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distinguished from one another. Fig. 53 shows a braconid fly. The 

 habits of this family are similar to the last, it being believed that its mem- 

 bers are nearly all parasites. Usually they attack the larvae, but they 

 are bred in great numbers from pup 33 and occasionally from imagoes 

 of other Insects. The family requires careful study in India where 

 its members are undoubtedly of the greatest service to man both in 

 the field, plantation and forest. The writer has recently bred out Bracon 

 flies from two Scolytid barkboring pests — Scolytus major and S. minor 

 (Order Coleoptera) — which infest deodar trees- in the North W -est 

 Himalayas. The flies lay their eggs in or on the scolytus grubs and the 

 Bracon larvae feed upon the latter. 



