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also added as hosts by Andre (Spec. Hym. d'Eur., pt. iv. p. 254, 1888), 
and Motschulsky as long ago as 1853 (fitudes Entomologiques, 1853, 
p. 22) mentions Hormius rubiginosw Nees as a parasite of Emobiiu 
mollis F., a p tin id now common to both continents and commonly 
found in old houses in the Old World. The species does not appear 
to have been recognized on this side of the Atlantic, but in Europe 
it is widely distributed. 
Apanteles ephesticv Baker was described in Entomological News. June, 
1895 (Vol. VI, pp. 201-202). from specimens reared at Fort Collins. 
Colo., "froin the larvae of Ephestia kuehniella working in honeycomb, 
the Hies emerging November 22." 
PARASITES OF THE INDIAN-MEAL MOTH. 
The two parasites of the Indian-meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) 
mentioned below should be added to those already alluded to as preying 
upon this and other allied species. 
Omorga frumentaria Bond, was first reared from this moth in July. 
1894, which was found breeding by Mr. Frank Benton in bran at 
Berwyn Heights, Md. Subsequently it was reared from the caterpil- 
lars of the same moth living on dried prunes in a local grocery, the 
imagos issuing from July 9 to September 20 and continuing to issue 
whenever the moths appeared. One jar of middlings that had con- 
tained large numbers of moths and their larvae in the fall of 1895 for 
some time produced nothing but parasites, and I had nearly arrived 
at the conclusion that the moth had been exterminated and the para- 
site had then died of starvation, but the latter only was true, as a few 
moths appeared toward the end of the following June. At the same 
time a number of these same parasites appeared in neighboring jars 
containing other moths, viz, Ephestia eahiritella. In one instance the 
parasite might have been brought in in English walnuts containing 
its host. In the other case the parasite must have thrust its eggs 
through the cloth covering of the jar, as it contained only fresh 
material put in in April and tightly covered. 
The species was described by llondani (Bull. Soc Ent. Ital.. Vol. 
IX. p. 169) in 1887 under the genus Campoplex from material reared 
from Tinea granella in Italy. 
What is probably the first mention of a parasite of this moth is by 
B. D. Walsh in the Practical Entomologist of July, L867 (Vol. 11, p. 110). 
He says that ''while in the larva state it is preyed upon to a very con- 
siderable extent by a small Ichneumon fly." This was probably either 
the above species or the lladrobraeon. 
Limneria ephestia' Ashm. lias been recorded in Vol. Ill of Insect Lite 
(p. 158) as also having bred from Plodia interpunctella "feeding on wax. 
Missouri, -May. 1S7; > >,"' and from a noctnid pnpa from Texas. It was first 
mentioned as /,. ephestia' Riley MS., but the species was not described 
until 1896 (Trans. Amer. Entoin. Boa, Vol. XXIII. p. L96 . 
