22 INDIAN FOREST INSECTS 



Other species of Chalcid and Pompilius are parasitic upon the Polygraphiis 

 and 1'iiinicns bark-boring beetles (pp. 519 and 556). 



The Ichneumon Ephinltes viridipennis is parasitic upon the deodar 

 buprestid Sphetwptera (p. 204). 



Another Ichneumon, Ophion anreolatus, Cameron, is parasitic upon the 

 horse-chestnut defoliator, A crony da anacdina. 



Species of (Jlvpta and Pimpla are parasitic upon the caterpillars of the 

 teak defoliator, Hyblu'u pucra. 



A species of Mcteuncs is parasitic upon the caterpillar (Tinea sp.) 

 defoliating the Kharshu oak, Q. semicarpifolia. 



Species of Chalcididae are parasitic upon Polygraphus major (p. 507) 

 and upon defoliating Lymantria caterpillars in Assam. 



Again, a small Bracon fly is parasitic upon the bark-beetle Scolytns 

 minor (p. 577). 



A small two-winged fly, like the ordinary house-fly, a species of 

 Mascicera (Diptera), is parasitic upon the teak-defoliator Hyblcza puera, 

 whilst another species of probably the same genus is parasitic upon the 

 caterpillars of the moth Enblcmma amabilis which feed parasitically upon the 

 lac insect (Tachardia lacca). 



A species of Trigonomerus is parasitic upon the Pin its longifolia 

 Cecidomyia fly. 



