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have been reared in the United States from FhifeJIa macuJl- 

 pennis Curtis and this is the usual host here. It is also not 

 unlikely that this species occurs in Europe and an earlier name 

 may possibly be found for it. 



Braconidae. 



Ephedrus incompletus (Provancher). Our Ephedrm was 

 determined by Mr. Gahan as Provancher's species. It has 

 been reared by the writer from a g-reen species of Marrosi- 

 phum on rose bushes at Honolulu, and Mr. Swezey obtained it 

 from the same host at Wailuku, Maui, on June 18, 1916. 

 This species seems to have been first collected by Dr. Lyon 

 on April 18, 1914, on the same host. 



Diaeretus cJiowpodiaphidis (Ashmead). Our species of 

 Diaeretus is not rapae (Curtis), but Ashmead's species which 

 is chiefly distinguished by having 13 antennal joints in the 

 female and 16 in the male, instead of 14 and 17 respectively, 

 and by a slight difl^erence in coloration and sculpture. This 

 species has been reared from ApJiis hrassicae Linnaeus, and 

 Rhopalosiplium persicae (Sulzer) from several localities near 

 Honolulu. 



Di)iocampus termlnatiis (Xees). The writer has examined 

 specimens of this species from Hungary ; Barcelona, Spain ; 

 Palroa, l^ew Zealand; Fiji; Okitsu, Japan; and from many 

 localities in the United States from Massachusetts and Virginia 

 to California and Washington. Perkins also records it from 

 Queensland, Australia. Perilifus americanus Piley and Eu- 

 pliorus sculptus Cresson are synonyms, (the latter synonymy 

 taken from a female in the ]Srational Museum which was com- 

 ])ared with Cresson's type by Mr. R. A. Cushman). The 

 species is extremely constant throughout its vast range, and 

 although there is a slight variation in color this seems to be 

 independent of its geogTaphic distribution. In the Hawaiian 

 Islands it was probably introduced with Olla abdominalis 

 (Say) from l^orth America, but it now usually attacks Coel- 



