>o.2349. REVISION OF NEARCTIC APANTELES—MUESEBECK. 557 



apex than at base ; the second broad, rectangular, with the posterior 

 margin slightly curved forward at the sides; first and second tergites 

 rugulose, though shining; the remainder of the abdomen perfectly 

 smooth and highly polished; ovipositor subexserted. Black; anten- 

 nae, tegulae, all coxae, and trochanters, basal half of fore femora, 

 middle and hind femora entirely, black ; tibiae largely testaceous, the 

 posterior pair blackish on the apical third; tarsi dusky; wings very 

 slightly inf umated, the stigma and veins brown. 



JIale. — Differs in no essential character from the female. 



Tyj)e locality. — Forest Grove, Oregon. 



Type.— Cat ^o. 22553, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Feltia aeneipennis Grote. 



Described from six female and two male specimens bred by L. P. 

 Eockwood, October 18. 1916, in the Bureau of Entomology, under 

 We]>ster No. 18448. 



132. APANTELES CARDUICOLA (Packard). 



Mkrogastcr (AjmntcJa ?) carduicola Packaed, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 21, 1881, p. 27. 

 Apantelcs cardu'wcAa Packard, Weed, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc, vol. 15, 1888, 

 p. 296.— Riley, in Scudder, Butterflies U. S., 1889, p. 1907 ; Scudder, But- 

 terflies U. S., 1889, p. 469. 

 Habitat. — United States; Nipigon Forest Reserve, Canada. 

 Hosts. — Vanessa cardui Linnaeus (Packard) ; V. virginiensis 

 Drury (Scudder). 



Known only from the type series in the United States National 

 Museum. 



133. APANTELES HESPERIDIVORUS (Viereck). 



Apanteles {Protapantclcs) hespcridivorus Viekeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 42, 1912, p. 626. 



Habitat. — Connecticut . 



Host. — Hesperid on oak (Viereck). 



Known only from the type series in the United States National 



Museum. 



134. APANTELES CYANIRIDIS KUey. 



Apanteles cyumridis Riley, in Scudder, Butterflies U. S., 18S9, p. 1903. 



Hahitat. — United States. 



Host. — Lycaenopsis yseudargiolus Boisduv:;! :nid LeConte. 

 Cocoon. — White, with a tinge of lemon-yellow; solitary. 

 A stout species, with an exceptionally broad abdomen. 

 Known only from the type series in the United States National 

 Mjiseum. 



