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Type locality. — Archer, Florida. 

 Type.—Q^i. No. 22533, U.S.N.M. 

 i/(?5^.— "Noctuid." 



Described from many specimens of both sexes bred from cocoons. 

 Ashmead's manuscript name has been used. 



91. APANTELES SORDIDUS Ashinead. 



Apanteles sordidns Ashmeah, Trans. Eiit. Soc. London, 1900. pt. 2, p. 279. 



Habitat.— St. Vincent. 



Host. — Unknown. 



The type of this species is in the British Museum, and has not 

 been seen by the writer. The species has been phiced in the key on 

 the basis of the original description. 



92. APANTELES NIGRICORNIS. new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.4 mm. Face somewhat punctate, shining, with 

 a distinct median longitudinal ridge just below the insertion of the 

 antennae ; antennae much longer than the body ; vertex, temples, and 

 cheeks weakly punctate and shining; mesoscutum shining, shallowly 

 punctate, the punctures becoming less distinct posteriorly; disk of 

 scutellum somewhat convex, indistinctly punctate, rather shining; 

 mesopleura mostl}^ smooth and polished, with a conspicuous, non- 

 crenulate, longitudinal depression posteriorly; propodeum without 

 an areola, punctate, with slight rugulosity posteriorly in the middle. 

 dull, except the apical lateral areas, which are shining; radius at 

 least no longer than transverse cubitus; nervellus slightly curved 

 behind toward base of wing; posterior coxae mostly smooth and pol- 

 ished, without the flattened area at base common to many species; 

 inner spur of posterior tibiae longer than the outer and half the 

 length of the metatarsus; abdomen rather slender; first tergite very 

 narrow, much narrower at apex than at base, more than twice as 

 long as broad at base, and mostly smooth and polished, there being 

 only a few weak punctures laterally near the apex; second tergite 

 small, triangular, defined laterally by sharp oblique grooves, very 

 narrow at extreme base, and hardly as broad at apex as long down 

 the middle, smooth and polished like the remainder of the abdomen ; 

 lateral membranous margins along the apical half of the first tergite 

 and the entire length of the second very broad ; ovipositor hardly 

 exserted. Black; antennae entirely black; tegulae blackish; wings 

 hyaline, the stigma and veins brown; legs testaceous, except all 

 coxae, which are black, and the extreme apex of the posterior femora 

 and of posterior tibiae, and practically all of the posterior tarsi, 

 which are slightly duskj^ ; lateral membranous margins along the 

 two basal abdominal tergites rather fusco-testaceous ; third tergite 

 with a more or less distinct testaceous spot on either side. 



