TWO GENERA OF CHALCID-FLIES GAHAX 369 



abdomen. In color and sculpture the two species are practically 

 identical. 



The female type was collected in Kern County, Calif., by Albert 

 Koebele. Besides the type, the United States National Museum col- 

 lection contains a female from Yuba City, Calif., reared from Anarsia 

 lineatella Zeller, July 13, 1902, by L. S. Jones and another female from 

 Fort Bayard, N. Mex., reared November 3, 1913, from Evcfr'ta sp. on 

 Pinus ponderosa by Carl Heinrich under Hopk. U. S. No. 12101c. 



6. ENCYRTASPIS SEMIRUFUS Gahan 



Enci/rataspis soiiirufits Gahan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 4, p. 10, 1927. 



Encyrtaspis semh'ufus is extremely close to caJifornkus and may 

 possibly prove to be merely an eastern form of the west coast species. 

 The two forms apparently can be distinguished only by the characters 

 mentioned in the foregoing key to species. 



The holotype female was reared from a pupa of GraphoUtha inoleda 

 (Busck) taken at Macon, Ga., whereas the allotype, together with 

 two other males and a single female, is said to have been reared at New 

 Orleans from an unknown leaf skeletonizer. Other specimens in the 

 national collection include a paratype taken in Spanish moss at Vic- 

 toria, Tex.; a series of 7 females reared from G. molesta at Clem- 

 son College, S. C, by W. C. Nettles ; specimens reared from this same 

 host at the Oriental Fruit Moth Laboratory of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology and Plant Quarantine, from material collected at Beverly. 

 Masonville, Moorestown, and Burlington, N. J., Olcott, N. Y., and 

 Smithsburg, Md., and 5 specimens said to have parasitized LaetiUa 

 coccidivora (Comstock) at New Orleans. 



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