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both Epliestia cahiritella and the Indian-meal moth, Plodia interpune- 
tella Hbn. In one lot of these beans the meal moth, recognized by its 
larva, was the only insect present. I bad previously reared the para- 
site from grain infested with this moth. 
In Volume VII of Insect Life we made mention of the rearing of 
this insect at Jamaica Plain, Mass., from the same host, but unfortu- 
nately the species was erroneously cited under the specific name 
honestor Say. 
In 1883 Mr. Ashmead described in tbe Proceedings of the United 
States National Museum (Vol. XII, p. G21) a male braconid, to which 
he gave the name Br aeon juglandis. It was reared by Mr. Albert 
Koebele from an unknown lepidopterous larva, referred to in Insect 
Life (Vol. II, p. 349) as doubtfully tiueid, infesting old English walnuts 
at Los Angeles, Gal. This host caterpillar was probably either Epliestia 
cahiritella or Plodia interpunctella. 
Mr. Ashmead informs me that this form, the dark one, is unques- 
tionably the same species as hebetor, although it does not agree in 
coloratioual detail with Say's description. He believes that the marked 
varietal forms of this very variable species should be indicated, and 
therefore suggests the retention of the name juglandis as a variety. 
Say described the female of hebetor with fourteen and the male with 
twenty-two-jointed antennae. Andre gives brericornis: 9 , 14-17 joints; 
S , 20-26 joints. In the series before me the joints vary from 14 to 15 
and2<> to 22. 
In comparatively small series of this species, even in what appears 
to be a single generation breeding out at the same time, a great indi- 
vidual variation in color is displayed. From the circumstances of 
rearing, aside from the lack of observable structural differences, I am 
convinced that this variation is not specific, the more so that this 
opinion is shared by Mr. Ashmead. The coloration varies from almost 
entirely honey-yellow to nearly black. A common type, as regards 
the arrangement of dark and light, is shown in the illustration (fig. 10). 
Br aeon brevicornis is recorded as having bred from the larvre of 
Epliestia lcueliniella,E. elutella and 21 yelois ceratonice, from Dioryctria 
abietella, and from the galls of Andricus terminalis. The hosts enu- 
merated are not native and the parasite must necessarily be cos- 
mopolitan, and it is not improbable that it may be the same as Braeon 
brevicornis Wesm., with the descriptions of which it substantially 
agrees. Say's description appeared in 1835, and therefore his name 
antedates Wesmael's, which followed three years later (Nouv. Mem. 
Acad. Brux., Vol. XI, 1838). 
Chremylus rubiginosus Nees is mentioned in Insect Life (Vol. II, p. 
260) as parasitic on Epliestia I'ueliniella. It has also been raised from 
the European gram moth, Tinea granella (Entom.,Vol. XIV, p. 141), 
and is said by Curtis and others to frequently occur with the common 
European bean weevil, Bruchus rufimanus. Bruclius seminarius L. 
and B. grandrius Schh. and the clothes moth, Tinea pellionella L., are 
