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111 which its host was breeding, the eggs of the parasite must !. 
been thrust through the cloth covering of the jar, which contained 
only fresh material, and 
there had been no ex- 
posure of its contents 
and no other manner 
for the parasites to have 
obtained access to this 
jar. Particulars in re- 
gard to this are fur- 
nished in an early pub- 
lication of this bureau/' 
Pediculoidt s ventrico- 
sus Newp. — The third 
count of eg^s laid bv 
this moth, related on a 
preceding page, was pro- 
ductive of an unexpected 
result in establishing the mite Pediculoides ventricosus as an egg 
parasite. In a glass tube in which a copulating pair of the moths 
Fig. 3. — Hadrobracon hebetot % a parasite of the fig moth : 
Adult female : antenna of mal<> at left. Greatly en- 
larged. (Author's illustration.) 
Fig. 4. — Omorga frumentariOj a parasite of the tii: moth. 
larged. (Original.) 
total view. GreaUj en- 
Was confined, about a -core of mites of this species was found, some 
attacking and -licking out the contents of the eggs, while numer- 
" Bui. 8, n. s.. Bureau of Entomology, t\ s. Dept Agriculture, p. 41. 
