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.Mi'soscutum entirely black or with the color pattern reduced to lines 

 indicating positions of notauli; face in female with the yellow re- 

 duced to a small spot beneath each antennal fossa, separated from 

 the orbital ring by a brownish stain; antennae black or occasionally 

 somewhat testaceous, with 24 or more joints in female and 25 or more 

 in male; abdomen in female with same color pattern as in xantfin/n,- 

 tus but darker throughout, in male with the second tergite pale and 



the remaining tergites dark hopkinsi Vier. (= mali Vier.) 



5. Abdomen in female much wider than half its length, wider than the 

 thorax, sixth and seventh tergites barely visible from above; female 

 black, male with abdomen, especially second and third tergites. 

 broadly margined with yellow, dark medially 



gelechice Ashm. ( = notaticeps Ashm.) 



Abdomen in female not much wider than half its length, not wider than 

 the thorax; tergites 6 and 7 distinctly visible from above; sexes simi- 

 larly colored johannseni Vier. (= tetralophtr Yicr. ' 



Habrobracon brevicornis (Wesmael). 



Bracon brevicornis Wesmael, Nouv. Mem. AS.SC. Bruxelles, XI, 1838, 

 p. 23, fig. 2 (wing). 

 Brischke, Schr. Naturf. Ges. Danzig, (2) IV, 1882, p. 135. Host.- 



Dioryctria abietella. 



Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1884, Proc., p. xxxi. Host. Ephes- 

 tia elutella. _ 



Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 24, PI. I, figs, la (wing) 

 and Ib (head and thorax). Redescription. Hosts. Myelois cera- 

 toniae. Galls of Andricus terminalis. 

 Geikie, Trans. County of Middlesex Nat. Hist, and Sci. Soc., Xov. 



8, 1887. Host. Ephestia kuehniella. 

 Ichneumonid Klein, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, Proc. p. lii-Iiv. 



Host. Ephestia kuehniella. 



Bracon brevicornis Billups, Trans. Ent., Soc. Lond., 1888, Proc. p. 

 xxviii. Host. Ephestia kuehniella. 



Marshall, Andre's Spec. Hym. Eur., IV, 1888, p. 139. Redescription. 

 Bracon juglandis Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, p. 62. Host. 



Tineid? infesting old walnuts. 

 Bracon brevicornis Danysz, Bull. Seances Soc. Ent. France, 1893,' p. 



clxxviii. 



Habrobracon hebetor Johnson, Ent. News, VI, 1895, p. 324. Host. 

 Ephestia kuehniella. Also mentions Klein's article using name 

 Bracon brevicornis. 



Bracon (Habrobracon) honeslor Riley and Howard, Ins. Life, VII, 1895, 

 p. 428. Misprint in specific name corrected in general index. Host. 

 Plodia inter punctella. 



Bracon brevicornis Schmiedeknecht, Illust. Wochenschr. f. Ent., I, 18C6, 

 p. 541. 



