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Perisemus prolongatus Provancher. Reared at La- 

 fayette, Indiana, August 28, 1888, from the larvae of Crambns 

 caliginosellus Clem. Originally described in Can. Nat., XII, 

 p. 265. 



Haltichella xanticles Walk. Described in Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. Ser. 2, I, p. 147, from Florida. Reared at Columbus, 

 Ohio, from cocoons of Solenobia walshella Clem., found under 

 loose bark of dead Beech tree. 



Derostenus leucopus Ashmead. Habitat, Kansas. 

 Reared from leaf miner in Beech, near Wooster, Ohio. De- 

 scribed in Bull. 3, Exp. Sta. Kan. St. Agl. Coll., June, 1888. 



Goniozus COI/umbianus Ashmead. Habitat, Washington, 

 D. C. Captured in folds of leaf of Sycamore, probably made 

 by a Pyralid larva. Wooster, Ohio, October 5, 1893. De- 

 scribed in Bull 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 76. 



Lysiphlebus rap^ Curtis. This is a foreign species 

 described in England, and figured in Curtis' British Ento- 

 mology. Reared by myself at Lafayette, Indiana, from ApJiis 

 brassiccz Linn, infesting Scutch Kale, and also at Wooster, 

 Ohio, from same host infesting Rape. A field of this plant 

 on the Experiment Station Farm became infested with not 

 only this Aphis, but also by the larvae of the Diamond-back 

 Cabbage Moth, and Pieris rapce, Linn, with their Dipterous 

 and Hymenopterous enemies. From leaves of these rape 

 plants were reared, besides this and Allotria brassicce, the 

 following four species. 



Isocratus vulgaris Walker. Reared at Wooster, Ohio, 

 w r ith the preceding from Aphis brassier. Described in Ento- 

 mological Magazine, Vol. II, p. 151. 



Limneria tibiator Cresson. Reared with the preceding. 

 Described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Ill, p. 259, 1864. Habitat, 

 Illinois and New Jerse}'. 



Limneria rivalis Cresson. Reared with the preceding. 

 Habitat, Texas. Described in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. IV, 

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