SPRUCE BUDWORM. Q.'J 



This species was bred from specimens sent to us from 

 Greenville Junction in 191 1 as well as from material brought 

 by Mr. Wm. C. Woods from Houlton, July, 1912. Lot 1544. 

 It so closely resembles Piinpla inquisitor that Fig. i will give 

 a sood idea of this beneficial insect. 



PiinpIa coiiquisitor Say. 



Say. American Entomology Vol. II. iS6q p. 68q. {Cry plus.) 



"C. Coiiquisitor. Black; tergum with the posterior margins of the 



segments white ; feet honey-yellow ; posterior tibiae and tarsi with black 



joints. 



"Inhabits Indiana. 



"Body black, punctured; palpi white; thorax, punctures minute: a 

 longitudinal white line before the wings : metathorax not distinctly 

 punctured on the disk : wings very slightly tinged with dusky ; nervures 

 blackish ; stigma rather large, with its base and tip whitish ; second 

 cubital cellule oblique: tergum densely punctured on every part; seg- 

 ments on their posterior narrow margins white: oviduct about half the 

 length of the abdomen: feet honey-yellow; intermediate and posterior 

 tarsi white, the joints black at their tips : posterior tibiae black, white in 

 the middle. 



"Length one-fourth of an inch. 



"Resembles inquisitor nob., but the posterior margins of the segments 

 •of the tergum are white." 



This species was bred from the budworm by Professor Fer- 

 nald years ago. 



Apanteles sp. ( Bracoiiidae ) has been reared by us from the 

 spruce budworms which were collected near Orono. Lots i486, 

 1509. 1 5 10. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entomologist records rear- 

 ing a number of species from the budworm in Canada. These 

 have recently been described by H. L. Viereck, in Vol. 42, Pro- 

 ceedings of the United States National Museum. The species 

 are Apanteles fumiferanae, Meteorus trachynotus, Conohlasta 

 fwniferanae, Phygadcnon (Dirophanes) pl'esius, Bpiurus inno- 

 minatus and Mesochonts di^'ersicolor, of which the first four 

 are from province Quebec, the last two from British Columbia. 

 Nasonia tortricis Brues is another Canadian species parasitic 

 -on the spruce budworm. 



