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Biological data associated with these specimens include notes that 

 three of the collections were made on windows of buildings, one collec- 

 tion "at light" and one "from wheat stack." Dates of collection 

 range throughout the warm part of the season, and since this is a 

 largely indoor species it seems useless to give them in detail. Cresson's 

 types of Exochus laevis seem to be the oldest specimens known from 

 North America. The oldest with an actual date on the pin label is 

 one from Muskoka, Ont., July 1888, collected by E. P. Van Duzee. 



This is a cosmopolitan species which is collected usually on the 

 windows of buildings. Presumably it parasitizes some stored product 

 lepidopteran. Females are much commoner than males. 



2. Hypsicera curvator (Fabricius), new combination 



Figure 182,f 



Ichneumon curvator Fabricius, 1793, Entomologia systematica . . ., vol. 2, p. 



177; ?. Type: 9 , Denmark (Copenhagen). 

 Ichneumon mansuetor Gravenhorst, 1807, Vergleichende Uebersicht des linneischen 



und einiger neuern zoologischen Systeme . . . , p. 254; new synonyny. 



Types: 9 9 , no locality given but probably from central Europe (Wroclaw); 



p. 254; new synonymy. 

 Hyperacmus tineae Riley, 1890, Insect life, vol. 2, p. 213; 9- Types: 9 9, 



Adrian, Mich. (Washington). 

 Hyperacmus ovatus Davis, 1897, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 24, p. 218; 9 • 



Lectotype: 9, Connecticut (Philadelphia). 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Front wing 3.0 to 3.8 mm. long; head about 0.86 as long 

 as high; first flagellar segment about 0.8 as long as wide, about 0.9 

 as long as second segment; costula present, strong; outer side of 

 second lateral area of propodeum about 1.6 as long as inner side; 

 propodeal spiracle circular; tarsal claws apparently simple; second 

 abcissa of radius about 1.0 as long as intercubitus ; first tergite about 



Figures 99, 100.— Localities: 99 (left), Hypsicera curvator; 100 (right), H. Julviceps. 



