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plcurum to those in which the black is reduced to a small spot at the 

 base of the propodeum and the space between scutellum and wings, 

 and in one specimen even this is obsolete. Tlie head and abdomen 

 vary to almost as great a degree. Besides the Texas specimens, this 

 species is represented from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and New 

 Mexico. 



CREMASTUS (CREMASTUS) TORTRICIDIS. new species. 



Female. — Length 7 mm., antennae 4 mm., ovipositor 3 mm. 

 Related to platynotae Cushman, but differing from it as follows; 

 Diameter of ocelli slightly more than half as long as postocellar lino, 

 the latter twice as long as ocell-ocular luie. Pronotum laterally 

 weakly striate; second discoidal cell half as wide at base as at apex. 

 Compressed portion distinctly three times as long as deep, third ter- 

 gite nearly as deep as fourth. 



In color very like platynotae, but occipital and ocellar spots are 

 separated; prescutum, prepectus, and metastemum not black; black 

 marldng of propodeum less extensive ; first tergite largely testaceous, 

 black at base, all others black, testaceous at apex. 



Host. — Epagoges sulfureana. 



Type-locality. — Nashville , Tennessee . 



Type.— C-At. No. 20263, U.S.N.M. 



Described from one female reared with a nmnber of specimens of 

 C. epagoges, new species by C. C. Hill under Webster No. 11331. 



CREMASTUS (CREMASTUS) DECORATUS Gravenhorst. 



Crcmastus decoratus Gravenhorst, Ichn. Eur., vol. 3, 182S, p. 734, 

 Temelucha plutellae Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 36, 1904, p. 101. 



This species has apparently been introduced into the United States 

 with one of its European hosts, Evetria huoliana, a specimen having 

 been reared from that host on Long Island, New York, mider Hop- 

 kins U. S. No. 13905 L, It is readily distinguished from the American 

 species most closely allied to it by its larger size and highly ornamented 

 thorax. Tlie lateral ocelli in the female are about as broad as the 

 length of the ocell-ocular lino and more than half as great as the post- 

 ocellar line. There is considerable variation in the thoracic color; in 

 the European specimen this is largely black, the type of plutellae 

 (Ashmead) has the thorax quite largely yellowish and reddish laterally, 

 while the American specimen is midway between these two in color. 



CREMASTUS (CREMASTUS) BREVICAUDA, new species. 



Female. — Length 6 mm,, antennae 4 mm., ovipositor 1.3 mm. 

 Eyes divergent below, scarcely longer 'than greatest width of face, 

 face medially elevated and punctate; clypeus nearly as long as inter- 

 foveal Hne which is but little longer than foveo-ocular line; malar 

 space about as long as basal width of mandibles, in front view straight ; 

 temples nearly flat; lateral ocellar, postocellar, and ocell-ocular 



