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Melitara prodenialis Walker. Florida (H. G. Hubbard) ; New Jersey (J. B. 



Smith) ; Biloxi, Miss., September (W. W. Tracy). 

 Melitara dentata Grote. Trinidad. Colo. (D. Griffiths). 

 *Mclitara fernaldialis Hulst. Santa Fe and Albuquerque, N. Mex., and Tucson. 



Ariz. (F. C. Pratt), on Opuntia; Tucson, Ariz. (H. G. Hubbard), on 



Ccrats giganteus. 

 Platynota rostrama Walker. Brownsville. Tex.. May (J. P. Mitchell). 



Reared from Opuntia fruit. Reared in Florida by Dyar from Rivinia, Ran- 



dia, and Gnaphaliurn. 

 Dyotopasta yumaella Kearfott. Brownsville, Tex. (J. D. Mitchell) and Arizona. 



Breeds in fruit of Opuntia. 

 Marmara opuntiella Busck. At the following localities in Texas: Corpus 



Christi, Brownsville (J. D. Mitchell), San Antonio, Kerrville (F. C. Pratt), 



Marble Falls, New Braunfels (D. Griffiths). Mines beneath epidermis of 



joints. 



IIYMENOrTERA. 



Polistcs rubiginosm Lepeletier. Corpus Christi, Tex.. August (J. I>. Mitchell). 



This and the following species feed as adults on cracked fruit and some- 

 times on sound fruit of Opuntia. 



* Polistes flams Cresson. Arizona (H. G. Hubbard). 



Polish v texanus Cresson. Alice. Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Tex., October 

 (J. D. Mitchell) : San Antonio, Tex. (F. C. Pratt). 



DIPTERA. 



Ceddomyia opuntiw Felt. Beared in New York from joints of a European 



Opuntia (O. banburjana) and also from a West Indian species. 

 Asphondylia opuntia} Felt. Los Angeles, Cal., April (I). Griffiths): Ash Fork, 

 Ariz., May (I). Griffiths); Organ Mountains. N. Mex.. January (D. Grif- 

 fiths) ; Sinton. Victoria, Kennedy. Corpus Christi. Brownsville, Hondo, 

 Cotulla, and Hallettsville. Tex. (J. D. Mitchell) ; Beeville, Tex., March 

 (F. C. Pratt) : San Luis Potosi, Mex. (D. Griffiths). 

 Breeds in fruit of Opuntia. 

 Asphondylia betheli Cockerel]. Colorado. 



In fruit of Opuntia. 

 Asphondylia arimonensis Felt. Arizona. 



Reared from "enlargement of prickly pear." 



PARASITES OR ENEMIES OF THE INJURIOUS SPECIES. 

 IIEMIPTERA. 



* 8mea raptoria Stal. Tucson, Ariz. 



* Diplodus luridus Stal. Tucson, Ariz. 



COLEOPTERA. 



Exochomus la tin soul its Casey. Corpus Christi. Seguin. San Antonio. Tex.. 



March, October (F. C. Pratt); Cotulla and Beeville, Tex.. April (J. D. 



Mitchell). 

 Exochomus marginipermis Le Conte. Corpus Christi. Hondo, Tex. (J. D. 



Mitchell) ; Seguin, Tex.. October (F. C. Pratt). 

 Hippodaniia convergent Guerin. Los Angeles, Cal., June (F. C. Pratt). 

 Feeds on aphides on Opuntia. 



