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identified by C. F. W. Muesebeck as Microbracon terebella (Wosm.). The 
material was roared "by E. J. Udine, of the Bureau of E n toraology and 
Plant Quarantine. These are the first specimens of this parasite to "be 
recorded from the United States. Specimens roarer from Psoudococcus 
constocki Kuw. "by R. N. Jefferson, at Blacksburg, Va. , have been determin- 
ed by A. 3. "ahan as the encyrtid Clausenia purpurea Ishii. This species 
was originally described from Japan and was not previously known to occur 
in the United States, although an appar- ntly unsuccessful attempt to intro- 
duce it into California was made in 1916. Mynaridae reared from eggs 
of the cotton flea hopper ( Psallus seriatus Reut.) at Port Lavaca, Tex., 
by H. J. Crawford, have "been identified by A. B. Gahan as a new species 
of Srythtnelus hear gracil je- (How.) and Anaphes anomocerus Girault. 
So far as known, no parasites have previously been recorded from this 
important cotton insect. The new species of Srythnolus appears to be 
the more abundant parasite of the two, r jh specimens of that species having 
been sent in for identification while only 3 specimens of A. a-.omoc~rus 
v.'cre submitted. A. anomocerus was originally described by Girault from 
specimens rearer at Sale Lake City from e ; ~gs of Halticus citri Ashm. on 
alfalfa, and was treated as a variety of A. iole Girault. Mr. Gahan 
doubts whether the slight differences which distinguish it from A. irle 
are even of varietal importance. .The typical A. ir.le is said to be 
parasitic in eggs of Hyp era nigrirostris E. , and is recorded from 
Illinois and Virginia. Nothing is known of the distribution of the 
supposed new species of Erythmelus . Two specimens of a species of Tach- 
inidae reared from Grapholitha molesta Busck by R. 3. iTeiswander, of 
the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, have been identified by D.G. 
Hall as Admontia degeeriodo s Coq. This appears to be the first record 
of this host-paro.site association. 
There was received for identification a series of specimens 
reared from eggs of the black widow spider at Wichita, Kans., by H.H. 
Walkden. Several additional specimens of the same species, also reared 
from the eggs of that spider, were submitted by '.V. J. Baerg, of the 
University of Arkansas. C. E. W. Muesebeck has identified the para- 
site as a new species of .B,aeus, a genus of Scelionidae. On several 
occasions recently a dipterous parasite of th9 black widow spider has 
been received for identification from southern California and has been 
determined by David G. Hall as Pseudogaurax si gnat a Loew, a species of 
Chlorrpidae. These parasites have been knewn to develop in the ogg sacs 
of spiders, but- seem not to have bean previously recorded from the 
black widow spider. (C. F. W. Muesebcck, 3ureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
Corrections — The powder-post beetle damaging lawn furniture, is 
not Lyctus np. , as published in the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, Volume l6, 
Number 9, page U26, November. 1, 1936. According to Doris H. Blake, in a 
paper on the flea beetles. ( Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 
Washington, .Vol. 38, No. ?_, F-b. 1936, pp^ 13-lM, the notes on the alder 
flea br-otle (Altica bimarginata (Say) ) in the Insect Peet iiurv y' Bullet in, 
September 1, 1936, (p. 3US) should be referred to A. nnbions alni (Harr.^. 
