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characters as given by Ashmead in his description of the latter 

 species, that is, the color of the leg* and the number of antennal 

 joints, being both very variable characters. 



The only female of this species in the type series lacks entirely 

 the yellow tergal color ascribed to the species by Ashmead in 

 his description. Unfortunately also the head is missing. It i- 

 possible that the female and the males are of different specie-, 

 the opposite sex of each of which has not been identified. The 

 exact status in this respect can not be satisfactorily determined 

 except by the rearing of more material under careful observation. 



One female from Kansas collected by C. L. Marlatt and labeled 

 by Ashmead Bracon notaticeps, which differs from the type in 

 having the abdomen brown on the sides, has been provisionally 

 referred to this species. 



The Bracon n. sp. of Ins. Life, II, p. 349, parasitic on Geleclifn 

 roseosuffusella Clem, belongs here and is a part of the material 

 examined. 



Habrobracon johannseni Vier. 



Bracon sp. Johannsen and Patch, Bui. 195, Maine Agr. Kxp. Sta., 101 _'. 

 Habrobracon johannseni Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. !_, 1913, 



p. 622. 

 Habrobracon letralophce Viereck, loc. cit., p. G23. 



Redescription of type female. Length 2 mm. Head black with a nar- 

 row interrupted line above and in front of the eyes dark testaceous ; mandi- 

 bles testaceous, black at tips; antennae black, slender, uniform in thickness, 

 22-jointed. 



Thorax black throughout, delicately shagreened; legs blackish, testa- 

 ceous at the articulations, hind tibia* and tarsi largely testaceous; win Li- 

 hyaline with the veins brownish and the pubescence blackish, paler toward 

 base of wing. 



Abdomen black above narrowly bordered with testaceous posteriorly, 

 about half as wide as long and about as wide as thorax, the sixth and seventh 

 tergites extended; first tergite with the furrows narrow and not civnulate. 

 its surface shagreened, sides beyond the spiracles straight and parallel: 

 second tergite granularly and slightly reticulately roughened; tergites :!. 

 4, and base of 5 shagreened, 5 apically and (i and 7 snmot h ; exserted purl ion 

 of ovipositor half as long as abdomen. 



This species was originally described from two specimci - 

 reared from an undetermined Tineid in pine cones at < n>no. Me. 

 In the same paper Yiereck described //. tflr<ilu/>fnr from two fe- 

 males and a male reared at Lafayette, hid., from 7Y/m/o/'/<" 

 baptixn ll<i. The description of the latter species consists of a 

 comparison with julnmn^m. The only characters used, length. 



