The following brief contribution summarises a part of the contents of an extensive Russian report on parasites of the egg-pods of some Turkestan Acridodea, studied by the writer while on the staff of the Middle-Asian Institute of Plant Protection (Tashkent, U.S.S.R.), in the years 1927–30.
The writer is specially indebted to Mr. V. I. Plotnikov, Director of the Institute, under whose supervision the work was done, and who kindly identified the Acridian hosts ; and for the identification of the parasites reared, to Messrs. A. A. Ogloblin, Santa-Anna (Scelionidae), S. J. Paramonov, Kiev (Bombyliidae), B. B. Rohdendorf, Leningrad (Tachinidae) and B. S. Kuzin, Moscow (Meloidae). The author's thanks are due also to Mr. B. P. Uvarov, for his kind assistance in the publication of this note.