June, '12] TOWNSEND: COTTON SQUARE-WEEVIL 255 



A\ holly 1)1-0 wnish-yellow in color, including all parts. It was reared 

 from four different lots, and though very large for the weevil is, I 

 believe, an occasional parasite of it. (795° 3g) 



(7) Braconid — 4 specimens. -This was reared from two lots secured 

 from widely separated points on the same estate. It resembles the 

 Sigalphus sp. at first sight, but has swollen hind tibia?, a wide and 

 heavy-set head, and the antennal scape is swollen and elongate. The 

 legs are mostlj^ light reddish, but barred with light brown. It is 

 very active, and unlike the Sigalphus can jump completely out from 

 the bottom of a 25 x 100 mm. glass tube in one jump. It is remark- 

 able for not appearing until long after all the other parasites as well 

 as the weevils have ceased issuing. Rearing records indicate not 

 less than 31-35 days. (795° 3q) 



(8) Braconid — 3 specimens. This is an elongate and rather large 

 blackish species, with brownish-yellow legs and antennse, and very 

 black conspicuous stigmal area in the forewing. The hind femora 

 are brown. (795° 3h) 



(9) Encyrtinse Gen. Nov.? (det. Crawford) — 2 specimens. Mr. 

 Crawford thinks this a doubtful weevil para3ite. One came from a 

 lot of newly-set bolls from the Rio Chira, and the other from squares 

 from the Rio Piura. 



(10) Braconid — 2 specimens. This is a small slender pale-colored 

 form. The al^domen is pale j^ellow with a brown dot on each side of 

 each segment, and the thorax has a pale brownish tinge. Stigma 

 pale. The specimens are from two lots. (795° 3o) 



(11) Braconid — 1 specimen from newly-set bolls. This looks much 

 at first sight like the Bracon sp., but is extremely active and distin- 

 guished at once by this peculiarity. Head and thorax brown or 

 blackish. Abdomen pale green with terminal one-half of tergum 

 brown, rest of tergum shaded with brown. Legs and antennae red- 

 dish-yellow. Ovipositor reddish, the sheaths dark. (795° 3u) 



It should be stated that the rearing-record periods could be taken 

 only from the last-issuing individuals of the lots. In some cases the 

 parasites may not have found their w^ay into the tubes promptly upon 

 issuing. Moreover the conditions were not strictly normal. 



The similar rearing-record periods for the weevil were 24-31 days, 

 and these seem about right for that time of the year — July and August, 

 the coolest months. 



Finally it may be noted that the talented Italian, Raimondi, who 

 spent 19 years of the last century in traveling over and investigating 

 the natural resources of nearly every corner of Peru, cites in his great 

 work "El Peru," vol. 2, page 278, the visit of D. Jorge Juan and D. 



