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55. APANTELES PARALELLIS (Ashmead). 



Protapanteles pamlc.Uis Ashmead, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1900, pt. 2, 

 p. 281. 



Habitat. — St. Vincent. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Type in the British Museum and not examined; apparently the 

 species is distinct and can be separated by tlie characters given in the 

 table. 



56. APANTELES NIGROVARIATUS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Face closely, shallowly punctate and 

 shining, hardly as broad at base of clypeus as long; vertex, temples, 

 and cheeks closely punctate and opaque; antennae at least as long 

 as the entire insect; mesoscutum uniformly closely shallowly punc- 

 tate; disk of scutellum rather flat, and smooth, with only a few 

 weak punctures; propodeum smooth and polished, but with a 

 prominent median longitudinal carina extending from base to apex ; 

 mesopleura smooth and polished except for some scattered punc- 

 tures anteriorly; forewing with the metacarpus much longer than 

 the stigma, and the radius somewhat longer than the transverse 

 cubitus; inner spur of posterior tibiae much longer than the outer, 

 and as long as half the metatarsus; abdomen with the two basal 

 tergites ruguloso-pvmctate, the third and following tergites smooth ; 

 first tergite about as broad at apex as at base, broadest medially, 

 the sides being slightly curved outwardly, and at least one and one- 

 half times as long as broad at apex; second tergite short, trans- 

 verse, much broader than the first tergite, and at least four times 

 as broad as long, the apical margin straight; ovipositor sheaths 

 almost or quite two-thirds the length of the abdomen. Mostly red 

 in color; head largely black, the antennae and face rather reddish- 

 black; mesosternum dark reddish-brown; metanotum and propo- 

 deum black; legs dark reddish -testaceous ; ovipositor sheaths black. 



Type locality. — Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania. 



Type.— C^t. No. 22522, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female specimen collected by E. M. Fouts, 

 July 28, 1918. 



57. APANTELES CONSIMILIS (Viereck). 



PseudapantcJcs couiiwiiH.s Ashmead MS., in Smith's Insects of New Jer- 

 sey, 1899, p. 593. 



Apantelcs (P-seudapantclcs) con&imilia Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 40, 1911, p. 177. 



Habitat. — New York. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Known to the writer only from the unique type (female) in the 

 United States National Museum, and two male specimens in the 

 collection of Cornell University ; these last were collected at McLean, 

 New York. 



