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Material recorded under Bureau of Entomology Xo. Hopk. 

 U. S. 1306Sa 4 *. 



Type. Cat. No. 21993 U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Doryctes maculipennis, new species. 



The spotted wings will readily distinguish this species from any 

 of its allies. Ashmead had given this species a manuscript name 

 after one of its hosts, but since it has more than one host it seems 

 to be desirable to chose a different name and I know of no Braconid 

 which can more appropriately be called maculipennis. 



Female. Length 3.5; ovipositor beyond abdomen 1.25 mm. Head slightly 

 narrowing posteriorly, smooth and shining, practically without punctures; 

 dorsal aspect of pronotum granular; scutum granular with faint aciculations 

 laterally, and medianly irregularly roughened; suture in front of the scutellum 

 without regular rugae; scuttellum more shining than the scutum, with a 

 few raised lines; propodeum shining dorsally and with fine, scattered punc- 

 tures; median and transverse carinae rather well defined; mesepisternum 

 mostly smooth and shining; first recurrent one-fifth its length basad of first 

 intercubitus; second intercubitus obsolesent; second and third abcissae of 

 radius subequal in length; nervulus postfurcal by nearly its length; first 

 two and base of third tergites granular and in addition with irregular wrinkles 

 which are stronger basally; apical part of third and all the remaining tergites 

 smooth and shining; ovipositor about half as long as the abdomen. Black; 

 legs and an obscure U-shaped band on second tergite piceous; wings hyaline, 

 the anterior wing with many fuscous spots arranged thus; along basal and 

 extending into submedian cell apically, along first abcissa of cubitus, on 

 both sides of first abcissa of radius and in first cubital behind first intercubitus, 

 longitudinal line in second cubital, subcircular spot a basal middle of third 

 cubital, subquadrate spot at anterior middle of radial, spot on both sides 

 at apex of radius, spot in apical middle of third cubital, two spots in branchical 

 cell, one near base and other near apex, and both sides of recurrent; venation 

 dark brown. Body sparsely covered with rather long white hair. 



Male. Length 3.5 mm. Other than the usual sexual differences agrees 

 with the female. 



Paratypes show that the strength of the irregular lines on the 

 tergites varies with the size of the specimen, and that the exact 

 size of the fuscous wing spots may vary. In one specimen the 

 apical spots are so enlarged as to be almost confluent. 



Type locality. Shingle- Springs, California. Described from 

 two females (one type) and two males (one allotype) reared from 

 cocoons taken in the larval mines of a species of Antlm.\'ia work- 

 ing in redbud (Celtic ivnifonnis). Material collected and reared 

 by H. E. Burke under Bureau of Entomology No. Hopk. I'. S. 

 12719 b 1 (type and two males) and 12719 />-. ' 



