INSECT NOTES FOR IQI2. 455 



Apatela funerolis. 



The red headed sooty black caterpillars, each segment with 

 transversely elliptical pale yellow mark margined with orange, 

 were found on the Campus at Orono, Aug. i, feeding on 

 Cornus stolonifera. Lot 1553. 



Tortrix fumifcrana (Spruce bud moth). 

 Bpinotia piceafoliana and Recurvaria piceaella. 

 These Tortricids were bred from larvae found feeding upon 

 the leaves of red and white .spruces, in the spring of 1912 at 

 Orono and elsewhere. An account of their life history will be 

 given in a later bulletin. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



A PARASITE OF THE BROWNTAIL MOTH. 



Monodontomerus aereus. (Chalcidae) 



Walker, Ent. Mag. II, 158, 1834. 



Mayr, Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. XXIV, p. 71, 1874. 



L. O. Howard and W. F. Fiske Bui. 91, Bureau of Entomology, 



U. S. Dept. Agr. p. 245, 250, 1911. 



"Female. Bronze, somewhat shining, quasi squamose, pubescent. 

 Mandibles reddish fuscous ; eyes and ocelli reddish ; antennae black, 

 pubescent, first joint bronze; squamulse reddish fuscous. Abdomen a 

 greenish bronze, smooth, apex sparsely pubescent, not longer than the 

 thorax, apical segment bronzy; ovipositor red, scarcely exceeding half 

 the length of the abdomen ; tegmina black, pubescent. Legs reddish 

 fuscous, pubescent; coxae and femora dusky greenish bronze; tarsi red, 

 paler under the base, tip more dusky. Wings hyaline, iridescent; veins 

 fuscous, stigma moderate in size. Length of body about 1-8 inch, wing 

 about 3-16 inch." (Walker). 



The occurrence of this parasite of the Brown tail moth at 

 Walpole, Maine, was noted in Insect Notes for 1911 (p. 243, 

 Bui. 195, Maine Agr. Exp. Sta. ). Other Maine localities from 

 which the species 'has been taken either by us or by the repre- 

 sentatives of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, are Strouclwater, Leeds Center, Bridgton, Vassalboro, 

 Richmond, Brunswick, Freeport, Poland, Gray, Windham, 

 Portland, Sebago, Cornish, Wells, Berwick, York, and Kittery. 



