516 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



37. APANTELES FORBESI Viercck. 



Apanteles (Apantelcs) forbcsi Viekeck, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 11, 1910, 

 p. 208. 



Habitat. — Illinois ; Indiana ; Iowa ; Kansas ; Maryland ; Connecti- 

 cut ; New York ; Massachusetts ; Kentucky ; Oregon ; apparently very 

 widely distributed. 



Hosts.— Cir phis unipuncta Haworth ; Folia renig&ra Stephens ; P. 

 stricta Walker ; Felt'ta sp. ; " cutworms." 



Cocoons. — White ; solitary. 



The National Collection contains besides the type series the follow- 

 ing material: Two specimens from Hagerstown, Maryland, reared 

 from Feltia.^ species by W. E. Pennington; one specimen from the 

 same locality, reared by Mr. Pennington, from Folia renigera 

 Stephens; four specimens from Forest Grove, Oregon, reared by L. 

 P. Rockwood from Folia stricta Walker, under Webster No. 18460 ; 

 one specimen from Linton, Indiana, reared from cutworm by S. L. 

 Mason, Lafayette Cage No. El05e; one specimen from Buck Creek, 

 Indiana, J. J. Davis, collector, cage No. D200be ; one specimen from 

 Lafayette, Indiana, J. J. Davis, collector, cage No, D195bg. In addi- 

 tion, the writer has seen one specimen in the Cornell University col- 

 lection, taken at Ithaca, New York; also one specimen reared from 

 the army worm by H. Garman, at Lexington, Kentucky, in the col- 

 lection of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station ; and sev- 

 eral specimens in the collections of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions of Iowa and Kansas. 



38. APANTELES EPHESTIAE Baker. 



Apanteles ephcstiae Bakek, Ent. News, vol. 6, 1895, p. 201. 



Habitat. — Colora do. 



Host. — Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Baker). 



Represented in the National Collection by five cotype specimens. 

 The species structurally and biologically resembles carpatus Say, 

 from which it differs only in the wings being hyaline rather than 

 whitish, in the veins of the forewing being brown, and in the stigma 

 being longer and not so broad, also in the darker posterior femora. 



89. APANTELES EDWARDSII Kiley. 



Apanteles edicardsii Riley, Scudder, Butterflies U. S., 1889, p. 1901. 

 Apanteles ensiger Say= {Apanteles edwardsii Riley) Dalla Tokbe, Cata- 



loc:us Hymenopterorum, vol. 4, 1898, p. 169. 

 Apanteles {Apanteles) edwardsii Riley, Viebeck, Bull. 22, Conn. State Geol. 



and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1916, pp. 190, 199. 



Habitat. — Connecticut. 



Host. — Vanessa atalanta Linnaeus (Riley). 



Cocoons. — White; solitary. 



Known only from the type series in the National Collection. 



