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jiiiddle right leg. Afterward she began dragging it ahout by 

 the ijiouth as before. Having occasion to transfer her to 

 auotlier tnbe, I attempted to shake the contents of the tu])e 

 into another. Severe shaking failed to dislodge her from 

 The larva and the larva being held in the tube by a silken 

 rliicail. a needle was inserted into the tulje and the thread 

 canght npon it and the Holepyris and her prey were trans- 

 ferrfMl from the one tube to the other without her losing her 

 hold. The larva during this time was far from being com- 

 pletely ])aralyzed, only the uiouth ])arts seeming to 1)0 in- 

 (•a})al)le of motion. Sometimes she was able to get the 

 larva to move itself in the desired direction, at others it was 

 al)le to resist her utmost efforts to drag it as she wished. 



(Jn Sept. 22, the female had placed one of the two larvae 

 in the narrowed portion of the tube and one egg had been 

 laid, this time on the glass, opposite the dorsal posterior part 

 of the larva. The other larva had been sucked nearly dry. 

 On being placed with fresh larvae, she attacked as before and 

 stung the larva at the throat. She was observed feeding near 

 the anal extremity. Afterward she dragged the larva about 

 as before. 



She died soon after without laying further eggs. 



This species was common during Dec, 1919, in the 

 warehouses of the .I^nion Feed Comjiany in Kakaako. About 

 two dozen were taken on December 10 to 12 and placed three 

 or four together in test tubes with some larvae of the moths 

 found in stored products there. Tt was not long until some 

 of them pounced upon the larvae and after a struggle be- 

 gan leading them about as had ])revi<)nsly been observed. 

 The wasps did not appear to molest each other, though one 

 l)assing another at work would seem interested in what it 

 was doing. On the other hand the ]-»resence of several larvae 

 in the same part of the tu1)e seemed to cause some confusion 

 (»n the part of the wasp at work, for sometimes after leaving 

 lier prey for an instant she would mistake another larva for 

 the one she had been attackino-. 



