cones Nes 
Reporting on parasites of the oriental fruit moth, W. P. Yetter, 
Vincennes, Ind., says: "All parasites emerging from infested peach twigs 
brought into the laboratory were saved for identification purposes. A 
total of 561 parasites were saved. All of these were sent tO} iia 
Allen of the Bureau of Entomology at Moorestown ,N. J., for identifica— 
tion. Dr. Allen reports that 373, or 66.4 per cent, were Macrocentrus 
ancylivora Rech. and that 167, or 29.7 per cent, were Macrocentrus delica— 
tus Cress. Twenty-one parasites, or 5.7 per cent, were retained by Dr. 
Allen for further study. Of these 21, 7 appeared to be species of Mac— 
rocentrus, 10 of Cremastus, and 4 probably were M. ancylivora. Dr. Allen 
stated that the species of Macrocentrus may include two or three separate 
species, at least one of which is new to science, and the description of 
which will appear in Muesebeck's revision soon to be printed." 
JAPANESE BEETLE AND ASIATIC BEETLE RESEARCH 
R. W. Burrell, reporting progress in his search for parasites of 
scarabaeid beetles at Homebush, Australia, says: "The entire month of 
December was spent at Woy Woy with an assistant, collecting and breed— 
ing for shipment the two species of Palpostoma which occur locally. 
Two methods of obtaining the puparia were tried. The first was collect— 
ing the beetles Anorlognathus olivieri Dalm. in the field and keeping 
them in cages to obtain puparia from the beetles parasitized naturally 
in the field. The second method tried was exposing the beetles in 
cages to flies obtained from the field at night with a strong lantern 
and a net. This second method was apparently successful when tried on 
a very limited scale last season, but was not successful when tried on 
a large scale this year. Consequently reliance had to be placed solely 
on field parasitsm. Beetles were obtained by climbing large eucalyp— 
tus trees and shaking the branches. During the month some 6,000 bee— 
tles and 3,500 puparia of Palpostoma were obtained." 
Mr. Burrell says that "The results cbtained frem attempts to rear 
larvae of Ithone fusca Newm. have been very disappointing so far," and 
that "the results obtained in the laboratory from the species of Thyn- 
noides mentioned in the November report are complete, though hardly satis— 
factory. In all, seven eggs were deposited. It seems significant that 
no female laid more than one egg. * * * All eggs were deposited ven— 
trally on the third and fifth abdominal segments, and on or near the median 
line, long axis parallel to the long axis of the host, anterior end di-= 
rected cephalad. As noted before, the host, once stung, never recovers 
the power of locomotion. The seven eggs were deposited on six different 
species of grubs. One was a large rutelid grub, Anoplognathvs sp. The 
other six were melolonthine. Two were on Sericesthis pruinosa Dalm. 
Another was on Phyllotocus macleayi Fischer. One was on Apkrodivs sp. 
The other two were on grubs the adults of which were not reared out. 
All of the eggs hatched and got to be half grown or more before the para— 
site larva died. Only one came through to a cocoon." 
