536 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



86. APANTELES PHIGALIAE Muesebeck. 



Apanteles phigaliae Muesebeck, Can. Ent., vol. 51, 1919, p. 113. 



Habitat. — Massachusetts. 



Host. — Phigalia titea Cramer (Muesebeck). 



Cocoons. — Light brown ; the surface uneven, being furrowed longi- 

 tudinally ; gregarious, but with no loose silk. 



Ivjiown only from the type series, of which the type and four 

 paratypes are in the United States National Mueseum, and the re- 

 maining paratypes in the collection of the Gipsy Moth Laboratory 

 at Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts. 



87. APANTELES ALASKENSIS (Ashmead). 



Protapantcles alaskensis Ashmead, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sciences, vol. 4, 

 1902, p. 247. 



Habitat. — Alaska. 

 Host. — Unknown. 

 Known only from the types in the National collection. 



88. APANTELES POLITUS RUey. 



Apanteles politus Riley, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 4, pt. 2, 1881, 

 p. 307. 



Habitat. — Missouri; Illinois. 



Host. — Scolecocamfa libuma Geyer (Rilej'). 



Cocoons. — Dirty whitish; gregarious, in irregular masses. 



Represented in the National collection by a large type series, and 

 also by four specimens collected at Champaign, Illinois; collector 

 not indicated. 



89. APANTELES ADLITARIS (Walsh). 



Microgaster militaris Walsh, Insect, Injur. Vegt. Illinois, 1861, p. 27 ; Riley, 



2d Rep. Insects Missouri, 1870, p. 52. 

 Microgaster {Apanteles) militaris Walsh, Riley, 3d Rep. U. S. Ent. 



Commiss., 1883, pp. 126-127. 



Habitat. — Illinois; Missouri; New York; Massachusetts; Tennes- 

 see; Virginia; Oklahoma; Connecticut; New Jersey. Apparently 

 widely distributed over the entire United States. 



Hosts. — Girphis unipuncta Haworth; C. phrag7natid7rola Onenee: 

 Laphygma frugiperda Smith and Abbot; Heliothis obsolete Fabri- 

 cius; Chorizagrotis^ species. 



Cocoons. — Color buff to dirty whitish; gregarious, but not im- 

 bedded. 



In addition to the large type series, the National Collection con- 

 tains numerous series of this well-known species reared from the 

 Army worm, Cirphis unipuncta^ in widely distributed localities ; also 

 a series said to have been reared from Laphygma frugiperda at Nash- 



