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31 ale. — Essentially as in the female. 

 Type locality. — Nova Scotia, Canada. 

 T7jpe.— Cat. No. 22554, U.S.N.M. 

 Host. — Tmetocera ocellana Schiffermueller. 



Described from one specimen of each sex bred by Mr. W. H. 

 Brittain. 



144. APANTELES OROBENAE Forbes. 



Apanteles orobenae Forbes, Rep. Noxious Insects 111., vol. 12, 1882, p. 104. 

 Apantcles congrcgatus, var. orobenae Forbes, Weed, Bull. 111. State Labor. 

 Nat. Hist., Vol. 3, 1S87, p. 5. 



Habitat. — Illinois ; Louisiana ; ( ? ) Connecticut. 



Host. — Evergestis rimosalis Guenee (Forbes). 



This is without question a distinct species, and should not be re- 

 garded as a variety of congregatus, as suggested by Weed. 



The National Collection contains two specimens received from S. 

 A. Forbes, and which are undoubtedly paratypes; also a series from 

 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reared from Evergestis rimosalis by T, 

 H. Jones under Chittenden No. 4199-1; and a series from Illinois, 

 reared from the same host under Bureau of Entomology No. 2243°, 



145. APANTELES HYDRIAE, new species. 



Female. — Lengih, 2.2 mm. Face weakly punctate, somewhat 

 shining; vertex indistinctly punctate and shining; antennae dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the body; mesoscutum evenly but very shal- 

 lowly punctate and shining, inconspicuously so posteriori}^ ; scu- 

 tellum with the disk very slightly convex, practically impunctate 

 and strongly shining, and the lateral face with the posterior pol- 

 ished area rather semicircular and not quite as large as the rough- 

 ened part in front; mesopleura exceedingly highly polished; propo- 

 deum indistinctly punctate and very shining at extreme base, finely 

 rugulose behind, with a rather distinct median longitudinal carina; 

 stigma broad; radius perpendicular to the anterior margin of the 

 wing and much longer than the transverse cubitus ; nerveilus curv- 

 ing strongly behind toward base of wing; posterior coxae with a 

 large oval, punctate, flattened area on the outer edge at base above; 

 spurs of posterior tibiae apparently equal in length, and hardly 

 half as long as the metatarsus; abdomen elongate-oval; the first 

 tergite broadening gradually toward apex, smooth and polished 

 at base, punctate on the posterior half; second tergite trapezoidal, 

 broader at apex than at base, the sides rather oblique on the basal 

 half and parallel on the apical half, the plate somewhat smooth and 

 shining medially, rugulose at the sides; third and following ter- 

 gites smooth and shining; hypopygium not projecting beyond apex 

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