OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XI, 1909. 209 



Male. Sufficiently like the opposite sex to be readily associated, 

 areola hardly divided as in type female ; second dorsal abdominal plate 

 a little wider posteriorly than anteriorly, about three times as wide at 

 apex as long down the middle. 



Type No. 12748, U. S. National Museum. 



Type locality Algonquin, 111. 



Other localities Riley County, Kansas, September 10, 1885 

 (Marlatt ); Ames, Iowa, June 6, 1890; one male paratype 

 bears the number 14487, but no data. 



Apanteles (s. s.) hard, new species. 



1900. Urogaster hartii Ashm. MS. in Smith's Insects of New 

 Jersey (1899). 



Female. Compared with the description of A. forbcsi given above 

 this differs as follows: 2 mm. long: rugose plate of first dorsal 

 abdominal segment hardly longer than wide at apex, almost quadruu . 

 its sides not or hardly converging beyond the middle, fovea extending 

 from basal third to a little beyond middle third, apical fourth of 

 this segment depressed and longitudinally ridged, plate of second dorsal 

 abdominal segment rugulose throughout, third dorsal segment in- 

 distinctly sculptured, exserted portion of ovipositor about as long 

 as first and second joints of hind tarsi combined: coxae of hind legs 

 black or blackish, hind femora and tibia? brown, blackish, the latter 

 yellowish toward base, hind tarsi and tibia? similarly colored, win;j 

 membrane and stigma opalescent, boundary of latter, costa, and sides 

 of the- incomplete areolet more or less brown or brownish, other veins 

 opalescent or almost colorless. 



Male. Very like the female, plate of first dorsal abdominal segment 

 with its sides converging beyond the middle, anterior and middle leg- 

 mostly brownish, middle tarsi excepting apical joint yellowish, almost 

 whitish. Cocoons white and solitary. 



T\>/>eNo. 12754, U. S. National Museum. 



Type locality Washington, D. C., U. S. Dept Ajjric. No. 



374 x ", reared from Pyrausta nclumbialis Sm., July 7, 1882. 



Parapanteles Ashm. 



Metalhorax mostly smooth and with an areola; ovipositor not ex- 

 serted, or at least not prominently protrudim.-. 



Type Apanteh's alctiac Riley. 

 Cryptapanteles, n. n. for Apanteles Ashm. nee. Foerst. 



Metathorax without an areola: plate of si-onid dorsal abdominal 

 -foment rugose. \\ider at base than long down the middle, third dorsal 

 abdominal -^ vnu-nt smooth or at leaM not mostly ru^ox- or striated. 

 "\ipositor concealed or at most not conspicuously exserted. 



