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Figures 30, 31. — Localities: 30 (left), Calliephialtes notandus; 31 (right), 



C. thurberiae. 



and at Jacksonville, N. C; April 23 at Hagerstown, Md.; April 30 

 at Ithaca, N. Y.; October 18 at Takoma Park, Md.; October 19 at 

 Charlottesville, Va.; October 29 at Bellefontaine, Ohio; October 30 

 at Davis, Calif.; and November 15 at Takoma Park, Md. 



Rearing records are as follows: 1 rearing from Epiblema desertana, 

 2 from E. strenuana, 1 from "Gelechia" sp., 1 from Gnorimoschema 

 baccharisella, 2 from G. gallae-asteriella, 13 from G. gallaesolidaginis, 

 1 from Walshia "amorphella," 1 from a bruchid in Lotus, one from a 

 moth larva, 9 from stems of Ambrosia, 1 from larva in gall on Quercus, 

 1 from stem of Yucca?, and 2 from a gall. There is a female in 

 Washington from western Kansas, from L. C. Brons, labeled preying 

 on [Melanopus] spretus. This may be the origin of the old record of 

 Lissonota brunnea being a parasite of Melanopus spretus (1891, Insect 

 Life, vol. 3, p. 464), based on a mistaken biological observation and a 

 mistaken identification of the parasite. 



This species occurs in most of the United States and southern 

 Canada. Adults occur from early spring to late fall. The habitat is 

 always in the open, in fields with coarse weeds, where the usual hosts 

 are lepidopterous larvae boring or making galls in the stems of weeds 

 of the family Compositae. 



2. Calliephialtes thurberiae Cushman 



Figure 321,e 



Calliephialtes thurberiae Cushman, 1915, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, 

 p. 132; ci\ 9 • Type: ? , Santa Rita Mts., Ariz. (Washington). 



Front wing of male about 6 mm. long, of female about 7.5 mm. long; 

 anterolateral part of lateral lobe of mesoscutum with very sparse 

 hairs; groove between propodeum and metapleurum not containing a 



