194 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



A. (P.) delicatus Howard. 



Length 2.8 mm. Host : white-marked tussock moth {Hemer- 

 ocampa leucostigma) . 

 °A. (P.) xylinus (Say). 

 Length 2,5 mm. Host: Smerinthus geminatus. 



°A. (P.) rufocoxalis Riley. 



Length 2.5 mm. Cocoons white, spun together in a ball cov- 

 ered with loose silk. 



*A. (P.) augustus Viereck (new species). 

 Female : length 2.5 mm. ; closely related to cramhi; fore 

 and mid coxse blackish at base, hind coxse black, blackish at 

 apex, stigma blackish, wings with a dark tinge. 



Type locality: New Britain, 31 August, 1908, No. 265 (W. 

 E. B.). 



°A. (P.) crambi Weed. 



Length 2 mm. ; black ; palpi white ; mandibles stramineous ; 

 venter, together with dorsum of third abdominal segment, 

 stramineous ; dorsum of segments posterior to the third^piceo- 

 stramineous ; legs red (except claws of fore and mid legs and 

 tips of femora and tarsi of hind legs, all of which are piceo- 

 stramineous, and hind coxse, which are black tipped with red) ; 

 wings hyaline; tegulse stramineous, veins whitish; antennae 

 blackish, scape pale beneath ; propodeum reticulated ; first and 

 second dorsal abdominal plates longitudinally rugulose; ovi- 

 positor concealed. 



Hosts: Crambus seellus, C. exsiccatus. Cocoons whitish, 

 adjoining, honeycomb-like. 



*A. (P.) hesperidivorus Viereck. 

 Female: length 1.75 mm,; differs from cramhi especially in 

 the uniformly dark brown to blackish antennae, in the almost 

 impunctate, polished scutel, and in the black or blackish dorsal 

 segments of the abdomen. 



Type locality: East River, reared from a skipper larva on 

 oak, 5 August, 1910, by Dr. Charles R. Ely. Cocoons white, cov- 

 ered with loose silk and loosely grouped together. 



A. (P.) congregatus (Say). 



Length 2.5 mm. or longer ; black ; palpi white ; wings hyaline ; 

 stigma fuscous ; first and second dorsal abdominal plates densely 



