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as thorax, and hardly twice as long as its greatest breadth; first 

 abdominal tergite as broad at apex as long, and coarsely rugose, 

 second tergite transverse, two and one-half times as broad as long, 

 entirely rugose; the crenulate suture between the second and third 

 tergites distinctly curving forward at the sides ; the first and second 

 tergites together covering about two-thirds of the dorsum of the 

 abdomen ; third abdominal tergite finely striate on the basal half of 

 the middle two-thirds, smooth and polished beyond like the following 

 tergites; hypopygium not surpassing the apex of the last dorsal- 

 abdominal segment; ovipositor sheaths slightly more than half as 

 long as the abdomen. Black; palpi blackish at base; antennae, 

 tegulae and wing-bases, black ; wings hyaline, very feebly fuliginous 

 on the apical third; veins and stigma brown, the latter with a dis- 

 tinct pale spot at base ; all coxae and basal segment of all trochanters 

 black; remainder of legs testaceous, except a very small black spot 

 on the under side of the anterior and middle femora at base, and 

 the extreme apex of the posterior femora and tibiae, and more or less 

 of the posterior tarsi, which are dusky; abdomen wholly black. 



Male. — As in the female except that the abdomen is a little more 

 slender. 



Type locality. — Oxnard, California. 



Type.— Cat. No. 23994, U.S.N.M. 



Hosts. — Phlyctaenia ferrugalis Hiibner ; P. operculella Zeller. 



Described from three female and three male specimens reared by 

 R. L. Boyden, from P. ferrugalis.^ in the Bureau of Entomology, under 

 Chittenden No. 3100-02, at Oxnard, California. 



There is in the National Collection also a series of three specimens 

 reared by J. E. Graf, from P. operculella., at Pasadena, California, 

 under Chittenden No. 2230. I have seen another specimen in Doctor 

 Brues's collection from Los Angeles, California. 



25. MICROGASTEK EPAGOGES Gahan. 



Microgaster epagoges Gahan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, 1917, p. 197. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Readily placed by use of the characters given in the table to species. 



Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York. 



Host. — Epagoge sulfureana Clemens. 



Besides the type series from Nashville, Tennessee, the National Col- 

 lection has one specimen reared at Galena, Illinois, and two reared 

 at Lafayette, Indiana, by J. J. Davis, also one specimen labeled " Colo. 

 2082 Collection C. F. Baker." Doctor Brues's Collection, at Harvard 

 University, contains a single specimen, taken at Forest Hills, Massa- 

 chusetts, by P. W. Whiting ; and the Cornell University Collection has 

 one specimen taken at Ithaca, New York. 



