NO. 2349. REVISION OF NEARCTIC APANTELES—MUE8EBECK. 551 



Cocoons. — Buff in color; gregarious, without loose silk, and at- 

 tached vertically to the body of the host. 



There are in the United States National Museum, besides the types 

 of empretiae and its synonym, specimens from Falls Church, Vir- 

 ginia, reared by C. Heinrich from Parasa chlorls on chestnut, under 

 Hopk. U. S. No. 11197'^ ; also specimens from Miami, Florida, reared 

 by Max Kisliuk from an unidentified caterpillar under Hunter No. 

 9035. 



118. APANTELES DIACRISIAE Gahan. 



Apanteles diacrisiae Gahan, Proe. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 53, 1917, p- 198. 



Habitat. — Apparently widely distributed over the eastern half of 

 the United States. 



Hosts. — Diacrisia virginica F'dhi'icms (Gahan) ; Hemerocampaleu- 

 costigma Smith and Abbot ; Hyyhantria textor Harris ; Olene din- 

 to ni Grote. 



Cocoons. — Gregarious, entirely inclosed in a mass of tough white 

 silk. 



In addition to the type series the National Collection contains a 

 large amount of material of this species, reared from Diacrisia vir- 

 grnica, in widely different localities ; also tAvo specimens from Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia, said to have been reared from Hemero- 

 cam.pa leucostigma by W. H. White, under Chittenden No. 908 ; an- 

 other series bearing Bureau of Entomology No. 382L, said to have 

 been reared from Olene clintoni; and a series from Columbia, South 

 Carolina, reared from Hyphantria textor under Bureau of Ento- 

 mology No. 48-lL°. 



119. APANTELES DEPRESSUS (Viereck). 



Apanteles (Stenopleura) dcpressus Viekeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, 

 1912, p. 582. 



Habitat. — Indiana. 



Host. — Tortricid larva (Viereck). 



Eepresented in the National collection by the type series only. 



120. APANTELES PYRALIDIS, new species. 



Female.— liength, 2.2 mm. Face broader than long, punctate; an- 

 tennae shorter than the body, apical segments very short ; vertex and 

 temples indistinctly punctate and shining ; mesoscutum rather closely 

 punctate and opaque, except along the posterior margin; scutellum 

 with the disk practically impunctate, very shining, and the lateral 

 face mostly roughened, the posterior polished area on the lateral face 

 of scutellum being very small, semicircular in outline; mesopleura 

 polished except anteriorly; propodeum entirely rugose and opaque, 

 without a median carina; radius as long as, or a little longer than, the 

 transverse cubitus, the two veins uniting in a strong angle ; posterior 

 coxae smooth and shining; abdomen moderately broad and hardly 

 as long as the thorax ; first tergite about as broad at apex as at base, 



