62 RESULTS FROM GIPSY MOTH PARASITE LABORATORY. 



Wo liave roared P. liyallnus from tho following hosts: 



Parasites <jf Hyphantria tp:xtoh Harris. 

 Tachinidae : 



Varichxta aldrichi Townsend . 



Covipsilura concinnata Meigen. 

 Ichneumonidae: 



Limnerium validum Cresson. 



Limnerium fugitivum Say. 



Limnerium pallipes Provancher. 

 Braconidoe : 



Apanteles hyphantriae Hiley . 



Meleorus communis Cresson. 

 Pteromalidse : 



Dihrachys boucheanus Ratzeburg (on Varichxta). 



Parasite op Eucii^tias egle Drury. 

 Tachinidoe: 



Genus and species undetermined. 

 Braconidse: 



Apanteles sp. 



Parasite of Melalopha inclusa Hubner. 



Ichneumonidae: 



Limnerium validum Cresson. 



Parasite of Samia cecropia Linn^us. 

 Tachinidse: 



Frontina Jrenchii Williston . 



OTHER AMERICAN REARING RECORDS OF PERILAMPUS. 



Throiigli the courtesy of Dr. L. O. Howard tho rearing records have 

 been obtained from the collection and biological notes of the Bureau 

 of Entomology. The species of Perilampus have not been deter- 

 mined. The hosts are all lepidopterous and are as follows: 



Dasypyga aUernosquamella Ragonot. 

 Acrohasis caryx Grote. 

 Eucosma scuddcriana Clemens. 

 Eucosrna desertana Zeller. 

 Phlyctxnia cxtricalis Guen6e. 

 Apalela haustulijera Smith and Abbot. 

 Earrisina americana Guerin-Meneville. 

 Retinia sp. (?) 



Prof. C. V. Riley records ^ Perilampus platygaster Say as a parasite 

 of Harrisina americana in the State of Missouri. 



A species of Perilampus was reared, according to tlie labels in the 

 United States National Museum, by Mr. D. W. Coquillett from the 

 (cocoon of a Chrysopa at Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. Ashmead also reared 



I Second Report on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Missouri, p. 87, 1870. 



