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APANTELES ALYPIAE, new species. 



liuns to category 119 in my key, and falls between depressus and 

 pyralidls. The antennae are longer than in those species, with the 

 first four flagellar segments subequal; it differs further in having 

 no median carina on the i^roj^odeum. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Face broader than long, indistinctly 

 punctate and strongly shining; vertex polished; temples somewhat 

 punctate behind ; antennae as long as the body, the first four flagel- 

 lar segments subequal, the five apical segments much shortened; 

 mesoscutum entirel}- shallowly punctate, shining; scutellar disk with 

 very few indistinct punctures, subpolished ; mesopleurae highly pol- 

 ished ; propodeum wholly rugulose, with a more or less distinct lon- 

 gitudinal impression medially, and without a median carina; fore 

 wing with radius and first intercubitus subequal in length ; posterior 

 coxae ver3' smooth, subpolished; spurs of posterior tibiae subeciual 

 and nearly half as long as the metatarsus; abdomen ovate, the first 

 dorsal abdominal plate Avith base and apex of apparently equal 

 breadth, the sides bulging somewhat just beyond the middle, the 

 ba^al half of the plate polished, the apical half rugulose; dorsal 

 plate of the second segment transverse, the sides oblique on the basal 

 half, parallel on posterior half, entirely finely rugulose; posterior 

 margin of second tergite straight, or curving slightly posteriorly at 

 the sides; third abdominal tergite much longer than the second, and 

 like the following, smooth and polished; ovipositor sheaths sub- 

 exserted. Black; antennae black, tegulae and wing-bases brownish- 

 black; wings hyaline; venation pale brown; fore and middle legs 

 wholly yellow; posterior coxae black except at extreme apex; re- 

 myinder of posterior legs yellow, except a very small spot at ex- 

 treme apex of hind femora, the apical third of hind tibiae and the 

 hind tarsi, which are fuscous; abdomen black. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



Type lodhl'dy. — Wallingford, Connecticut. 



Type.— C^it. No. 24025, U.S.N.M. 



Host. — Alypia octomaculata Fabricius. 



Described from eight female and five male specimens reared in 

 the Bureau of Entomology, under Quaintance No. 16569, June 2-4, 

 1919, by B. A. Porter. Two other specimens of the same series are 

 in the Cornell University Collection. 



APANTELES OLENIDIS, new species. 



Very similar to -fiskei Viereck, from which it differs in the black 

 tegulae, the more shining, more weakly punctate mesonotum, the more 

 shining hind coxae, and the somewhat stouter abdomen. Runs to 

 argynn'idis in my key, but has mesoscutum and scutellum much more 

 smooth and shining. This may be a Western race of fiskei. 



