47? CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



antiopa, {C olios) Eurymus philodice, (Terias) Eurema lisa, 

 Agranlis vanillcc, (Grapta) Polygonia satyrtis, (Pyrameis) Van- 

 essa atalanta, (P.) V. cardui, (Limenitis) Basilarchia archippus, 

 Campoplex (Ameloctonus) ftigitivus, Aleiodes, and Microbra- 

 con. It has been seen ovipositing on a larva of (Endamus) 

 Epargyrens tityrus by C. V. Riley. 



P. puparum var. vanessae Harris. Scudder, Butterflies of 

 New England, Vol. iii, pi. 89, Fig. 3. 



Differs from puparum in being at least one-fourth larger, 

 and darker in color. 



Listed as an American parasite of a cosmopolitan insect. Bred 

 from (Grapta) Polygonia interrogationis, (G.) P. comma, (Van- 

 essa) Euvanessa antiopa, (Pieris) Pontia monuste, Papilio 

 palamedes and P. thoas. 

 *P. verditer Norton. 



Female: mostly bluish green; antennae 13- jointed, rather cla- 

 vate, first to fourth joints inclusive yellow, rest dark, pilose ; head 

 green, prothorax green, rest of thorax bluish green; coxae all 

 green, sometimes the middle portion of femora green, rest of legs 

 yellow with exception of the apical tarsal joints, which are black- 

 ish ; base of abdomen bluish green, its apical half purplish bronze ; 

 abdomen polished. Male: mostly bright green; antennae pale 

 yellow except at apex ; legs pale green ; abdomen with a yellow 

 band around the middle. 



°P. nematicidus Packard. Rept. Entom. Com., U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, 1883, PI. xiii, Fig. 5. 



Bred from Lygceonematus erichsoni. The illustration cited 

 above is the only descriptive matter extant concerning this species. 



Listed as an American parasite of a cosmopolitan insect. 

 °P. cuproideus Howard. 



Female: length 3.5 mm. ; mostly brownish green; scape rufous, 

 funicle dusky, third antennal joint as long as fourth and fifth 

 combined, sixth and seventh longer than third, apical joint coni- 

 cal, head uniformly punctate; thorax punctate like the head, 

 metanotum with a median longitudinal carina and two curved 

 lateral carinse; legs, including coxae, light honey-yellow; tegulae 

 darker honey-yellow ; basal two-thirds of second dorsal abdominal 

 segment blue or purplish, second segment occupying a little more 



