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APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) STAUROPI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Head apparently wider than long; 

 black, antennae brownish, palpi pale; pleurae not separated from the 

 mesosternum by a carinate fold; scutel shining, sparsely punctured; 

 tegulae blackish, wings with a dark cast, stigma and veins more or 

 less brownish, legs mostly stramineous, coxae black; propodeum 

 roughened, with a more or less distinct median longitudinal carina; 

 first dorsal plate appearing shorter than wide at apex, wider at apex 

 than at base; its apical half mostly punctured, its basal half mostly 

 impunctate; second plate transversely oblong, apparently two and a 

 half times as wide at base as long down the middle, parallel sided, 

 mostly smooth and not sculptured, with indefinite sculpture and a 

 median welt; third dorsal plate not at all sculptured, a little longer 

 than the second and like the latter mth its lateral margins yellowish; 

 hypopygium not surpassing the pygidium and ovipositor scarcely 

 exserted. 



Type.— Csit. No. 14323, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Bangalore, Mysore, India, from larvae of Sfauropus 

 alternus, on authority of L. C. Coleman. 



As evidenced by one paratopotype, the sculpture of the first and 

 second segments have a tendency to become totally effaced and the 

 lateral edges of the second and third segments to become dark. 



APANTELES (PSEUDAPANTELES) SESI.ffi, new species. 



Female. — Length, 3 mm. Related to Apanteles (Pseudapanteles) 

 consimilis Viereck, from the original description of wliich it differs as 

 follows: Membranous portion of second dorsal segment blackish, 

 hind coxae basally black, costa virtually concolorous with the stigma, 

 all veins of fore wings brownish stramineous; propodeum mostly 

 smooth and polished, sparsely punctured, roughened along the 

 median carina, its lateral hind angles striate; first dorsal plate with 

 its sides converging toward the apex, apparently wider at base than 

 at apex, its length obviously more than twice its width at apex, the 

 apical half with a median longitudinal furrow at base, the basal half 

 finely sculptured and punctate, the apical half rather finely, indis- 

 tinctly rugoso-punctate; second plate at most nearly three times as 

 wide as long down the iTdddle, the latter length about two-thirds its 

 width at base, smooth and sliining down the middle, roughened at 

 base, elsewhere dullish and punctured ; tliird segment hardly twice as 

 wide at base as long down the middle, smooth and shining, with 

 scattered indefinite pit-like impressions. 



Male. — Essentially as in the female. 



Type.— Ceit. No. 14324, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Vienna, Virginia, May 20, 31, 1911, parasite of 

 Sesia sdtula, on authority of R. A. Cushman, who reared the species 



