Mr. J. D. Mitchell, of Victoria, 

 Texas, sent to the laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture, at Dallas, 

 Texas, a number of specimens of Haciuaphvsalis leporis- 

 palitstris, collected on a cottontail rabbit in Jackson County, 

 I r.vas. These included two nymphs and numerous adults. 

 The nymphs were placed in a pill-box by Mr. W. A. Hooker 

 to obtain data regarding the time from dropping to molting. 

 The bottom of the pill-box was perforated with a pin and 

 placed on moist sand in a petri dish. On May 1st the box 



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