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and makes its escape (plate V^ Fm). While most of the larvae 

 inherit the instinct to cut the hole through the body-wall of the 

 Kcrmcs large enough for their bodies to pass through, some 

 apparently fail to make the exit holes quite large enough for 

 the adults to leave their hosts, for several imagoes have been 

 found dead in their retreats with their heads through the open- 

 ings or with parts of their bodies through the exit holes (plate 

 \^, Fm), not being able to enlarge in the least the hole through 

 the hard body- wall of the Kermcs. 



Supposed Occurrence in Gales. 



At Corsicana, Navarro County, and at Bryan, Brazos County, 

 Texas, some limbs of post oaks, Oiicrciis stellata Wang., bore 

 numerous specimens of Kcrmcs galliformis Riley which were 

 badly infested by this oecophorid parasite. They also bore 

 numerous hymenopterous galls which resembled in size and 

 shape the specimens of Kcrmcs. Many of these galls con- 

 tained clean-cut holes resembling in general appearance those 

 made by Eiiclcmcnsia basscttcUa (Clemens). In order to as- 

 certain whether or not Bassett, as quoted by Clemens (1864), 

 and Packard (18906) were correct in their previous state- 

 ments that this lepidopteron bred in galls, many of these galls 

 were collected and enclosed in rearing cages. vSome time in 

 July several specimens of a large hymenopterous insect emerg- 

 ed from the gall material. Specimens sent to Dr. Howard on 

 thirty-first of July were returned in early August with the 

 following notes : "The insect which you considered to be a 

 gall-maker is a species of CaUiuwuic, not a gall-maker, but a 

 parasite on some gall maker. It is a Chalcidid of the family 

 Toryminac, but undeterminable specifically. It is possible that 

 it is a parasite of the Buclcmcnsia.''' 



The writers would refute this latter possibility, however, be- 

 cause the several hymenopterous galls were placed in separate 

 rearing jars from the Kcnucs material, and from the gall 

 material Hymcnoptcra alone emerged. Furthermore, there is 

 no possibility of Callimome being a parasite of Eiiclemensia 

 bassettella (Clemens) because the writers have never reared 

 the lepidopteron from the galls nor have lepidopterous larvae 



