Hymenopterous Parasites of Coleoptera. 469 
1108. BRACHYTARSUS VARIUS, Fab. 
Under the Chalcid: Zncyrtus sylvius, Nees (Mon., ii, 206) 
quotes Frisch. Ins., ix, 38: “Aber Anno 1730 hab’ ich 
fast in keinem die in Nummer xxi gemeldten Kifer 
gefunden”; and adds in a note: “ Insectum, a Frischio 
lc. descriptum, coleoptratum Dermestinorum ordinis est, 
uti ille Anthribus varius, quem cl. Dalman in Cocco Aceris 
illaeso a se inventum, non Cocci parasitam, sed fortuito e 
cortice arboris exclusum Coccum penetrasse conjicit. 
Verum cum Frischius noster larvam in Cocco observaverit 
ex eademque imaginem coleoptratam prodeuntem viderit, 
vix est, quod dubitemus, etiam <Anthribum varium in 
Coccis metamorphosin peragere.” This parasite is now 
well known to prey on Coccids. 
110, BRUCHUS. 
A Chalcid, parasitic in Canada upon an undetermined 
species of this genius, has been described by Ashmead 
(Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 1894, p. 328) under the name 
Bruchophagus borealis. There is some evidence of the 
probability of a member of the same genus having been 
introduced into Britain, along with its host, in 1910. 
llla. BRUCHUS MARGINELLUS, Fab.* 
Dours gives (Cat. Hym. France) Hupelmus DeCreeri, 
Dalm. (p. 89), Lurytoma rufipes, Walk. (p. 96), Pteromalus 
varius and P. affinis, Walk. (p. 104), as parasites, on 
Goureau’s authority, upon this species. 
118. Bruchus villosus, Fab. 
Ratzeburg also appears to have bred his Hntedon spartii 
(Ichn. d. Forst., 111. 211) from this host; and Rondani’s 
Sparthiophila bruchicida (Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital., 1872, p. 
208; fig. dz. cit., 1877, pl. ii, ff. 94-96), an allied parasite, 
was bred by him from #&. spartvi, with his Pteromalus 
latipes (1. c., 1874, p. 131, e¢ 1877, p. 194). 
119. Bruchus rufipes, Herbst.* 
From £&. nubilus, Boh., Dours records (Cat., 102, 107 e¢ 
108) Semiotus varians, Walk., Hulophus Coecilius, Walk., 
and Hntedon Pentheus, Walk., on the authority of Perris 
and Goureau. 
