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females always took up a positioii with the head directly up the stem 
in ovipositing. The process of oviposition was very much the same 
as described for Ditropinotus aureoviridis . The shape of the egg of 
Homo poms clialcidiphagus is the same after oviposition as before. 
EUPELMUS ALLYNII 1 
This species (figs. 13, 14, 15) was first described in 1882. 2 In 1916 
Mr. C. M. Packard 3 gave an excellent account of the life history as a 
Fig. 13. Eupelmus allynii: Adult female and abdomen of male, greatly enlarged. (Webster.) 
parasite of the Hessian fly, and his paper is the only published record on 
the detailed life history of this species. It has been considered by some 
Fig. 14.—Eupelmus allynii: Lateral view of adult female, greatly enlarged. (Webster.) 
writers as the most important parasite of the jointworm. In the estima¬ 
tion of the present writers it ranks about fourth in importance in the list 
of parasites of Harmolita tritici. 
1 Family Encyrtidae, Subfamily Eupelminae. 
2 French, G.H. THE WHEAT-STRAW WORM, (isosoma allynii, french.) In iith Rpt. State Entomol¬ 
ogist Ill. [1881], p. 73-81. 1882. 
3 Packard, C. M. life histories and methods of rearing hessian-fly parasites. In Jour. Agr. 
Research, v. 6, no. 10, p. 367-382, pi. 51-52. 1916. 
