PAKASITKS OF TlIK K(;(}S. 
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jjraniirJd, jitk] two clmlciduls. 'V\\v ('.\c('])t('(l sixM-ics. Ijowcnci-. lias 
l)0(Mi ivportcMl a> ()('cm-i-inu- in {Miornioiis inimlxMs, niul ^\a^^aIlt.s a 
iiiori* carofiil accoiml . 
.Vtlcnlion .-^(>(Mn^^ to \\i\\o Ixmmi lii'sl calhul t<> tlii> |)arasit(* 1)\ Mi-. 
AVIUiaiii T. Ilartmaii in a l(Mt(M' dated OctolxM" ;>, iSdS, to Docloi- 
Walsh. Ill this. Mr. Ilai'tniaii states that in ^et t ini;- sonic twius, from 
Fig. 
-Burrows of Spficciu.^ 
ypedosua: c, c, c, main entrance; c, c, c, r, chanil)ors for l;irv;i- aiul tlicir 
food. Greatly rodiicod (after Kiley). 
whicli lio lio])ed to ol)tain tlie lai'Viv ol" the Cicada, from an oal< whicli 
liad h(HMi Acry thickly ()vi])()sited in, he found, aftei' hnivin^- tin* tree, 
that his head and clothes were covered with what seemed to be small 
red Hies. The branches secured were kept in his office for several davs 
and the little red flies a])])(nir(Ml auain in 
eountless numbers. The examination of 
these Hies under a microseope showed that 
tliey were minute ITymenoptera instead 
of I)i])tera, as he first supposed. He ob- 
tained very few larva^ of the (^icada from 
these shoots, and consecpiently inferred 
that ]:)raetically all of the eggs had l)een 
parasitized by this insect. lie states also 
that a neighbor of his trapped thousands 
of them in the soft paint which had been 
newly applied to his window shutters, and 
that by the middle of August this niimite 
parasite was '^ everywhere in force." 
AVhat is prol)ably the same insect (fig. 
53) was reared in some egg-infested twigs 
collected by Mr. T. Pergande in A'irginia 
in July, 1885. Doctor Howard has exam- 
ined these specimens^ and pronounces them 
to })e a new species of a European genus not liitluMto recorded from 
this ccmtinent, and has descril)ed them under ih(> naiii(> Jjithromeris 
cicadije." The hfe cycle of tliis niinnte parasite is evi(hMitly so short 
that it is possible for it to pass through two oi- three generations 
Fig. ST).— Adult Cicada with Spheciti; 
egg attached at a. Natural sizo (af 
ter Kiley). 
"Canadian Entcmi.. vol. 30. April. 1S08. pp. 102. 103. 
