AKT. 2. ICHNEUMON-FLY GENUS METEORUS MUESEBECK. 17 



Distribution. — Missouri, California, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Kansas, Massachusetts. 

 These are the States from which I have seen material; the species 

 undoubtedly will be found over the entire country. 



Hosts. — {Acrohasis) Mineola juglandis heBsiTon (Riley); Acrohasis 

 hetulella Hulst; A. caryivorella Ragonot; Mineola indigenella Zeller; 

 Tetralopha subcanalis Walker; Dioryctria xaritTiaenohares Dyar; 

 Tetralopha platanella Clemens; Acrohasis caryae Grote (?); "leaf 

 roller on honey locust"; "leaf roller on sweet fern"; and "leaf tyer 

 on sweet gum." M. indagator has also been recorded by Riley and 

 Howard ^ from Evergestis rimosalis Guenee, by Howard ® from Loxostege 

 sticticalis Linnaeus, and by Chittenden ^ from Peridroma saucia Hiib- 

 ner. The last record is undoubtedly incorrect; very probably the 

 parasite in this case was M. vulgaris. It is also quite possible that 

 the records from Evergestis and Loxostege concerned M. loxostegei 

 rather than indagator. 



The above notes and host and locality records are based on a con- 

 siderable amount of material in the United States National Museum 

 and in the collection of the gypsy-moth parasite laboratory. 



8. METEORUS LOXOSTEGEI Viereck. 



Meteorus loxostegei Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 1911, p. 401, 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



As noted in the discussion under indagator, these two species are 

 very similar; but they are certainly distinct and can be separated by 

 the characters mentioned in the key and in the discussion just 

 referred to. 



Distribution. — The following States were represented by the ma- 

 terial which I have seen: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Mary- 

 land, Massachusetts. 



Hosts. — Loxostege sticticalis Linnaeus (Viereck) ; Pyrausta futilalis 

 Lederer; and P. nubilalis Hiibner. 



Besides the type, there are seven other specimens in the United 

 States National Museum from the type locality. Rocky Ford, Colo- 

 rado, and from the same host as the type; also a large series reared 

 from Pyrausta futilalis at College Park, Maryland, by Mr. A. B. 

 Gahan. Six specimens reared from L. sticticalis in Nebraska, one 

 specimen from Maxwell, New Mexico, and one labeled as reared from 

 a "Nelumbians pyralid," but bearing no locality data, are likewise 

 in this collection. The Boston Society of Natural History has one 

 specimen taken at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. I have also seen 

 two specimens reared from larvae of the introduced corn borer, 

 Pyrausta nubilalis, collected at Watertown, Massachusetts. 



1 1nsect Life, vol. 3, 1890, p. 58. 



« Idem, vol. 6, 1894, p. 371. 



» Bull. 29, u. s., U. S. Bur. Ent., p.5i. 



