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scape at base and tarsi yellowish. The femora have a large bluish-black blotch in the 
middle. 
Described from two specimens. 
The Reduvius Egg Eupelmid — Eupelmus reduvii Howard. — Seven 
specimens of what I have identified as this species were bred from Anasa 
eggs in July. 
For a description of the species see Canadian Entomologist, Yol. XII, 
page 207. 
THE SQUASH BORER. 
(Eudioptis nitidalis Cramer.) 
The worm so commonly found with us boring into squashes, at the 
Xorth goes under the name of u Pickle Worm.” There it is found eat- 
ing the leaves and boring into the fleshy portions of the Cucumber. 
Distribution. — It is found in the West Indies, throughout the United 
States, and in Canada. 
Food Plants. — As a borer it is found in Squash, Cucumbers, and Mel- 
ons, but it will also feed on the leaves of all of these vines. The moth 
is very common and it must have other food plants; Guenee mentions 
a species of Potato as its food plant. 
Its Injuries — The worms bore cylindrical holes into the Squash, and 
feed on the fleshy pulp, causing it to rot and decay. 
Parasites. — From one of the pupae I bred a Chalcid fly, Chalcis ovata f 
Siy, but no other parasites are known to infest it. 
Remedy. — Professor Riley, Second Missouri Entomological Report, p. 
70, suggests “overhauling the vines early in the summer, and destroying 
the first worms that appear, either by feeding the infested fruit to hogs or 
cattle, or by killing the worms on the spot.” 
THE SQUASH YINE BORER. 
( Melittia ceto Westw.). 
This well known insect, unlike Eudioptis nitidalis , does not bore into 
the Squash or fruit, but into the stem of the vine, often killing it. 
I have taken two or three borers at a time from a single stem, and in 
confinement they proved to be cannibalistic — feeding upon one an- 
other — as was exemplified with some 1 attempted to rear this summer. 
Xo borers were observed in the vine until July. 
Distribution. — Found generally throughout the United States. 
Food Plants. — Its attacks are almost strictly confined to the Squash, 
although it has been reported to bore at times into Pumpkin vines. 
Its Life History. — The egg. — The egg is oval and of a dull red. 
The Larva . — Full grown larvae measure from one inch to one inch and a fourth. 
Somewhat depressed, fleshy, soft, tapering at each extremity ; segments ten in num- 
ber, very distinct, the incisions being deep ; the eleventh or last segment minute, and 
hardly distinct from the tenth. Head retractile, small, brown, paler on the front, and 
with the usual V-like mark on it. First segment or collar with two oblique brown 
marks on the top, converging behind. A dark line, occasioned by the dorsal vessel 
