ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, NVITII EXAMPLES 



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in his reply he said; "The hymenoptcrous parasite bred by 

 you from a lepidopterous hirva came a couple of days ago and 

 I have examined it with much interest. It falls into the tribe, 

 Campoplegini, and into Foster's genus, Anephares. No species 

 is yet known in the North American fauna and you xoill he safe 

 in describing it as new. Of course it might be described under 

 the genus Limneria (now Limnerium) somewhere, but I know 

 most of the species described in this genus in our fauna, and all 

 are quite different from your specimen." 



This new species, which I will now call by its new scientific 

 name, Anephares rufipes, or the red-legged Anephare.s, is three- 

 eighths of an inch in length. Its body is black; its legs and 

 ovipositor being reddish brown. The caterpillar from which the 

 grub emerged showed signs of life for several hours after the 

 parasite had left its body, and gradually shrank into a hairy 



ball, perhaps one-third its 



original size, before life was 



entirely extinct. I have 



figured the caterpillar, 



with the new species 



and its cocoon, in 



the initial illus- 



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The Ant-Lion 



OW often we are surprised at the 

 fertility of animal life in supposedly 

 uninhabited places! Who but the 

 naturalist would look to a small area 

 ' sand, supporting scant vegetation, as an 

 habitat for certain iiisecls! To such a 

 Duly about five yards in extent, on the top 

 of a bluff' bordering Lake ^Michigan, I have often 

 made visits to view the performances of the ant- 

 lions. When the sun shone brightly for a day or 

 two during the heat of summer this place was always an 



