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cubital cell smaller than usual and the second intercubitus joining 

 the first intercubitus at about the middle. A similar small second 

 cubital cell is found in some other species of Microgaster ; among our 

 North American si)ecies it occurs in M. zonaria (Say) and M. ecdy- 

 tolophae Muesebeck. 



Genus MICROPLITIS Foerster 



Microplitis Foerster, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rlieiul., vol. 19, p. 245, 1862. 



(Genotj'pe, Microgaster sordipes Nees.) 

 Dupailotoma Cameron, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 101, 1906. 



[Geuotype, DapsUotoma tcstaceipea Cameron (uew synonymy).] 



MICROPLITIS TESTACEIPES (Cameron) (new combination) 



DapsUofoma tcstaceipes Cameron, Jouru. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 

 101, 1906. 



This species, which is the genotj^pe of DapsUotoma^ is a perfectly 

 normal Microplitis. The antennae of the type, which is in the Brit- 

 ish Museum, are 18-segmented, not 36-segmented, as noted by 

 Cameron. 



Genus APANTELES Foerster 



Apanteles Foersteij, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl., vol. 19, p. 245, 1862. 

 (Genotype, Microgaster obscurus Nees.) 



Xestapanteles Cameron, Zeitschr. Natur. Halle, vol. 81, p. 447, 1909. [Geno- 

 type, Xestapanteles latiannulatvs Cameron (new synonymy).] 



APANTELES LATIANNULATUS (Cameron) (new combination) 



Xestapanteles latiatinuJatus Cameron, Zeitschr. Natur. Halle, vol. 81, p. 447, 

 1909. 



1 have examined Cameron's two original specimens of Xesta- 

 panteles latiannulatus, which are in the collection of the Berlin 

 Zoological Museum. The species unquestionably belongs to 

 Apanteles, as this genus was defined in my revision of the Nearctic 

 species.^ It is not clear how Cameron could have described the 

 antennae as 31-SGgmented, for, like those of all other species of 

 Apanteles, they are 18-segmented. 



APANTELES PARALECHIAE, new species 



Most similar to polychrosidis Viereck, but readily distinguished 

 from that species by the slenderer thorax, by the mesoscutum being 

 evenly distinctly punctate and opaque, by the shorter and subequal 

 spurs of the posterior tibiae, and by the generally smaller size. 



Female. — Length, about 1.8 mm. Head strongly transverse, at 

 least as wide as mesonotum; face practically smooth; antennae 



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