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It was recorded by Kirkaldy (Hawaiian Forester & At»r!- 

 cultiirist, 1, 1904, p. 209) as a parasite of OiDiodc.^ urccpta 

 Butler^ and of several nnspecified Tineids and Tortricids from 

 Perkins' rearings. Perkins (Proc. Haw. Ent. StK*. 1, 1906, 

 ]). 44) recorded it with other parasites from Omiodcs, Ag)otis, 

 ]'aiK'ssa and Scoiorythra, so that some of these records ahnost 

 certainly do not apply to this species. Swezey in 1907 (Ent. 

 Bid].. ."), Exper. Stat. H. S. P. A., p. 43) recorded it from 

 Perkins' rearings as a parasite of Omiodes acccpta and (). 

 hlacl'hiinii Bntler, Azinis hilarella now known to be EtJnina 

 rolonella Walsingham, and two species of Caroccui. at present 

 known as Arcliips postvittmius (Walker) and Atnorhia oni- 

 gratella Bnsck. In 1915 Swezey (Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, -'5, 

 p. 105) recorded it from the following additional hosts: Cryp- 

 tohlabes aliena Swezev, Euhyposmocoma el-aha Swezey, Crypto- 

 phlebia iUeplda (Bntler), Pectinophora gossypiella (Sannders) 

 and Hyposmocorim liturata Walsingham. More recently ]\Ir. 

 Bridwell has reared it from Cryptophlrhia rulpc.'^ Walsingham 

 as well as from C. illepida. 



It always issnes from the pnpae of its hosts, and pnpates 

 nearly nakedly within the empty pnpal shell, as the larva does 

 not spin a definite cocoon although it does line the shell with 

 a coinparati\'ely small amount of silk. 

 Itoplectis immigrans n. sp. 



A rather shining black species, Avith the first five segments 

 of abdomen ferruginous, which in the non-em arginate clypeus, 

 the deeply emarginate eyes, somewhat attenuated antennae, 

 short cheeks, the simple claws of the middle and hind tarsi, 

 obsolete notauli, rather small oval spiracles, and nervellus 

 broken far above the middle agrees with Itoplectis, although the 

 pubescence is neither especially long nor recumbent, and the 

 front claws are also simple. The peculiar coarse and rugose 

 eculptnre of the abdomen is similar to that of certain species of 

 Ilemipimpla. 



9 . — Head, mandibles, thorax and apex of abdomen rather shining 

 lilack ; the first five tergites of abdomen and sides of the sixth nearly 



