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Host. — Cutworms. 



Described from nineteen specimens reared from a cutworm, at Port 

 Huron, Michigan, July 3, 1916, by J. J. Davis, in the Bureau of 

 Entomology, under Cage No. D 498. 



In addition to the type series the National Collection contains the 

 following material of this species: Five specimens, with cocoons, 

 reared from a cutworm, at Lafayette, Indiana, in the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, under Cage No. C 137l-a ; five specimens from Hagerstown, 

 Maryland, W. E. Pennington, Collector, bearing Accession No. 2463 ; 

 one specimen labeled " Texas, Belfrage " ; and three specimens from 

 the Collection of C. F. Baker bearing the following numbers : Cana. 

 2051, Cana. 2027, and Cana. 2540. I have also seen, in the Cornell 

 University Collection, specimens from McLean and Rock City, New 

 York; and Waubamic, Ontario, Canada. 



30. MICROPLITIS BRADLEYI, new species. 



Very similar to hrassicae, from which it is readily separated, how- 

 ever, by the somewhat roughened first dorsal abdominal plate, by the 

 rugulose and opaque face, and by the yellow fore and middle coxae. 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm. Face rather coarsely ruguloso-punctate 

 and opaque, the clypeus comewhat less so ; antennae slender, about as 

 long as the body; vertex, temples, and cheeks punctate and dull, 

 though a little less so than the face; mesoscutum confluently punc- 

 tate and pilose ; parapsidal furrows wanting ; scutellum a little longer 

 than broad at base, shallowly punctate, opaque, pubescent; meso- 

 pleurae confluently punctate and opaque anteriorly and below the lon- 

 gitudinal crenulate furrow, highly polished above it; propodeum 

 coarsely rugoso-reticulate, with a median longitudinal carina; stigma 

 large, a little longer than metacarpus; radius directed outward and 

 about as long as the first intercubitus ; legs slender; posterior coxae 

 short, rather smooth and shining ; spurs of posterior tibiae less than 

 half as long as the metatarsus ; abdomen ovate, narrow at base, 

 broadening posteriorly; first dorsal abdominal plate very slender, 

 distinctly narrower at apex than at base, and more than twice as long 

 as broad at base, smooth and polished on basal half, finely rugulose 

 on the apical half ; second dorsal plate small, triangular, broadest pos- 

 teriorly, and like the following tergites, smooth and polished ; mem- 

 branous margins along sides of the two basal abdominal plates very 

 broad; hypopygium not surpassing apex of the last dorsal segment; 

 ovipositor subexserted. Black; labrum and palpi pale; tcgnlae and 

 wing-bases testaceous; wings hyaline, the costa yellow, the remaining 

 veins pale brownish to hyaline, the stigma light brown, with a large 

 transparent spot in the membrane at base, legs yellowish, except the 

 posterior coxae, which are black, and the apex of the posterior femora 



