320 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



rjers Hopk. U. S. 3072o (type), 3072/, 30286, 1495A; also a para- 

 type from Ballston (Veitch), Virginia, collected by T. E. Snyder, 

 and recorded under Bureau of Entomology Number Hopk. U. S. 

 D6880 1 . The paratypes indicated with this species may have the 

 head black, piceous or rufous. The notes for this species, made 

 'by W. F. Fiske, indicate that it is an internal parasite, which in 

 the last stage becomes external, on Leptoslylus in chestnut (either 

 Leptostylus macula or Leptoslylus collaris) . The cocoons are made 

 in the larval galleries of the host. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18280, U. S. N. M. 



Capitonius nigrisoma, new species. 



Female. — Length 6 mm. Head as broad as the widest portion 

 of the thorax; the posterior orbits narrower than the shortest 

 diameter of the eye; head immediately below the antennae with 

 the punctures about a puncture width apart; remaining portion of 

 the front with the punctures more widely separated; the posterior 

 orbits and occiput with the punctures very widely separated; third 

 .antennal joint one-fifth longer than the fourth; prescutum shining 

 with a few large, well-defined, separate punctures; notauli poorly 

 foveolate; scutum with the punctures more widely separated than 

 those of the prescutum; the. suture between the scutum and 

 scutellum with many strong rugae; scutellum shining, impunctate; 

 propodeum strongly reticulate; dorsal lateral part with reticula- 

 tions tending to transverse areas bounded by carina?; tergites 

 •shining, without sculpture. Black; head below the antennae and 

 thorax with long white hair; wings hyaline, venation dark brown. 



Male. — Length 5 mm. Agrees well with the above descrip- 

 tion of the female, except in having the head rufo-piceous. 



Tryon, North Carolina. Described from two females and one 

 male, recorded under Bureau of Entomology Number Hopk. U. S. 

 36586 and c (type, allotype and paratype) ; paratypes under Hopk. 

 U. S. 1552/. Material collected and reared by W. F. Fiske. The 

 notes under 36586 state that specimens were reared from dead pine 

 infested with Cerambycidae and Buprestidae. The notes under No. 

 1552/ state that this species is a parasite on Goes oculata in hickory. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18281, U. S. N. M. 



