NO. 1888. NEW WH\EUM0N-FLIE8~VIERECK. 145 



segment black, indistinctly sculptured at base; rest of abdomen black 

 or blackish; abdomen depressed. In having the head apparently 

 wider than long; in the first segment being wider at apex than at base 

 and in the second plate of the abdomen being as wide or a little nar- 

 rower at base than long down the middle, it agrees with Apanteles 

 (Protapanteles) pholisorse Riley. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14320, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Vienna, Virginia; bred July 31, 1911, from cocoons 

 on grass by R. A. Cushman under Quaintance No. 7067, Bureau of 

 Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



Named for Mr. R. A. Cushman. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) ELECTRO, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Related to Apanteles (Protapanteles) 

 cushmani Viereck, from which, as originally described, it differs as 

 follows: Hind femora blackish-brown; stigma black; propodeum pol- 

 ished at base; first segment hardly one and one-half times as long as 

 wide at base, its apical third punctured; second segment approxi- 

 mately two-thirds as long as the third, its plate trapezoidal, not 

 sculptured down the middle, and apically transversely impressed, its 

 sides straight anteriorly ; third segment not at all sculptured at base ; 

 abdomen compressed and black or blackish throughout. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14321, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — San Diego, California; bred from Hemileuca eledra, 

 May 20, 1911. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) PAPILIONIS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Related to Protapanteles creaionoti 

 Viereck, from the original description of which it differs as follows: 

 Propodeum almost without sculpture, mostly smooth and polished; 

 first dorsal plate apparently twice as long as wdde at base, its basal 

 three-fourths parallel sided or nearly, indistinctly puncturecl and stra- 

 mineous at apex; second plate apparently four times as wide at apex 

 as at base, apparently twice as long do^vn the middle as wide at base, 

 stramineous; third segment hardly longer than the second; h^'po- 

 pygium shorter than the pygidium. 



Male. — Essentiall}' as in the female, but with the second plate 

 mostly dark. 



Type.—Cfit. No. 14322, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Mysore, India, June 29, 1909, from larvfc of Papilio 

 polytes, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



Paratypcs hale from Bangalore, from larvte of Papilio demoleus, 

 on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



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