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brownish; abdomen more largely black, tergites laterally barely palo 

 margined, second and third obscurely yellowish at apex. 



Host. — Epagoge sulfureana. 



Type-locality. — Nashville, Tennessee. 



Type.— Cat. No. 20266, U.S.N.M. 



Described from 11 females and 6 males reared under Webster No. 

 11331, by C. C. Hill. 



The paratype females a-j exhibit a progressive decrease of the 

 color markmgs of thorax and abdomen, paratypes i and j having only 

 the scuteUum and narrow lateral margins of the compressed tergites 

 paler than the surrounding areas. Structurally the paratypes differ 

 only mmutely from the type. The smallest specimen, paratype j, is 

 slightly less than 5 mm. long. 



The male paratypes Jt to o vary both ways from the allotype, Jc, I, 

 and m having more yellow and o and p less. Paratype Ic has a large, 

 quadrate spot of yellow on the mesoscutum, the sternauli also yellow, 

 and the third and fourth tergites largely of that color. Paratype m 

 has the notauli black but otherwise it is more yellow than the allo- 

 type. The darkest specimen, paratype o, lacks the pale notauli and 

 the 3''ellow of the mesopleurum, the pronotum is dark in the lateral 

 impression and the markings of the abdomen are very obscure. 



CREMASTUS (CREMASTUS) FORBESII Weed. 



Cremastus forhesii Weed, Bull. 111. Lab. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, 18S8, p. 150. 



Described by Weed from specimens reared from Acleris minuta, this 

 species is represented in the United States National Museum by speci- 

 mens reared from Gelechia tnalhamaculella at Pcmberton, New Jersey 

 (Quaintance No. 12684), Rliopohota vacciniana at the same locality 

 (Quaintance No. 12681), Geleclda confusella at Benton Harbor, Michi- 

 gan (Quaintance No. 12532), and from Episimus argutanus at East 

 River, Connecticut. In addition there is one specimen from 

 Colorado. 



Except for the characters given in the key the species is very close 

 to epagoges Cushman. In some specimens the parapsidal lobes are 

 reddish brown, this color also embracing more or less of the pronotum 

 and mesopieura. The larger ocelli in both sexes furnish the best 

 character for distinguishing the species from its near relatives. 



CREMASTUS (ZALEPTOPYGUS) ROSTRATUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 7 mm., antennae 4.5 mm., ovipositer 2.5 mm. 

 Head subrostrif orm ; malar space distinctly longer than basal width 

 of mandible, weakly converging; clypeal foveae below level of lower 

 eye margin; clypeus strongly convex transversely, straight in profile, 

 about as long as interfoveal line, the suture arched above foveae, apex 



