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low birds and English sparrows feeding upon the moths. Un-' 
doubtedly many more of our smaller birds feed upon the young 
caterpillars. 
Predaccous imsects.— The predaceous insect enemies herein 
recorded may be divided into two groups: The coleopterous 
(beetles) and the hemipterous (bugs). The caterpillars fall an 
easy prey to these enemies when crawling about upon or near the 
ground. The following are included in the first group: Calosoma 
scrutator Fab., and Calosoma calidum Fab., two of our largest 
species of predaceous ground-beetles, which have frequently been 
observed attacking caterpillars of various species. Dr. C. V. 
Riley®? and Mr. Wm. Saunders™ were probably the first to record 
them feeding upon the caterpillars of this species. 
According to Felt,” Burgess states that Calosoma wilcoxi LeC. 
fed readily in confinement upon the caterpillars. Included in the 
second group are the two predaceous bugs, Podisus placidus Uhler 
and Podtsus seriventris Uhler, which Kirkland** has recorded 
feeding upon the caterpillars. Saunders records” a species of 
Trombidium feeding upon the eggs. 
Parasitic nsects— The parasitic insect enemies may also be 
divided into two groups: The dipterous parasites and the hymenop- 
terous parasites. Of the former group Coquillett?® records the 
following as parasites of the caterpillars: Huphoracera claripennts 
Macq., bred by C. H. Fernald, Amherst, Mass., Frontunia frenchu 
Will., previously recorded by Harvey” and Tachina mella Walk. 
also previously recorded by Harvey. During the past season 
the writer has also bred the last named species together with 
Calliphora erythrocephala Meigen, which Coquillett states is 

23 Amer. Ent. and Bot., 2: 265. 
24 Insects Injurious to Fruits, p. 57. 
25 Bul. N. Y. State Museum, No. 23, p. 196. 
26 Mass. (Hatch) Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 46, p. 25. 
27 Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont., 1878, p. 28-30. 
28 Bul. No. 7, U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Tech. Series, pp. 11, 16, 21, 24. 
29 Psyche, May, 1891, p. 85. 
