352 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Weevil and dry wheat, T. B. Fletcher (Agr. Jour. India, 6 (1911), No. 4, 

 pp. 333-343, pi. 1). — It is stated that stored wheat containing less than 8 per 

 cent of moisture is immune from attack by weevils and that any weevils that 

 may gain access to it are soon liilled off. Wheat when threshed contains about 

 8 per cent of moisture, but in India this may be reduced to about 4 per cent 

 by exposure to the sun in April and May. 



A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidse, 

 \V. M. Wheeler (Ann. N. Y. Acad. ScL, 21 {1911), pp. ^57--? 75). —This list of 

 the genera and subgenera, both living and fossil, is believed to be complete to 

 June, 1911. 



Hymenoptera. — Family Ichneumonidae, G. V. Sz^pligeti (P. Wytsman's 

 Oenera Insectormn. Brussels, 1911, No. 114, PP- 100, pis. 2). — This fascicle of 

 the series edited by P. Wytsman deals with the Mesochoroidre, which includes 

 the subfamilies Limnerinse, Mesochorinfe, Adelognathinse, Plectiscinse, Vanchinse, 

 Neomesochorinae, Megacerinte, and Paniscinje. 



Descriptions of six new genera and thirty-one species of Ichneumon flies, 

 H. L. ViERECK (Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., 40 {1911), pp. 113-196).— Among the 

 species of economic importance from the family Braconidfe are: Apanteles 

 (Protapanteles) chrysippi, reared from larvae of Danais chrysippus in Portu- 

 guese East Africa ; A. grifflni, reported to have overcome a scourge of cut- 

 worms at Quogue, N. Y. ; A. (Pseudapanteles) etiellw, reared from Etiella 

 schisticolor, at Pullman, Wash. ; Diachasma crawfordi, taken while stinging 

 maggot-infested mangoes at Cuernavaca, Mexico, and probably a parasite of 

 Anastrepha ludens; Hormiopterus graciliformus, reared from a eurytomid in 

 Agropyrou, at Wellington, Kans. ; Alacrocentrus {Amicroplus) crambivorus, 

 reared from Crambus larvse at Corry, Pa. ; and Microplitis melianw, reared from 

 Meliana albilinea, at Grand River, Iowa. From the family Ichneumonidae are 

 described Aneniplieres diapkanice, reared from pupal cases of Dlaphania hya- 

 linata, at Raleigh, N. C. ; Cremastus hymen/ice, reared from Hymenia fascialis, 

 Oahu, Hawaiian Islands; Limncrium {Campoletis) prodenice, reared from Pro- 

 denia ornithogalH, at Mount Washington, Ohio ; Mesoclwrus infenmlis, reared at 

 Santa Maria, Tex., in connection with Apanteles {Protapanteles) flaviconchce, 

 which is probably its host ; and Mesocliorus nigrisignus, from Grand River, 

 Iowa, thought to be parasitic on Microplitis meliana;. 



Descriptions of one new genus and eight new species of Ichneumon flies, 

 H L. ViERECK {Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 40 {1911), pp. 475-480).— The new species 

 here described that are of economic importance include Apanteles lacteicolor, 

 bred from Euproctis chrysorrhwa from Europe, and Pimpla porthetricv, bred 

 from Porthetria dispar from Japan. The genus Cyanopteridea is erected to 

 replace Cyanopterus of Szepligeti, C. {Iphiaulax) clypeolus being the type 

 species. 



Descriptions of new Hymenoptera, II, J. C. Crawford (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 40 (1911), pp. //39-i//9).— This second paper (E. S. R., 26, p. 63) presents 

 descriptions of 15 new species. Among those of economic importance are Tele- 

 nomus benefactor', reared from the eggs of Tabanus twniola at Bebelein, 

 Egyptian Soudan ; Tclenomiis kingi, reared from the eggs of Tabanus Tcingi at 

 Kohr Arbat, Egyptian Soudan ; Telenomus gotvdeyi, reared from the eggs of 

 Anaphe infracta at Entebbe, Uganda ; Habrocytus piercei, reared from Anthon- 

 omus grandis at Tallulah, La. ; Zatropis deuterus, reared from a cecidomyiid 

 larva injuring cotton in Antigua, British West Indies; Pleurotropis telenomi, 

 reared from the eggs of Anaphe infracta, together with Telenomus gowdeyi, on 

 which it appears to be a secondary parasite, at Entebbe, Uganda ; Horismemis 

 apantelivorus and H. cockerelli, both reared from Apanteles sp. at Kingston, 

 Jamaica ; Tetrastichus antiguensis, reared from C. floridensis at Antigua, West 



