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interesting records : Maxwell, New Mexico, reared from C horizagrotis 

 agrestis by D. J. Caffrey, under Webster No. 11131; Salt Lake, Utah, 

 reared by L. P. Rockwood from Autogra'pha, species, under Webster 

 No. 7489 ; Murray, Utah, reared from Scotogramma^ species, by L. P. 

 Rockwood, under Webster No. 10320 ; Maxwell, New Mexico, reared 

 from Eurymus eurytheme by D. J. Caffrey, under Webster No. 

 11202; Maxwell, New Mexico, reared from Girphis unipuncta by 

 C. K. Wildermuth, under Webster No. 11154; Roclvy Ford, Colorado, 

 reared from Laphygma exigua by PI. O. Marsh, under Chittenden 

 No. 1562; a large series from the army worm, Cirphis unipuncta, 

 reared by Dr. James Fletcher at Ottawa, Canada ; and a large series 

 reared from cocoons taken on Carex on Mount Washington, New 

 Hampshire. 



113. APANTELES EOBINIAE (Fitch). 



Microgaster robinine Fitch, Fifth Ann. Hep. on Noxious, Beneficial, and 



Other Insects of the State of New York, 1859, p. 836. 

 Apanteles (Protapanteles) roMniae Fitch, Viereck, Bull. 22, Conn. State 



Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, 1916, p. 196. 



Habitat. — New York. 



Host. — Recurvaria rohinieUa Fitch (Fitch). 



Cocoons. — "White, solitary, within the mine of the host." (Fitch.) 



Known only from the type material in the National Collection. 



114. APANTELES ORNIGIS Weed. 



Apanteles oniigis Weed, Bull. 111. State Labor. Nat. Hi.st., vol. 3, 1887, 



p. 6. 

 Apanteles tortricis Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 4, 1897, p. 163. 

 Apanteles {Apanteles) Iraunae Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 



1912, p. 614. 

 Apanteles {Apanteles) UtJiGColletidis Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



42, 1912, p. 615. 



Hahitat. — Illinois; New Hampshire; Minnesota; Massachusetts; 

 Pennsylvania; New York; Virginia; District of Columbia; Ken- 

 tucky; Missouri. 



Hosts. — Ornix geminatella Packard (Weed) ; Lithocolletis mariae- 

 ella Chambers; LithocoUetls, species (Viereck) ; Lithocolletis propin- 

 quinella Braun ; Tischeria^ species. 



Cocoons. — Smooth, white, with a darker transverse median band, 

 the cocoon being much thinner here than at the ends ; solitary. 



After a careful study of the type material under the names listed 

 above, the writer is of the opinion that the four names have been 

 applied to a single variable species. 



Besides the types of ornigis and of its three synonyms the National 

 Collection contains the following material : Several specimens from 

 North East, Pennsylvania, reared from Ornix geminatella by D. 

 Isely under Quaintance No. 10972 ; specimens from Washington, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, reared from LitJiocolletis propinquinella by C. R. 



