Oct—Dec., 1919 Bulletin of Brooklyn Entomological Society 141 
Diptera. 
TACHINID. 
Blepharipeza adusta Loew. (1). (identified by Dr. F. E. Lutz, 
eee) INE ee) 
Lepidoptera. 
LYCAENIDZ. 
Chrysophanus thoé Boisd. (2). 
Hemiptera. 
BELOSTOMID&. 
Belostoma fluminea Say (5) (identified by C. E. Olsen, A. M. 
ING Ee : 
Odonata. 
AGRIONIDZ. 
Ischnura verticalis Say (1). 
AESCHNID. 
Aeschna verticalis Hagen (1). 
KERMES KINGII COCKERELL, PARASITIZED BY A 
MICRO-LEPIDOPTERON. 
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a. 
By Curis. E. Otsen, W. Nyack, N. Y“ a 
On April 5, 1916, I collected some specimens of the gallmaking 
scale Kermes kingii Cockerell on red oak, for the cabinet. I 
placed them in little boxes in one of my cabinet drawers. Several 
weeks later upon opening this drawer I was rather astonished to 
find a few brightly colored micros and could not account for the 
presence of these in my cabinet, but paid no further attention to 
this until the next time I had occasion to open this drawer, when 
I noticed many more of the same little moth scattered over the 
bottom of this drawer (this must have been about the first part 
of May?). Upon closer examination I observed that they had all 
emerged from my Kermes kingii scale. Dr. Wm. T. M. Forbes, 
in a letter dated May 25, 1917, kindly identified this little moth as 
