28 SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO TRUCK CROPS. 
a rearing jar with sand they burrowed down to the depth of an inch 
or a little more and surrounded themselves with a slight web. 
It is noticeable that this species was found only upon Lima beans 
in its occurrence in California. 
An ichneumon-fly parasite (Chttn. No.1412°) issued October 19 
to October 30, 1908. 
As a very complete systematic bibliography is published by Doctor 
Dyar,” and, moreover, as the titles cited have little bearing on the 
matter in point, bibliographical references will be omitted in the 
present paper. Admitting that zinckenella and schisticolor are syno- 
nyms,the Dyar catalogue furnishes no less than fourteen synonyms, 
the species having been given that number of specific names by differ- 
ent writers, the list including six by Walker. 
No opportunity has presented itself for experiments in the reme- 
dial control of the insect, and unless it should be held in check by 
natural enemies it is probably destined to be a pest during some 
seasons, in loealities where it has become well established, on Lima 
beans. 
a Bul. 52, United States National Museum, p. 428, 1902. 
