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and polished, indefinitely sculptured at apex; second -plate apparently 

 one and one-half times as long down the middle as wide at base, black 

 throughout; third segment blackish throughout, part of venter stra- 

 mineous, membranous portion of dorsum entirely blackish. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14318, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Vegati, Mysore, India, September 12, 1909, from 

 larvae of Orgyia postica, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



Named for Mr. L. C. Coleman. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) CREATONOTI, new species. 



Female. — ^Length, 2 mm. Black, shining; scape testaceous, flagel 

 brownish, its joints near the apex distinctly longer than wide, labrum 

 and palpi pale; head apparently wider than long; thorax not depressed, 

 apparently as wide as thick dorsoventrally ; scutel polished, almost 

 impunctate; tegulse stramineous; costa, stigma, radius, transverse 

 cubitus, and third abscissa of cubitus, brownish, other veins mostly 

 stramineous, wings transparent, with a dark tinge; legs, including 

 C0X8B and trochanters, almost completely stramineous, apical third 

 of hind tibiae and all of hmd tarsi more or less brownish; propodeum 

 indefinitely sculptured, without a median longitudinal carina; first 

 dorsal plate apparently more than twice as long as wide at base and 

 virtually twice as wide at base as at apex, punctured and black at 

 apex, elsewhere mostly stramineous and polished; second plate appar- 

 ently twice as wide at apex as at base, nearly as wide at base as long 

 down the middle, polished, impunctate, testaceous to blackish; third 

 dorsal segment apparently one and one-half times as long as the second, 

 polished, impunctate, more or less stramineous laterally, dark down 

 the middle; most of venter and membranous portion of abdomen 

 stramineous; hypopygium extending a little beyond the pygidium, 

 ovipositor a little exserted. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14319, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Honalli, Mysore, India, July 10, 1910, from larvae of 

 Creatonotus alhistriga, on authority of L. C. Coleman; two paratopo- 

 types under date of September 6, 1910. Paratypes hale from Ban- 

 galore, from Arctiid larvae, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) CUSHMANI, new species. 



Male. — Length, 2 mm. Related to Apanteles {Pixdapanteles) plioli- 

 sorse Riley, from which it differs as follows: Scape black, tegulae black, 

 coxae black; propodeum coarsely rugose; first segment a little more 

 than one and one-half times as long as wide at base, its apical half 

 coarsely sculptured ; second segment not much shorter than the third ; 

 the second plate transverse, nearly oblong, its sides curved, lateral 

 edge of the membranous portion of the second segment pale; third 



