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JAMES WATERSTON. — CHALCIDOIDEA BRED FROM GLOSSINA. 



This is a very slightly smaller form than the type, which was bred from Glossina 

 jtalpalis, the abdomen ( $) being entirely dark and the second mid tarsal joint in 

 many examples about one-seventh longer. In all other respects the agreement 

 is complete. This is the material referred to in Bull. Ent. Res., v, p. 382 (1915). 



The nature of the relation of these three Chalcidoids to Glossina morsitans is not 

 yet determinable. The Anastatus is probably a true parasite and therefore a 

 beneficial insect ; of the Stomatoceras nothing can be affirmed. The Syntomosphyrum 

 belongs to a group containing both parasites and hyperparasites, and may be either 

 a useful controller of the fly, or a useless destroyer of a natural enemy. 



[Including the foregoing species, we now know of seven insects which are parasitic 

 on Glossina, five being Hymenoptera and two Diptera. The following is a list 

 of them : — 



Parasite. 



Host. 



Locality. 



Collector. 



MUTILLIDAE 



Mutilla glossinae, Turn. . . 



G. morsitans 



N. Rhodesia 



R. A. F. Eminson. 



Proctotrupidae — 



Conostigmus rodJiaini, Beq. 



Chalcididae — 



Stomatoceras micans, Wtst. 



G. palpalis 

 G. morsitans 



Katanga, 

 Belgian Congo 



N. Rhodesia 



J. Bequaert. 



R. A. F. Eminson. 



Enctrtidae — 



Anastatus viridiceps, Wtst. 



♦» 



» 



LI. Lloyd. 



Edlophidae — 



Syntomosphyruin glossinae, 



Wtst. 



G. palpalis 

 G. morsitans 



Uganda 



N. Rhodesia 



Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter. 

 R. A. F. Eminson. 



BOMBYLIIDAE 



Thyridanthrax ahrvptus, Lw. 

 Villa lloydi, Aust 



G. morsitans 

 if 



S. Rhodesia 

 N. Rhodesia 



R. W. Jack. 

 LI. Lloyd. 



-Ed.] 



