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half way, color as abdomen, fleshy; below and inside with a prominent round 

 point near the apex. Claspers, horny, subhyaline, bases thick and with an 

 inside point which is modified on the outside. All with some black hairs. 

 Female hypopygium subhyaline with four valves, tergal pair in lateral view 

 flat, sword like; from base slightly up curved to the tips; base, thin, swelling from 

 the second half diminishing to the tips and a bump dorsally at the first basal 

 quarter. 



Described from six specimens. Ho/otype, male, and Allotype, 

 female, 22 Feb., 1921, Cranbrook, B. C., 3500 ft. 



Four female paratypes. One data as types sent to Dr. C. 

 P. Alexander. One data as types sent to U. S. Nat. Coll., 

 Wash., D. C. One, 13 Feb., 1920, Cranbrook, B. C., taken 

 a few hundred yards off the type spot, sent to the Canadian 

 Nat. Coll., Ottawa. One taken in March or April, 1921, from 

 the hills near Canal Flats, Kootenay Valley, taken by a trapper 

 and given to me (damaged). 



THE IDENTITY OF A HYMENOPTERUS PARASITE OF THE 

 ALFALFA LEAF WEEVIL. 



BY R. A. CUSHMAN, 



Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



At the time of the description of Aenophgimorpha phytonomi 

 the only specimen known to Viereck had been reared as a para- 

 site of Phytonomus postica at Hoytsville, Utah. Since that 

 time additional specimens have been reared from the same host 

 in Italy. This European record led me to try to identify it 

 among the European species with the result that it was found to 

 be identical with Hemiteles micator Gravenhorst. 



The synonymy is therefore as follows: 



Aenoplegimorpha micator (Gravenhorst). 



Ichneumon micator Gravenhorst, Vergl. Uebers. Zool. Syst., 1807, 260. 

 Hemiteles micator Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur., vol. 2, 1829, p. 832, 9 only. 

 Aenophgimorpha phytonomi Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, 

 p. 147. 



Actual date of publication February 14, 1922. 



