THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 133 



AX EGG-PARASITE OF THE CODLING MOTH BELONGING 



TO THE FAMILY MYMARID^. 



BY A, A. GIRAULT, URBANA, ILL. 



Tlie following Mymarid, described years ago, is a parasite of the eggs 

 of tb.e codling moth in Georgia. The record is without a sponsor, as 

 explained beyond, but otherwise I see no reason for not accepting it. 

 Originally the species was described as a parasite of LepidosapJies ulmi 

 Linnaeus. I add the following descriptive notes, so that it may be the 

 more easily recognized : 



Anaphes gracilis Howard. 



Female. — Length, 0.65 mm. Moderately small in size for the genus ; 

 visible to the naked eye. 



General colour black, suffused with some yellowish ; base of abdomen 

 contrasting, yellowish ; cox?e, trochanters, all tarsal joints, cephalic tibiae, 

 both ends of cephalic femora pallid lemon-yellow ; the antennae, venation, 

 cephalic femora, femora and iibi?e of other legs about neutral or dusky- 

 grayish : antennal pedicel somewhat lighter and more yellowish Eyes 

 dark. Wings subhyaline, slightly fumated proximad and along the distal 

 half of the blade. 



Body moderately slender, the abdomen as long as the head and 

 thorax combined, conic-ovate, pointed distad, the ovipositor distinctly 

 exserted, but not very much so, the exserted portion not as long, for 

 instance, as the proximal tarsal joint of the caudal legs. 



Fore wings usual in shape to the genus, moderate in width, widest 

 just before the apex, the latter dome-shaped, the marginal fringes long, 

 the longest disto caudad, slightly longer than the greatest width of the 

 blade and distinctly longer than the longest cilia of the posterior wing, but 

 not very much longer. Discal ciliation of the fore wing rather sparse, 

 absent in the proximal two-thirds of the wing and consisting of about 

 seven or eight short lines in the distal part of the blide. Posterior wings 

 with a single longitudinal line of discal cilia, the lines usually along each 

 edge absent apparently. 



Legs normal, the proximal tarsal joint longer than the other three^ 

 but not especially long ; tibial spurs single. 



Antennae p-jointed, not normal ; scape as long as the pedicel and 

 first three funicle joints combined or longer, curved, as long as the club. 

 Pedicel obconic, stout, as long, or nearly, as the next three joints taken 

 together. Funicle with the joints gradually widening distad, the proximal 



April, 1911 



