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154. APANTELES GRENADENSIS Ashmead. 



Apanteles grenadensis Ashmead, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1900, pt. 2, 



pp. 277, 278 (not Urogaster grenadensis Ashmead, same reference, p. '285). 



Apanteles (Protapantcles) harnedi Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 43, 



1912, p. 580. 

 Apanteles harnedi Viereck, Vickery, Journ. Econ. Entom., vol. 8, 1915, 

 p. 391. 



Habitat. — AVest Indies; Mississippi; Texas; Tennessee; Missouri; 

 Morida; widely distributed through the Southern States. 



Hosts. — Lajyhygma frugiperda Smith and Abbot; Plathypena 

 scahra Fabricius; Cirphis unipuncta Haworth; Heliothis ohsoleta 

 Fabricius; Autographa, species; Lophygina exigua Hiibner; Pro- 

 denia eridania Cramer; Cirphis latiuscida Herrich-Schaeffer (Vick- 

 ery) ; C. multilinea Walker (Vickery). 



Cocoons. — Yellowish- white ; solitary. 



Besides the cotypes of gre^iadensis and the types of its synonym 

 the National Collection possesses numerous series of this species. A 

 large part of this material is recorded as reared from Laphygmn 

 frugiperda in various localities throughout the Southern States. 

 The following rearings from other hosts are indicated, however, 

 from Plathypena scahra by C. L. Scott, at Brownsville, Texas, under 

 Webster No. 6412; from the same host at Nashville, Tennessee, by 

 C. C. Hill, under Webster No. 11307, and at Charleston, Missouri, by 

 E. H. Gibson ; from Cirphis unipuncta by C. L. Scott, at Brownsville, 

 Texas, under Webster No. 6453; from Heliothis ohsoleta by E. A. 

 Vickery, at Brownsville, Texas, under Webster No. 6437 ; from Auto- 

 grajjha, species, by C. L. Scott, at Brownsville, Texas, under Webster 

 No. 6411; from Laphygma exigua b}^ R. A. Vickery, at Brownsville, 

 Texas, under Webster No. 6476; from Prodenia., species, by R. A. 

 Vickery, at Brownsville, Texas, under Webster No. 6481 ; and from 

 Prodenia eridania by Max Kisliuk, at Allapata, Florida, under 

 Hunter No. 9004. 



155. APANTELES FISKEI (Viereck). 



Apanteles (Protapanteles) fiskei Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 38, 

 1910, p. 379. 



Habitat. — Massachusetts; Wisconsin; Montana. 



Host. — Olene, species. 



Cocoons. — Gregarious, entirelv inclosed in a large mass of white 

 silk. 



In addition to the type series there are in the National Collection 

 four specimens reared by R. A. Cooley in Montana from a tussock 

 moth, and three specimens reared under Bureau of Entomology No. 

 4480° from Olene, species, in Wisconsin. 



