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Among the parasite specimens taken in Idaho in connection with 
sugar-beet leafhopper studies, and recently submitted for identifi- 
_ cation by J. ©. Chamberlin, is a series of 7 specimens, including sev- 
eral females, identified by C. F. W. Muescbeck as Apanteles monticola 
Ashm., which was previously known only from the holotype male from 
Coloredo. 
Mr. Muesebeck has identified as Plastanoxus westwoodi (Kieff. ) 
several specimens of a small bethylid parasite of certain Coleoptera 
that infest stored grain. The specimens were received from E, J. 
Hambleton, who had obtained them in Minas Geraes, Brazil. The 
species has previously been recorded from Africa, Australia, and North 
America. 

Recently Robert Veitch, Chief Entomologist, Department of Agri- 
culture and Stock, Brisbane, Australia, sent to the Chief of the 
Bureau of Entomology a specimen of the very interesting Hemiodoecus 
veitchi Hecker. The specimen was presented to the U. S. National 
Maseum by the Bureau, and has been incorporated in the Museum collec-— 
tions by H. G. Barber, who has also reviewed the original description 
and other published information on this and related species. Several 
Specimens of this peculiar species were collected in association with 
Antarctic beech trees on the Lemington Plateau, in the National: Park, 
McPherson Range, Queensland, Australia, April 10, 1933. This species 
was described by H. Hacker (Queensland Agr. Jour. 37, pt. 5, May 1, 
1932) as belonging to the family Peloridiidae. Previously W. E. ou 
and J. G. Myers (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 3, 242..29)4, 1929), 
critical analysis, had placed the family Peloridiidae, which a stad 
been considered as heteropterous, in the suborder Homoptera under a 
proposed new series Coleorrhyncha. 

P. W. Oman has recently identified specimens of Peremiinus maidis 
(Ashn.) for L. Haseman of the University of Missouri, who reports 
that they had become quite a pest on corn grow for experimental pur- 
poses in a greenhouse at Columbia. The species is a common pest of 
corn and related plants and is known to occur throughout most of the 
tropical regions of the world, but its occurrence so far north is un- 
usual. It is also of interest to note that both nymphs and adults 
were present in the material sent by Dr. Hasenan, suggesting that the 
insect is breeding continuously through the winter. 
n interesting record of parasitization of leofhoppers has just 
been observed by P. W. Oman. In 406 specimens of Aceratagallia 
fuscoscripta Oman, collected in southern Idaho in 1932 and recently 
sent in for determination, there were 85 specimens which showed vis— 
ible parasitization by Stylopidae. While the percentage of parasiti-- 

