1896.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 319 



Dr. Skinner reported the capture of Thecla jada Hew. at 

 Tucson, Ariz., by Dr. Kunze May 28. 



No further business being presented the meeting adjourned to 

 the annex at 10.30 p.m. Theo. H. Schmitz, Secretary. 



Xtie Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following paper was read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in Entomological News : 



PARASITES OF SPIDER EGGS. 



By A. Davidson, M.D., Los Angeles, Cal. 



Mr. L. O. Howard, in vol. ii, No. 3, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash,, 

 has given a complete summary of the hymenopterous parasites 

 of spiders known at that date, and Dr. McCook, in the third 

 volume of his work on "Spiders and their Spinning Work," 

 has further enlarged the list of known parasites, but has somehow 

 overlooked one important one that I had already discovered and 

 reported in " Insect Life," vol. v, No. i. 



The parasites of spider eggs are, with the exception of Eu- 

 pelmiis piceus, quite rare here, and the following are all I have 

 observed in this district during the last four or five years: 



Pimpla aqtdlo7iia Cress. ? from egg-sacs of Argiope argentaia 

 and Tlieridium tepidariorum. 



Pimpla rufopectus Cress, on Argiope argentata. 



Hemiteles davidsoyiii Ashm. n. sp. I discovered one specimen 

 of this species of which a description by Mr. Ashmead is here- 

 with appended among the eggs of a Laterigrade ? on a shrub of 

 Tetradymia in Bear Valley 6000 feet altitude. The insect hatched 

 out in December. 



Enpehiius piceus Riley. Very common on Argiope argeiitata; 

 once observed on Phidippus opifex McC. 



Gaurax aranece Coq. n. sp. on Epeira angulata and Lathro- 

 dectus mactans (see the appended description). 



Sarcophaga davidsonii Coq. on Phidippus opifex and Argiope 

 argentata. 



