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second to fourth tergites, blackish apicolateral mark on fifth tergite, 

 and whitish marks on ventral edge of apical tergites; ovipositor sheath 

 black. 



Specimens: cf, Crystal Beach, Fla., May 18, 1952, J. R. Vockeroth 

 (Ottawa). 9, Englewood, Fla., Apr. 12, 1952, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 

 9, Marco Beach, Collier Co., Fla., Apr. 26, 1955, H. E. and M. A. 

 Evans (Ithaca). 9, in McPhail trap, Orange Co., Fla., Oct. 1936, 

 0. D. Link (Townes). 9, Delicias Oriente, Cuba, Feb. 24, 1915 (New 

 York), cf , Buenos Aires, Trinidad Mts., Cuba, May 8 to 14, 1936, 

 P. J. Darlington (Cambridge). 9 (type), Boqueron, Puerto Rico, 

 May 20, 1938, K. A. Bartlett (Washington). 



Wolcott records rearings in Puerto Rico from Hypsipyla grandella 

 and Pectinophora gossypiella (1941 and 1948, Journ. Agr. Univ. 

 Puerto Rico, vol. 25, p. 141, and vol. 32, p. 765). 



This species is known from Florida, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. 



4. Genus Apistephialtes 



Figure 287,a 



Apistes Seyrig, 1927, Eos, vol. 3, p. 221. Name preoccupied. Type: (Apistes 



perversus Seyrig) — ascaniae (Rudow); monobasic. 

 Apistephialtes Seyrig, 1928, Eos, vol. 4, p. 380. New name for Apistes Seyrig. 



Front wing 4 to 12 mm. long; body very long and slender; face and 

 clypeus black or the clypeus brownish or ferruginous; clypeus rather 

 narrow, weakly convex, its apical part impressed and with a median 

 notch which makes it bilobed, rarely also with a median subapical 

 tubercle; occipital carina complete, dipped on the midline; meso- 

 scutum with moderately dense, evenly distributed hairs except in 

 a Neo tropic species which has the mesoscutum almost bare; sub- 

 metapleural carina complete; propodeum rather long, without median 

 longitudinal carinae but usually with a broad weak median groove 

 on its basal 0.4 ± ; first tergite of moderate length, usually about 1.65 

 as long as wide in male and 1.4 as long as wide in female, with a 

 distinct lateral carina or ridge, its median longitudinal carinae ex- 

 tending about half its length; oblique basal grooves on second tergite 

 short, weak, and indistinct; third and fourth tergites with distinct 

 tubercles, their apical impunctate area occupying about 0.25 their 

 length; female subgenital plate sclerotized only laterally and apically; 

 ovipositor sheath about 1.6 to 3.0 as long as front wing; ovipositor 

 slender, straight, cylindric, its tip as in figures 329, e-g. 



This genus includes the Holarctic Ephialtes tenuiventris Holmgren 

 1860 and Ephialtes arcticus Roman 1914; the six Nearctic species 

 treated below; the European Pimpla punctulata Ratzeburg 1848, 

 Pimpla caudata Ratzeburg 1848, Ephialtes crassiseta Thomson 1877, 

 Ephialtes ascaniae Rudow 1883, and Ephialtes cydiae Perkins 1942; 



