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pair turned up, one pair of discal scutellars; three sternopleural ma- 

 crochaetae; legs black with tibiae brownish black; midtibia with one 

 median anterolateral bristle and one very small one above it; hind 

 tibia subciliate; wing grayish hyaline, third vein with two to three 

 bristles at the base. 



Abdomen black, dorsum of all segments including the first com- 

 pletely covered with heavy gray pollen; indication of dorsal vitta 

 on second and third segments; abdominal hairs depres?ed; first and 

 second segments with a pair, and third with a row of marginal 

 macrochaetae; fourth segment with a row of discal macrochaetae, 

 tipped with marginal bristles. 



Length 9 mm. 



Female (allotype). — Front at narrowest 0.30 head width; six 

 frontal bristles; third segment of antenna four times second; two 

 fronto-orbital bristles. Midtibia with one median anterolateral 

 bristle and a smaller one above; pulvilli small. Abdomen heavily 

 covered with gray pollen; dorsal vitta indicated on second segment 

 only; fourth segment with a row of discal and marginal macro- 

 chaetae. Otherwise the description is the same as for the male. 



Length 9 mm. 



Other specimens vary as follows: Front of male 0.28 to 0.29 and 

 of female 0.30 to 0.32 ; 7 to 10 frontal bristles in male and 5 to 6 in 

 female; third segment of antenna in female three and one-half times 

 second. Mid tibia usually but not always with 1 small bristle above 

 the 1 strong median anterolateral bristle. Dorsal vitta obscurely 

 marked. 



Length 7 to 9 mm. 



Type locality. — Clayton, N. Y. 



Distribution. — Massachusetts 4, New York 2, New Jersey 4, Penn- 

 sylvania 1, Maryland 1. 



Type.— Male, U.S.N.M. No. 54174. 



Hosts. — Euchaetias egle (Drury) 37, Cyenia tenera (Hiibner) 42, 

 Pyrausta futilalis (Lederer) 11, Cyenia inopinata (Henry Ed- 

 wards) 2. 



Remarks. — The material examined consisted of reared specimens 

 bearing Gypsy Moth Laboratory note numbers as follows: Type 

 and one female paratype reared from Euchaetias egle. No. 12130L10; 

 one male paratype reared from E. egle, Adams, N. Y., No. 12130M7; 

 one female paratype reared from E. egle, North Branch, N. J., No. 

 11741M9; allotype, three male paratypes, and one female paratype 

 reared from Cyenia tenera, Somerville, N. J., No. 11779H3; one fe- 

 male paratype reared from C. tenera, Somerville, N. J., No. 11779H2; 

 82 additional reared specimens; and one male, Piunrners Island, 

 Md. (Shannon). 



