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sp., 2 from Malacosoma pluviale, and 1 rearing each from Malacosoma 

 americanum, M. fragile, Apatela americana, Apatela sp., Archips 

 argyrospilus, Ctenucha virginica, Epargyreus clarus, Hemerocampa 

 leucostigma, Leucania linita, Olene plagiata, Orgyia antiqua badia, arctiid 

 cocoon, pyraustid on Helianthus, Noctuidae, lepidopterous pupa, 

 Xylotrechus sp., and Diprion hercyniae. 



This species is transcontinental in the Canadian and Transition 

 zones, where it is often very common in woods. Moderately large 

 Lepidoptera are the usual hosts. 



3. Coccygomimus maurus (Cresson) 



Figure 326,k 



Pimpla maura Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 145; ? . Type: 

 9 , Texas (Philadelphia) . 



Front wing 9 to 15 mm. long; body moderately stout; punctures of 

 face coarse, close medially, sparser laterally; apex of female clypeus 

 very weakly concave; metapleurum with coarse punctures and oblique 

 striae or rugulosity. 



Male: Black. Front of scape, tegula, scutellum, postscutellum, 

 front and middle tarsi except for the apices of their segments, spot 

 on front coxa, usually spot on middle coxa, front femur in front, apex 

 or more of middle femur in front, front and middle tibiae except for a 

 stripe behind, and incomplete subbasal band on hind tibia, white; 

 wings lightly infuscate, the basal 0.4 paler. 



Female: Black. Sometimes front part of tegula, sometimes spot 

 on scutellum, more or less of front femur and tibia in front, and apex 

 of middle femur in front, white; sometimes lateral apical corners of 

 tergites 3 to 6 obscurely whitish; wings dark fuscous. 



Specimens: 9, Alachua Co., Fla., April 1, 1949, F. N. Young (Ann 

 Arbor), cf , reared from Hemerocampa leucostigma, Brookfield, Fla., 

 Apr. 20, 1918 (Washington). 9, Gainesville, Fla., May 6, 1948, H. V. 

 Weems, Jr. (Washington). 9, La Belle, Fla., April 21, J. N. Knull 

 (Washington). 9, Orange Co., Fla., April 6, Alexander and Walker 

 (Ann Arbor). 9, Paradise Key, Fla., April 1, 1919, C. A. Mosier 

 (Washington), cf, Paradise Key, Fla., April 7, 1951, H. and M. 

 Townes (Townes). d\ reared from Orgyia sp. from cypress swamp, 

 Fla., 1912 (New York). 9, Waccamaw Lake, N. C, April 1920 

 (Washington). 9, Wallace, N. C, June 17, 1949, H. Townes 

 (Townes). d\ Fairfield Co., Ohio, June, A. E. Waller (Townes). 

 29, Colorado Co., Tex., April 7 and 21, 1922, Mrs. Grace Wiley 

 (Lawrence and Townes). 9, reared from cocoon found on live oak 

 bark, Victoria, Tex., June 1, 1915, J. D. Mitchell (Washington). 9, 

 Hunt Co., Tex., June 11, 1939 (Townes). rfl, 9, Texas, Belfrage 



