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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 
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NOTES ON FUMIGATION OF ORCHIDS 
By E. R. Sasscer and H. F. Dietz, Washington, D. C. 
(Withdrawn for publication elsewhere) 
President It. A. Cooley: Do you wish to discuss this paper or 
ask questions? 
Mr. T. J. Headlee: Mr. Chairman, I might inquire whether the 
cattelyse fly in the orchid leaf is killed by this process. 
Mr. E. R. Sasscer: We haven’t checked up on that. I have 
about reached the conclusion that we cannot kill any of these insects 
with plant fumigation. I would not recommend this fumigation to 
control any insect imbedded in the plant. 
President R. A. Cooley: I will call for Mr. McConnell’s 
paper, “ Mira saltator Lindm, as a Parasite of the Hessian Fly.” 
EUPELMINUS SALTATOR LINDM. AS A PARASITE OF 
THE HESSIAN FLY 
By W. R. McConnell, Cereal and Forage Insect Investigations, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture 
During the course of our studies of the parasites of the Hessian fly 
we have reared another parasite as yet unrecorded in American lit¬ 
erature. As is commonly the case with a parasite of an introduced 
insect, its determination has been a troublesome matter because of 
the inaccessibility of the type and the lack of properly identified rep¬ 
resentatives. 
Specimens were submitted to Mr. A. B. Gahan, of the National 
Museum, who regarded them as identical with a parasite described 
from Russia by Lindemann (1) under the name Euryscapus saltator , 
He placed it in the genus Mira , with which Euryscapus has commonly 
been regarded as synonymous. Since the title, of this paper was sub¬ 
mitted, Mr. Gahan has studied this species further and has written 
regarding it as follows: “I have been fortunate enough to find in the 
collection here part of a specimen labelled Euryscapus saltator in what 
I believe to be Lindemann’s own handwriting. It was in the box of 
Pleurotropis epigonus and other European parasites of the Hessian 
fly. We know that specimens of some of Lindemann’s species were 
sent to Riley and there seems to be no reason to doubt that this broken 
one is authentic, whether the label is Lindemann’s or not. Only the 
