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in which its host was breeding, the eggs of the parasite must have 
been thrust through the cloth covering of the jar, which contained 
only fresh material, and 
there had been no ex- 
posure of its contents 
and no other manner 
for the parasites to have 
obtained access to this 
jar. Particulars in re- 
gard to this are fur- 
nished in an early pub- 
heation of this bureau.“ 
Pediculoides ventrico- 
sus Newp.—The third 
count of eggs laid by Q + 
this moth, related on a Nic. 3.—Hadrobracon hebetor, a parasite of the fig moth : 
preceding page, was pro- Adult female ; antenna of male at left. Greatly en- 
ductive of an unexpected larged. (Author’s illustration.) 
result in establishing the mite Pediculoides ventricosus as an egg 
parasite. In a glass tube in which a copulating pair of the moths 
Fic. 4.—Omorga frumentaria, a parasite of the fig moth. Lateral view. Greatly en- 
larged. (Original.) 
was confined, about a score of mites of this species was found, some 
attacking and sucking out the contents of the eggs, while numer- 
[Sheol 
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“Bul. 8, n. s., Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, p. 41. 
