22 INDIAN FOREST INSECTS 



Other species of Chalcid and Pouipilins are parasitic upon the Poly^raphm 

 and Toinicus bark-boring beetles (pp. 519 and 556). 



The Ichneumon Ephialtcs viridipcnnis is parasitic upon the deodar 

 buprestid Sphcnoptera (p. 204). 



Another Ichneumon, Ophion aureolatus, Cameron, is parasitic upon the 

 horse-chestnut defoliator, Acroiiycta anacdi)ia. 



Species of Glypta and Pimpla are parasitic upon the caterpillars of the 

 teak defoliator, Hyblwa puera. 



A species of Meteones is parasitic upon the caterpillar {Tinea sp.) 

 defoliating the Kharshu oak, Q. semicarpifolia. 



Species of Chalcididae are parasitic upon Poly <j^ra faints major (p. 507) 

 and upon defoliating Lyiiiantria caterpillars in Assam. 



Again, a small Bracon fly is parasitic upon the bark-beetle Scolytiis 

 minor (p. 577). 



A small two-winged fly, like the ordinary house-fly, a species of 

 Masciccra (Diptera), is parasitic upon the teak-defoliator Hyblwa puera, 

 whilst another species of probably the same genus is parasitic upon the 

 caterpillars of the moth Eublcmma amabilis which feed parasitically upon the 

 lac insect {Tachardia lacca). 



A species of Trigonomerus is parasitic upon the Pin us longifolia 

 Cecidomyia fly. 



