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Hosts. — Perigea sutor Guenee; Platysenta videns Giienee. 



Cocoons. — Large, white, witli a little loose silk. 



I have seen the following material of this species: type of maculi- 

 pennls, from Texas, paratype and six other specimens from Georgia, 

 in the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences; three specimens of the 

 type series of macuUpennis, from Texas, in the United States Na- 

 tional Mnscimi. The National Collection contains in addition, one 

 specimen from Lawrence, Kansas, collected June 20, 1895, by Hugo 

 Kahl; one from Cypress Mills, Texas; one from Louisiana and one 

 from Colorado, from the C. F. Baker Collection; one reared at 

 Raleigh, North Carolina, August 23, 1919, by C. S. Brimley, from 

 Pe?'i(/ea sutor Guenee; five specimens, without locality label, reared 

 from Platysejita videns Guenee; two specimens labeled Victoria, 

 Texas, October 21, 1914, J. D. Mitchell, collector, and bearing Hun- 

 ter No. 3478; one from the same locality by the same collector, 

 dated April 14, 1915, bearing Hunter No. 3579; and one specimen 

 taken at Victoria, Texas, August 3, 1910, on Cassia., species, by J. D.. 

 Mitchell. 



6. MICROGASTER IRmESCENS Cresson. 



Microgastcr iridescens Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad., vol. 4, 1865, p. 68. 

 Urogaster iridescens Cresson, Ashmead, Trans. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1900, pp. 

 277, 278. 



Type. — In the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. 



This species has the habitus of an Apanteles, which fact, together 

 with the indistinct, minute second cubital cell, caused Ashmead to 

 erroneously refer it to Urogaster, one of the genera into which he 

 divided Apanteles. It is readily separated from xanthaspis by the 

 pale yellow posterior coxae and the less strongly sculptured meso- 

 notum. 



Cuba; Florida. 



Known from the type and two paratype specimens from Cuba, in 

 the Philadelphia Academy of vSciences; and eight specimens in the 

 United States National Museum which were collected by Dr. H, G.. 

 Dyar, at Palm Beach, Florida. 



7. MICROGASTER XANTHASPIS (Ashmead). 



Apanteles xanthaspis Ashmead, Trans. London Ent. Soc. 190U, p. 280. 

 Microgaster aanthaspis Ashmead, Muesebeck, Proc. L'. S'. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 58, 1920, p. 570. 

 Cotypes. — Two cotypes, one of each sex, are in the United States 

 National Museum; others are in the British Museum. 



At once distinguished from iridescens by the black posterior coxae 

 and femora, and the confluently punctate mesoscutum. 

 St. Vincent; Grenada. 



Known to me only from the two cotypes in the National Col- 

 lection. 



