24 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.61. 



Protapanteles recurvariae Ashmead, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 11, 1903, 



p. 144. 

 Microgaster recurvariae Ashmead, Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



58, 1920, p. 570. 



Ti/pe.—Say's type has been lost, but the United States National 

 Museum contains authentic material determined by Ashmead. The 

 types of recurvariae are also in the National Collection. 



Indiana; District of Columbia; Illinois; Ohio; New Jersey; 

 Colorado. 



Hosts. — Recurvaria ficeaella Kearfott and R. thujaella Kearfott 

 (Ashmead). 



There can be no doubt that recurvariae Ashmead is zonaria Say. 

 The species is readily distinguished by the characters given in the 

 key. 



The National Collection contains, in addition to the types of 

 recurva^^lae., eight specimens from the Ashmead Collection, taken at 

 Washington, District of Columbia ; four from Algonquin, Illinois ; 

 one from Ohio and one labeled " Colo. 2037, Collection C. F. Baker." 

 I have also seen the following additional material : one specimen 

 from Chicago, Illinois, in Doctor Brues's collection at Harvard Uni- 

 versity ; two, from Flatbush, New York, belonging to the American 

 Museum of Natural History; and three specimens taken at Ithaca, 

 New York, and three at Fairhaven, New York, which are in the col- 

 lection of Cornell University. 



2. MICROGASTER ECDYTOLOPHAE. new species. 



Very similar to zoiiarla^ differing from that species in its some- 

 what larger size, in the posterior coxae being black on the basal half, 

 in the black second tergite, and in the longer ovipositor. It has the 

 habitus of Afardeles and is easily misplaced in that genus because 

 of the indistinctness of the second cubital cell. 



Female. — Length 3 mm. Face a little broader than long, with dis- 

 tinct separate punctures; vertex mostly smooth and shining; temples 

 weakly punctate and rather opaque ; antennae about as long as the 

 body; mesoscutum evenly rounded and rather evenly covered with 

 distinct shallow punctures, shining; scutellum flat, impunctate. highly 

 polished, with a poorly defined smooth impression posteriorly ; pro- 

 podeum punctate or very weakly rugulose, without a median carina, 

 and with a suggestion of a median areola outlined by faint carinae; 

 meta pleurae almost entirely smooth and highly polished; stigma 

 rather large, somewhat shorter than metacarpus ; radius arising con- 

 siderably beyond the middle of stigma, perpendicular to the anterior 

 margin of wing and about as long as the first intercubitus ; second 

 cubital cell exceedingly minute, the second intercubitus very short and 

 indistinct, and connecting cubitus and first intercubitus rather than 



