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for the larva outside its cocoon. At Honolulu and Waipio Sub- 
station on Oahu, T. H., some of the wasps lived for a consider- 
able period; one male in a life of six weeks mated with twenty- 
one females, and the latter sometimes lived for more than a 
month. 
The following table shows some of the best layers: 

Fig. 31. Tiphia ashmeadi, Aedeagus; la, side 
view of same; 2, side view of lateral piece; 
3, side view of median portion. 


| Approximate 
Wasp | No. days kept | No, Anomala | No. eggs laid 
| | grubs given 
Bigeye at | 32 | 81 | 43 
Dia eer kage al teeeees 26 66 9 
Hee eA are | 16 | 45 | 29 
CN ted ee ec | 24 | 66 | 33 


Only a few of the 7. ashmeadi eggs laid on Anomala grubs in 
Honolulu developed as far as the cocoon stage. Out of 291 
Ovipositions but twenty-six cocoons resulted. 
