506 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Utilise the Aphidius, and to try if it is sufficiently foro;etfiil of 

 its former habitation to provide another kind of home for its 

 descendants. Some thousands may be transferred while they 

 are secure in the Aphides, which are to them food and shelter, 

 to gardens, where the multitude of Aphides seem to require 

 their presence. — Francis Walker. 



On Parasitism of CJialcidicd. — I will add a few lines to 

 what I have already transcribed of the observations of 

 M. Goureau and of others on parasitism. The following 

 observations are incomplete, but they may be the means of 

 directing some one to a more perfect investigation of the 

 matter. He obtained an Aphidius from the Aphis of the 

 willow, and two species from that of the peach (one apparently 

 A. obsoletus, IVesm). The Aphis of the rose supplied him 

 with a Cynipid, black, with the head and legs red (not 

 erythrocephalus, Jar., uor fulviceps. Curt.), and this Cynipid 

 and an Aphidius emerged from the Aphis of the plum: these 

 two are probably the same parasites that I have acquired from 

 H. Pruni in England. An Encyrtus, with black-bordered 

 wings, came forth from Coccus Festucae, and Cheiloneurus 

 elegans (?) from Chermes Lauricerasi. A very minute En- 

 cyrtus (?) was the result of Aspidiotus Rosse, and unspecified 

 Aphides were the victims of Elassus (^Fes;«. = Ephedrus, 

 Hal.) parvicornis, Coryna clavata, a Sphegigaster, and au 

 Ormocerus. Perilampus laevifrons issued from a larva that 

 feeds on pears. Cecidomyia Verbasci of Vallot and of 

 L. Dufour is the victim of Misocampus (Callimome) nigri- 

 cornis, L. Duf., and of Eulophus Verbasci, Vallot and 

 L. Duf. ; this last species and Tetrastichus Armasus are 

 perhaps identical. The genus Stomoclea, L. Duf, is probably 

 one of the Eulophidae, and S. pallipes, L. Duf, has been 

 reared by that author from galls of Scrophularia. Eulophus 

 crinicornis, whose economy has been observed by Ferris, is a 

 Tetrastichus. — Frauds Walker. 



Notes on Southern Indian Lepidoptera. 

 By William Watkins. 



(Continued from p. 470.) 

 Thayetmyo, British Burmah, is a military station, some 

 three hundred miles north from Rangoon, on the right bank 



