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0.95 as long as wide; second tergite with uniformly spaced, moderate- 

 sized punctures, their interspaces about 2.5 their diameter. 



Black. Legs completely and uniformly ferruginous; face near 

 antennal sockets stained with ferruginous; antenna brown, paler 

 below; mandible ferruginous, infuscate basally; palpi and tegula 

 fulvous; pronotum stained with fulvous next to tegula. 



Specimens (729) : From British Columbia ("Corfield" and Robson); 

 Colorado (Boulder) ; Maine (Brunswick, Hancock, and Winthrop) ; 

 Michigan (Adrian) ; Minnesota (Olmstead Co.) ; New Brunswick 

 (Fredericton) ; New Hampshire (Mount Washington); New York 

 (Bemus Point, Catskill Mts., Ithaca, and Onteora Mt. in Greene Co.); 

 Nova Scotia (White Point Beach in Queens Co.); Ontario (Blackburn 

 in Hastings Co., Maymouth in Hastings Co., St. Thomas, and 

 Trenton) ; Oregon (Corvallis and Independence) ; Pennsylvania (Hazel- 

 ton and Wilawana) ; Quebec (Aylmer) ; Washington (Ashford and 

 Olympia); Belgium; and Germany. 



Collection dates are all in June, July, and August except for one 

 on March 12 at Trenton, Ont., and one on September 10 at Frederic- 

 ton, N. B. The types of Hyperacmus tineae from Adrian, Mich., 

 seem to be the first specimens collected in America. They are dated 

 July 17 and 18, 1885. These were reared from Tinea pellionella. 

 Four females from Fredericton, N. B. were reared from this same 

 host Sept. 10, 1932, by G. P. Walker. We have collected the species 

 on the window of a home at Ashford, Wash., infested with clothes 

 moths. One specimen from Trenton, Ont. was collected "at light." 



This is a cosmopolitan species which is sometimes collected on win- 

 dows of buildings. It parasitizes clothes moths. Only female speci- 

 mens are known. 



3. Hypsicera fulviceps, new species 



Figure 182,g 



Female type: Front wing 3.7 mm. long; head 0.84 as long as high; 

 first flagellar segment 2.3 as long as wide, 2.3 as long as second 

 flagellar segment; costula entirely absent; median longitudinal carinae 

 of propodeum exactly straight and parallel; propodeal spiracle cir- 

 cular; second abscissa of radius 1.1 as long as intercubitus; tarsal 

 claws apparently simple; first tergite 1.45 as long as wide; punctures 

 on second tergite moderately coarse, their interspaces about 1.5 their 

 diameter, on apical 0.12 of tergite the punctures smaller and sparser. 



Black. Head and its appendages fulvous, the frons yellowish baso- 

 laterally, the occiput brownish, and the flagellum brownish apically; 

 tegula yellowish; pronotum narrowly yellowish next to tegula; legs 

 fulvoferruginous. 



