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finely, in part confiuently, punctate; scutellum a little longer than 

 broad, slightly convex, smooth and shining, with only a few weak 

 punctures; propodeum short, strongly declivous, closely rugulose 

 and with a median areola that is rather poorly defined; radius of 

 anterior wing longer than intercubitus : posterior coxae smooth and 

 shining: inner sjDur of posterior tibia half as long as metatarsus. 

 Abdomen short and rather stout; chitinizecl plate of first tergite 

 large, the base and apex of about equal width, the sides of the plate 

 bulging somewhat, the surface closely, finely rugulose and provided 

 with a shallowly impressed longitudinal median area posteriorly; 

 second tergite very short, strongly transverse, the posterior margin 

 slightly arcuate, the surface of the plate very minutely granular; 

 following tergites smooth and shining; hypopygium large, slightly 

 surpassing apex of last tergite ; ovipositor sheaths about three-fourths 

 as long as the abdomen. Black; anterior femora except at base, 

 anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi, and the posterior tibiae except 

 at apex, yellow^; tegulae black; wings hyaline, stigma brown, the 

 veins pale, almost hj^aline. 



Male. — Legs even darker than in female; wings whitish hyaline; 

 stigma hyaline except the margin, which is brown; veins colorless. 



T'ype.— U.S.N.M. No. 42871. from Kenduskeag, Me. 



Host. — Depressaria heradiana De Geer. 



Cocoons. — White, elongate-cylindrical, solitary. 



Seven females and seven males reared July 22 and 23, 1926, by J. V. 

 Schatfner, jr., under Gipsy Moth Laboratory No. 12430 M2. There 

 is additional material of this species at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, 

 all reared from the same host as the type series, from Manchester 

 and Castleton, Vt. ; Bangor, Me. ; and Dover, Mass. 



APANTELES SCHAFFNERI, new species 



In my key to the North American species of Apanfeles ^ this spe- 

 cies runs to delicatus Howard. It differs from delicatus^ however, as 

 well as from all related species, especially in the exceptionally dark 

 posterior tibiae and in the unusual coloring of the posterior tarsi, 

 which have the basal segment black, the second and fifth segments 

 slightly dusky, and the third and fourth pale yellow. 



Female. — Length, barely 2 mm.* Head about as wdie as mes- 

 onotum ; face broad, finely punctate ; antennae slightly shorter than 

 the body, the apical segments considerably shortened. Mesoscutum 

 entirely closely punctate and opaque ; scutellum shining, with sparse 

 but distinct punctures ; propodeum very short, entirely closely rugu- 

 lose, median carina indistinct; posterior coxae smooth and shining; 

 posterior tibiae short and rather strongly thickened apically ; spurs of 

 hind tibia subequal and not distinctly half as long as metatarsus; 



•Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 500, 1920. 



