560 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 58. 



141. APANTELES DELICATUS Howard. 



Apanteles delicatus Howard, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric, Bur. Ent., Tecli. Ser., 

 5, 1897, n. 54. 



Hahitat. — District of Columbia ; Connecticut. 



Host. — Hemerocamya leucostujma Smith and Abbot. 



Cocoons. — White ; solitary. 



Known only from the types in the United States National Museum. 



142. APANTELES ALGONQUINORUM (Viereck). 



Apanteles (rrotapanteles) algonquinoruin. Viereck, Bull. 22, Conn. State 

 Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv., 1916, pp. 188, 196. 



Habitat. — Connecticut. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Known only from the types in the United States National Museum. 



143. APANTELES TMETOCERAE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3.3 mm. Face somewhat roughened medially, 

 with a distinct sharp median ridge originating just below the inser- 

 tion of the antennae and extending halfway to the clypeus; vertex 

 somewhat punctate, rather shining; mesoscutum closely sharply 

 punctate: scutellum with the disk convex, practically impunctate 

 and very shining: suture at the base of the disk broad, v<ith numerous 

 conspicuous pits ; mesopleura largely polished, Avith a shallow, non- 

 crenulate depression posteriorly; propodeum rugose, Avith a rather 

 distinct median longitudinal carina and with costulae ; forewing with 

 the stigma large, and with the radius strongly directed baclnvard, 

 very slightly longer than the transverse cubitus and uniting with the 

 latter in a sharp angle; nervellus strongly curved toward base of 

 wing; posterior coxae large, shining; inner spur of posterior tibiae 

 but very slightly longer than the outer, and about half as long as the 

 metatarsus ; abdomen longer than the thorax, stout ; the first tergite 

 broadening gradually from base to apex, the apical angles rounded, 

 the plate somewhat punctate or weakly roughened on the posterior 

 half; second tergite subtrapezoidal, two-thirds as long as the first 

 tergite is broad at apex, one and one-half times as broad at apex as 

 long down the middle, and slightly broader at apex than at base, 

 feebly rugulose and somewhat shining; remainder of the abdomen 

 smooth and shining; ovipositor subexserted. Black; antennae en- 

 tirely black; tegulae dark brown; wings hyaline, with the stigma 

 and veins dark brown, even the subdiscoideus strongly pigmented all 

 the way to the margin of the wing; all coxae black; remainder of 

 the legs testaceous, except the extreme apex of the posterior femora 

 above and most of the posterior tarsi, which are blackish; sides of 

 the venter of the abdomen vellowish on the basal half. 



