544 I'ROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 58. 



1«4. APANTELES RUFOCOXALIS Riley, 



Apanteles congregatus, var. rufocoxalis Riley, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 



vol. 4, pt. 2, 1881, p. 310. 

 Apanteles rufocoxalis Riley, Quaintance, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Circ. 



98. 1908, p. 5. 

 Apanteles (Protapanteles) rufocoxalis Riley, Vieeeck, Bull. 22, Conn. State 

 Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1916, pp. 187 and 194. 

 Habitat. — Missouri; Tennessee; Texas; Virginia; New York; 

 Nova Scotia. 



Hosts. — CirpJiis uiiipuiicta Haworth (Riley) ; Nephelodes em- 

 medonia form violans Guenee; (?) Malacosoma a/ne7icana Fitch 

 (Quaintance). 



Cocoons. — Gregarious, completely embedded in a fluffy ball of pale 

 buff silk. 



This species is widely different from congregatus, and certainly 

 can not be considered a variety of that species. 



In addition to the type series the National Collection contains 

 the following material: Five specimens from Nashville, Tennessee, 

 reared by G. G. Ainslie, under Nashville No. 15205; 6 specimens 

 from Truro, Nova Scotia, collected August 30, 1914, without further 

 data; 4 specimens from Brownsville, Texas, reared by E. X. 

 Vickery, under Webster Nos. 6451 and 6453; 21 specimens from 

 central Missouri, without further data; 2 specimens from Falls 

 Church, Virginia, collected by Nathan Banks; 1 specimen from 

 Batavia, New York, reared by H. H. Knight from the army worm. 



105. APANTELES SCITULUS Riley. 



Apanteles congrcgatu-s, var. scitulus Riley, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 

 vol. 4, pt. 2, 1S81, p. 310. 



Apanteles emarginntus Riley, in Scudder Butterflies of U. S., 1889, p. 1906. 



Apanteles (Protapanteles) scitulus Riley, Viekeck, Bull. 22, Conn. State 

 Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1916, p. 193. 



Apanteles parorgyiae Ash mead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 4, 1897, p. 161. 



Apanteles (Cryptapanteles) rileyanus Viebeck=(A. emarginatus Riley pre- 

 occupied), Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 11, 1910, p. 210. 



Habitat. — Missouri; New Hampshire; Nebraska: Maryland; Ten- 

 nessee; New Jersey; Kansas; Florida. Evidently this species is 

 generally distributed at least over the eastern half of the United 

 States. 



Hosts. — Diacrisia virginica Fabricius (Riley, Ashmead) ; Olene 

 (?) clintoni Grote and Robinson (Ashmead); Acronycta oblinita 

 Smith and Abbot; Acronycta hrumosa Guenee.^ 



Cocoons. — Gregarious, completely embedded in a mass of whitish 

 silk. 



> Ins. Life, voL 3, p. 1.5. 



