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this latter pupated ; so the parasite can develop on very advanced 

 pupae, or perhaps we may say upon tenerous adults. In all 

 five adults have been bred from Bnichus prosopis, mostly lar- 

 vae. Since this paragraph was written I have bred this para- 

 site from Bruclius pruinimis under natural conditions in the 

 seeds of Seshania sesban. Mr. Timberlake has succeeded in 

 breeding five adult females from the cocoons of Caryohorus 

 gonagra. These were the progeny of a virgin female which I 

 had furnished him. Whether this species is more than an 

 occasional parasite of BrucJiidae is doubtful since it proves to 

 be the insect bred by Mr. Swezey from Isosoma and described 

 by Mr. Crawford as Eupelminus swezeyi (Insec. Ins. Menst. 

 2:181, 1914). By a lapsus calami Mr. Crawford assigns the 

 Isosoma from which it was bred to Johnson grass instead of 

 Bermuda grass. Mr. Swezey has also bred it from the cocoons 

 of Clielonus hiachburni and from a Gi-yptid cocoon. It was 

 taken as early as June, 1905, on Oahu by Mr. Swezey and in 

 May, 1900, on Kauai by Mr. Terry and it was doubtless an 

 immigrant from the Orient since there are five specimens in the 

 collection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association taken 

 by Mr. Muir at Macao. 



This species differs so much from the type of the genus 

 Eupleminus, E. excavatus, that it must be placed in a separate 

 genus, particularly since specimens in the collection of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association represent another species 

 taken by Mr. Terry in China, agreeing with it in all the 

 generic characters. 



Charitopodinus gen. nov. 



Type Eupehniuas siuezey'i Crawford. 



Related to Charitopiis Foerster but with but one pair of rudimentary 

 wings in the female, the male unknown. Head broader than the thorax 

 or abdomen, convex before and behind, slightly concave at the insertion 

 of the neck, malar furrow very distinct, eyes oval, ocelli arranged in an 

 obtuse triangle upon the vertex ; antennae with scape cylindrical, slightly 

 curved, not quite half as long as the flagellum, flagellum slender, grad- 

 ually widening to the club, pedicel one-third longer than the first funicu- 

 lar joint, 1st funicular joint about half the length of the second, 2-4 



