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the apex, very finely ruguloso-pimctate laterally and at apex, smooth 

 and highly polished medially at base, this polished area narrowing 

 posteriorly but extending to apical fourth of tergite; second tergite 

 shorter than the third, finely rugulose except for broad lateral 

 margins, which are smooth; the sculptured plate set off by irreg- 

 ular, somewhat oblique, impressed lines ; third and following tergites 

 polished ; hypop^^gium not surpassing apex of last tergite ; ovipositor 

 sheaths only slightly exserted. Black ; tegulae black ; wings hyaline ; 

 stigma and veins brown; all coxae black; remainder of legs yellow, 

 except apex of posterior femora above, apex of posterior tibiae, 

 and the posterior tarsi, which parts are black; lateral membranous 

 margins of first and second tergites brown, darker on second tergite 

 than on first. 



Male. — Like the female in essential characters. 



ryp(?.— U.S.N.M. No. 42873, from Shirley, Me. 



Host. — Halisidota tnaculata Harris. 



Cocoons. — Pure white, gregarious, inclosed within the cocoon of 

 the host. 



Described from five females and three males reared June 14. 1928, 

 by J. V. Schaffner, jr., in the Bureau of Entomology, under Gipsy 

 Moth Laboratory No. 12451 N25. At the Gipsy Moth Laboratory 

 there are additional series, not included among the type material, 

 from Winterport, Patten, Hampden, Wallagrass, Fort Kent, Eagle 

 Lake, Grand Isle, Van Buren, St. John, Ashland, and Presque Isle,. 

 Me.; Chateaugay and Nicholville, N. Y.; Hopkinton, N. H. ; and 

 Cheshire, Mass. All this material was reared from Halisidota 

 maculata. 



APANTELES CINGILIAE, new species 



Most similar to Jcoebelei Riley but differing particularly in the 

 less strongly compressed abdomen and the completely black hind 

 femora. 



Female. — Length, 2.7 mm. Head nearly as wide as mesonotum; 

 face only very slightly broader than long, shining, sparsely shallowly 

 punctate; antennae about as long as the body or only indistinctly 

 shorter, even the apical segments elongate. Thorax stout; meso- 

 scutum closely punctate, shining; scutellum with a few distinct punc- 

 tures; propodeum closely rugulose, very narrowly smooth and shin- 

 ing at extreme base, and with a complete median longitudinal carina ; 

 posterior coxae large, mostly smooth; inner spur of posterior tibia 

 longer than the outer and more than half as long as metatarsus; 

 nulius arising from a little beyond middle of stigma and not longer 

 than intercubitus, with which it is rather strongly angled. Abdo- 



