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coccids. About June they undergo metamorphosis into pupae, one week 

 later, they turn into imagoes when they emerge from the body of the 

 mother coccid. Thus, either one or two of the young live on the eggs of 

 a mother coccid. Since the parasite take up 50% of eggs of the mother, 

 the damage done is quite considerable. 



2. Dasyneura sp 

 (DIPTERA: Cecidomyidae) . 



Imago : 1 mm. length. Head and thorax brown ; abdomen yellowish 

 brown; antennae and legs light yellowish brown. Compound eyes large 

 and dark brown. Antennae rather long, composed of 14 segments; first 

 two segments globular in shape, the following segments, in the female, 

 somewhat compressed in the middle and provided each with 8 hairs. The 

 middle depression of the antennal segments is still more remarkable in 

 the male than in the female, giving an appearance of two distinct 

 segments laid side by side; a raw of 8 hairs and a long curved filament 

 encircle the basal part of the segment; the terminal part of the segment 

 has two rows of 8 hairs and two curved filaments growing around it. 

 Mouth parts generally degenerated. Forewings broad and having slight 

 veins. Pubescence over the whole body. Abdomen broad and thick. 



Insects belonging to Cecidomyidae generally live on buds, leaves, 

 twigs and roots of ordinary plants causing them to form galls on the 

 affected parts. It is only in exceptional cases that they lead a parasitic 

 life on aphyd, mites and other cecidormyid insects. The present species 

 is one of these exceptions but the percentage of those that are parasites 

 is comparatively small. 



3. Charcis-ply 

 (HYMENOPTERA: Charcididae). 



Prof. Sasaki has given a description of an unnamed species of charcis- 

 fiy that is parasitic on young female coccids. I have not been fortunate 

 enough to collect the imago of the fly, so that nothing further can be 

 said. 



