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HYMENOPTERA. 
(Maero sip hum granarium, Kby), Trioxys sp. has been reared from the 
cotton aphis ( Aphis gossypii , Gllov.). Microdus fumipennis, Cam. 
fig. 95) and M. tuberculatus, Cam., are recorded as parasites of the 
castor caterpillar (Trabala vishnu). (Ind. Mus. Notes, Vol. V, p. 107.) 
Apanteles glomeratus, L., is from a caterpillar attacking white gourd. 
(? Sphenarches caffer, Zell.) A. chilonis is parasitic upon the larva of 
Chilo auricilia, Ddgn., which attacks cane. A. (Urogaster) indicus is 
parasitic upon the cotton bud caterpillar ( Phycita infusella, Meyr.) and 
A. depressarice, on Gelechia gossypiella , the pink bollworm. Apanteles 
commonly pupate in very noticeable white cocoons, openly on the plant- 
near their victim or on it. (Plate XXXVI.) Rhogas Lefroyi is a 
parasite of the spotted bollworms, Earias insulana, Boisd., and Earias 
fabia , Stoll, a very important check upon this common pest. Micro- 
braeon leucanice is parasitic upon Nonagria uniformis , Ddgn., the 
Wheat Stem Borer. 
Stephaniim:. 
Antennce many-jointed. 
A small family of less than one hundred species, of which one is 
known from India. Wroughtonia eornuta, Cam., was found in Bombay 
by B. C. Wroughton. 
Evaniid^e. 
The abdomen is petiolate, the petiole inserted on the dorsal portion 
of the median segment. Antennce filiform, of 
thirteen joints, straight. 
A small family of almost certain distinction from the position of the 
abdomen, only a very few insects outside the family sharing this charac¬ 
ter. Less than three hundred 
species are known in all, of 
which six occur in India. 
Evania is a genus of me¬ 
dium-sized insects, sombre in 
colour, with a very short ab¬ 
domen, which is very slender 
at the base (peduncle) and 
broadly truncated at the apex. 
The sting is short, the wing comparatively small, the thorax robust. 
