INSECT NOTES FOR I912. 455 



A'pateJa fvineralis. 



The red headed sooty black caterpillars, each segment with 

 transversely elliptical pale yellow mark margined with orange, 

 were found on the Campus at Orono, Aug. i, feeding on 

 Cornus stolonifera. Lot 1553. 



Tortrix'fumiferana (Spruce bud moth). 



Bpinotia ,piceafoliana and Recvirvaria piceaella. 



These Tortricids were bred from larvse found feeding upon 



the leaves of red and white spruces, in the spring oi 1912 at 



Orono and elsewhere. An account of their Hfe history will be 



given in a later bulletin. 



HYMENOPTERA. 



A PARASITE OF THE BROWNTAIL MOTH. 



Monodontovterus aereus. (Chalcidae) 



Walker, Ent. Mag. II, 158, 1834.- 



Mayr, Verb. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien. XXIV, p. 71, 1874. 



L. O. Howard and W. F. Fiske Bui. 91, Bureau of Entomology, 



U. S. Dept. Agr. p. 245, 250, 191 1. 



"Female. Bronze, somewhat shining, quasi squamose-, pubescent. 

 Mandibles reddish fuscous ; eyes and ocelli reddish ; antennas black, 

 pubescent, first joint bronze; squamulse reddish fuscous. Abdomen a 

 greenish bronze, smooth, apex sparsely pubescent, not longer than the 

 thorax, apical segment bronzy; ovipositor red, scarcely exceeding half 

 the length of the abdomen ; tegmina black, pubescent. Legs reddish 

 fuscous, pubescent ; coxs and femora dusky greenish bronze ; tarsi red, 

 paler under the base, tip more dusky. Wings hyaline, iridescent ; veins 

 fuscous, stigma moderate in size. Length of body about 1-8 inch, wing 

 about 3-16 inch." (Walker). 



The occurrence of this parasite of the Browntail moth at 

 Walpole, Maine, was noted in Insect Notes for 191 1 (p. 243, 

 Bui. 195, Maine Agr. Exp. Sta. ). Other Maine localities from 

 which the species has been taken either by us or by the repre- 

 sentatives of the Bureau of Entomology, L". S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, are Stroudwater, Leeds Center, Bridgton, Vassalboro. 

 Richmond, Brunswick, Freeport, Polanfl, Gray, Windham, 

 Portland, Sebago, Cornish, Wells, Berwick, York, and Kittery. 



