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at apex than at base, and at least twice as long as broad at base, 

 punctate and shining; second tergite subtriangular, defined later- 

 ally by sharp oblique grooves, about as broad at base as long, and 

 at least one and one-half times as broad at apex as long down the 

 middle, the apical margin arcuate, the tergite mostly smooth and 

 shining; third and following dorsal segments smooth and shining; 

 hypopygium rather stout, not extending beyond apex of the last 

 dorsal abdominal segment; ovipositor very strongly curved, sickle- 

 like, the sheaths broad and about two-thirds the length of the abdo- 

 men. Black; antennae wholly black; tegulae testaceous; wings very 

 faintly clouded, the stigma and veins brown ; legs reddish-testaceous, 

 except the posterior coxae, which are black or blackish, and the 

 posterior tarsi, which are slightly dusky; ovipositor sheaths black; 

 sides of abdomen beneath largely yellowish ; the broad lateral mem- 

 branous margins on the two basal abdominal tergites pale. 



Cocoons. — White; with no loose silk; apparently solitary. 



Type locality. — Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



Type.— Cat ^o. 22528, U.S.N.M. 



Described from five female specimens collected by T. D. A. Cock- 

 erell, August 14, 1895. Ashmead's manuscript name has been 

 adopted. 



72. APANTELES SARROTHRIPAE Weed. 



Apanteles sarrothripae Wked, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, 1897, p. 3. 



flahitat. — Illinois ; Massachusetts ; Michigan. 



Hosts. — Sarrothripa revayana Scopoli; Ichtkyura inclusa, Hiib- 

 ner; Peronea permutana Duponchel. 



Cocoons. — Whitish ; gregarious but not embedded in silk. 



In addition to two cotypes of this species the National Collection 

 contains a large series of specimens bearing Bureau of Entomologj'' 

 No. 3981°, recorded as parasitic on Sarrothripa revayana; four speci- 

 mens without localit}^ label, but which are said to have been reared 

 from Peronea permutana; and one specimen from Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Michigan, bearing Accession No. 743'' and said to have been 

 reared from a locust leaf-miner. The writer has also seen a large 

 series in the collection of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose High- 

 lands, Massachusetts. These specimens were bred from Ichthyura 

 inclusa at Lynnfield, Massachusetts. 



73. APANTELES ALTICOLA (Ashmead). 



Protapantelcs alticola Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sciences, vol. 4. 1902, 

 p. 248. 



Habitat. — Alaska ; Utah. 



Host. — Chorizagrotis, species. 



The National Collection contains, besides the type scries, a single 

 specimen of this species from Nephi, Utah, reared by C. N. Ainslie 

 from Chmisagrotis, species, under Webster No. 6662. 



