28 SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO TRUCK CEOPS. 
a rearing jar with sand they burrowed down to the depth of an inch 
or a little more and surrounded themselves with a slight web. 
It is noticeable that this species was found only upon Lima beans 
in its occurrence in California. 
An ichneumon-fly parasite (Chttn. Xo.l412°) issued October 19 
to October 30. 1908. 
As a very complete systematic bibliography is published by Doctor 
Dyar. a and. moreover, as the titles cited have little bearing on the 
matter in point, bibliographical references will be omitted in the 
present paper. Admitting that zinckeneTla and schisticolor are syno- 
nyms, the Dyar catalogue furnishes no less than fourteen synonyms, 
the species having been given that number of specific names by differ- 
ent writers, the list including six by Walker. 
Xo opportunity has presented itself for experiments in the reme- 
dial control of the insect, and unless it should be held in check by 
natural enemies it is probably destined to be a pest during some 
seasons, in localities where it has become well established, on Lima 
beans. 
a Bui. 52, United Stares National Museum, p. 428, 1902. 
