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of the young reached the cocoon stage, and this was especially 
true of Baguio examples. 
ves following is a breeding record for T. segregata at Ho- 
nolulu: 

Wasp No. days kept No. eggs laid 
INO nye tlie iions cravareiieyie cc c.tes 60 40) 
IN 033 \Gib cic olor NECN Coe 60 28 
INOS Ae rayecete anise os 45 Gal 
INOS 2 Sree ce epee sie 41 64 
IN (Oba Oboe Waverserstoelivete 34 90 
TNI@S ats sie orcya © ORO CECE 27 27 
These and other 7Tiphia often frequent honey-dewed bushes, 
but I also took a number of 7. segregata by searching the tops 
of Cosmos plants growing in a Japanese garden near Baguio. 
The wasps had evidently retired there that afternoon to pass tne 
night. 
Tiphia ashmeadi Crawford. 
Length 8-10 mm.; black. 
T. ashmeadi is a fairly common insect at Los Banos. Adults 
were taken from the middle of May to the following February. 
Like the others of the genus, it passes the dryer season in the 
cocoon, though beginning to hibernate at a rather late date. 
Females were often seen on the surface of the soil in well-shaded 
places, where they were sometimes the center of attraction for 
several males and the scene of quite a tussle for her possession. 
The wasp parasitizes the grub of a lamellicorn beetle of the 
genus Autoserica or an ally, and which is readily identified by 
its large and very mobile palpi. This grub is more rarely found 
and more active than either Anomala or Adoretus. Philippine 
Anomala were not parasitized by this Tiphia, although the Jap- 
anese Anomala orientalis in Hawaii were to some extent. 
The egg is laid on the thorax, between the second and third 
pair of legs. What appears to be the same 7iphia also oviposits 
on segment 4 or 5 of the abdomen. The life-cycle is quite the 
briefest of the Scoliidae studied, and in the Philippines the wasp 
was the easiest species to handle. The cycle for the winter months 
at Honolulu, ranged from about eighteen to twenty-eight days, of 
which about three days were passed in the egg, and about thirteen 
