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XANTHOPIMPLA PUNCTATA (Fabricius). 



Synonym. — Neopimploides syleptae A^iereck. 



Viereck's type agrees in every way with what appears to be com- 

 monly accepted as the Fabrician species. 



(EPIURUS) ZAGLYPTUS CARPOCAPSAE (Ashmead). 



This Eussian species is a true Zagh/ptus and runs in Schmiede- 

 knecht's Opuscula Ichneumonologica (p. 1161) to varipes (Graven- 

 horst). Differs in being large red and in having yellow markings on 

 face and scutellums. The host record of the type is undoubtedly 

 erroneous, the species of Zaglyptus being parasitic on spider eggs. 



ASPHRAGIS? CHINENSIS, new speciea. 



Runs in the keys of Foerster, x4.shmead, and Schmiedeknecht to 

 Asphragis, but differs from all of the North American and Euro- 

 pean species referable to that genus that are known to me in the 

 form of the apex of the ovipositor. In the present species this has 

 two notches dorsally a short distance back from the apex, while in 

 the other species there is only one notch. 



The species is also rather peculiar in its host relations, the seven 

 specimens having been reared in two lots from some insect that 

 makes a slight gall on twigs of pear by boring in the pith. 



Female. — Length, 4 mm. ; antennae, 2.75 mm. ; ovipositor, 2.5 mm. 

 Head rather full and rounded, distinctly wider than thorax; finely 

 punctate, face and f rons densely, temples sparsely so ; occiput shal- 

 lowly concave; frons convex; face with a median rounded elevation, 

 flanked on either side by a shallow impression; malar space equal 

 to basal width of mandible ; cheeks convex ; clypeus convex, rounded 

 at apex, about twice as long as broad, distinctly discreted ; ocelli in 

 a low triangle, postocellar line much longer than ocell-ocular line 

 and nearly three times as long as diameter of lateral ocellus; first 

 joint of flagellum distinctly longer than second, apical joint large. 

 Thorax cylindrical, slightly more than twice as long as high, shin- 

 ing, minutely punctate, densely so on mesoscutum; pronotum pol- 

 ished, largely impunctate ; propodeum weakly coriaceous above, pol- 

 ished behind, pleural and apical carinae distinct; legs long, slen- 

 der; wings large, areolet entirely wanting, nervulus postfurcal, in- 

 clivous, basal vein strongly curved, nervellus broken far below mid- 

 dle, inclivous. Abdomen as long as head and thorax together, sub- 

 polished-coriaceous, first tergite narrowly sessile, two-thirds as wide 

 at apex as long, with a median subapical impression, dorsal carinae 

 fading out at spiracles, which are distinctly before middle; other i 

 tergites transverse; second and third, especially the second, with ' 

 transverse, subapical impressions, thyridia small but distinct, trans- 



