198 PARASITES OF GIPSY AND BR OWN -TAIL MOTHS. 
In 1910 additional importations were made from Japan, and a large 
number of healthy adults was liberated sufficiently early in the season 
to allow for one generation upon the gipsy moth. As in 1909, cocoon 
masses were found in the vicinity of these colonies about three weeks 
after their establishment. 
An attempt will be made in 1911 to import enough cocoons from 
Russia to make possible a strong colony of the European race. It is 
possible that it would succeed here when the Japanese would fail, 
and on the chance the experiment is undertaken. 
SECONDARY PARASITES ATTACKING APANTELES FULVIPES. 
It is safe to say that a better opportunity for an intensive study of 
the parasites of any one host which was itself a parasite has never been 
afforded than has come about at the laboratory in the case of the 
parasites of Apanteles fulvipes. 
Hundreds of thousands of the cocoons of the primary parasite were 
collected in Japan after they had been exposed to attack by the sec- 
ondaries, and, so far as can be judged, the latter stood the ordeal of 
the journey to America better than did the primary. Even in those 
shipments which were just a few days too long en route and in which 
the Apanteles themselves had all issued and died before their receipt 
the secondaries had hardly begun to issue. These, as well as the 
numerous shipments which were received in better condition, in so far 
as Apanteles was concerned, have produced many thousands of sec- 
ondary parasites, which have all been carefully preserved, but not, as 
yet, carefully studied. It is not even known how many species are 
represented in the assortment, which includes a considerable number 
of undescribed forms, but apparently there are at least 30, and prob- 
ably more, from Japan alone. Some are very rare, and are repre- 
sented by but a few individuals among the thousands which have been 
reared. Others are common at times, and rare or absent at others. 
Some few are generally common, and practically always present. 
The considerable shipments of cocoons which were collected in 
Russia by Prof. Kincaid and forwarded to the laboratory in 1909 
were invariably so long en route as to permit the Apanteles to issue 
and die, but, as in the case of the Japanese shipments, the secondary 
parasites did not suffer. Not nearly so much material of this sort 
has been received from European sources, and probably on that 
account alone the variety of secondary parasites reared has not been 
so large. Nevertheless, more than 20 species have been recog- 
nized and probably at least 25 have been reared in varying abund- 
ance. 
A good many of these secondary parasites have a very close resem- 
blance to those which have been reared from the Japanese material. 
