Embnk Strniid: Nomdnklftl . NdM/.cn üIxt Sc-liliipfwfspen ubw. 121 



unzugänglich, jcd(jch war Herr Dr. E. Strand so freundlich, mir 

 ein englisches Referat über die Vidalsche Arbeit mitzuteilen, aus: 

 The Review of Apphed Entomology I. A. p. 339, 1913. Vielleicht 

 ist es angebracht, dieses Referat hier zu zitieren: 



,,The author points out the danger, Avhich c-xists in thosc 

 districts in which this vegetable is cultivated on a large scale 

 of an extraordinary Invasion of Vanessa cirdui and also of a 

 Noctuid, which he believes to be Xanthoecia flavago Schiff. The 

 caterpillars of the former live entirely upon the parenchyma of the 

 leaves on the upper surface. It has been remarked that everywhere 

 where the artichoke leaves have not sufficcd for the food of the 

 swarmes of larvae the}^ have migrated to cardoons. The swarms 

 make their appearance about the time when the growth of the 

 artichoke plants is complete in the South of France, and the da- 

 mage consists in shipping the leaves and preventing the maturation 

 of the heads. Spraying and dushing with insecticides appear to be 

 absolutely without effect. Arsenical sprays have not been used 

 and the growers have been driven to cutting off the attacked leaves 

 and burning them. M. Benard of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 

 lias examined a large number of pupae of Vanessa collected from 

 artichoke gardens and has discovered that almost everyonc is 

 parasitised by a Chalcid. 



Unfortunately this is not the case with the second pest above 

 mentioned, which has become exceedingly serious because it 

 attackes, in the late season of growth, the stem which support the 

 artischokes and the artischokes themselves. The period of fruiting 

 of the artischoke coincides with the development of this' Noctuid, 

 the larva of which, beginning in the axil of the leaves, bores into 

 the stem and eats out the pith, so finding its way into the interior 

 of the flower. Its attack is occasionally made also either from 

 within or from without upon the capitulum or the bracts. The 

 life history of this pest has not yet been properl}^ studied, and the 

 auther says that the only method at present of dealing wdth it 

 is to examine the plants carefully and to burn any branches which 

 appear to be attacked." 



Oristano, Sardinien, Mai 1914. 



Nomenklatorische Notizen über Schlupf 

 Wespen und eine Staphylinidengattung, 



Von 



Embrik Strand. 



Pimpla pedator Tosquinet 1903 (in: Mem. Soc. entom. Bel- 

 gique X, p. 83) ist verschieden von Pimpla pedator Brülle 1846 

 (in: Hist. nat. Insect. Hym. IV, p. 94 n. 14); beide gehören zur 



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