580 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.43. 



METEORUS ARCHIPSIDIS, new species. 



Type-locality. — Bethany Center, Genesee County, New York. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15011, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — Length 4 mm. ; stramineous; greatest diameter of lateral 

 ocellus a little more than half as long as the shortest distance between 

 the same and nearest eye margin; scape externally, pedicel and flagel 

 mostly brownish or blackish; interocellar area blackish; prescutum 

 anteriorly, parapsides or scapulae and axillae more or less brownish; 

 wings almost colorless, tinged with brown, veins stramineous with a 

 blackish tinge, stigma mostly blackish, pale only at base, basal tliird 

 mostly stramineous; onychii mostly brownish, hind tibiae and hind 

 metatarsi Avith brownish tips, second and third tarsal joints of 

 hind legs mostly brownish, rest of legs like the face and palpi very 

 pale stramineous; metanotum blackish; propodeum blackish, with- 

 out a basal transverse carina, with a complete petiolarea and a well 

 defined median longitudinal carina; first dorsal segment blackish to 

 brownish, with a fossa on each side near the postpetiole, the post- 

 petiole with longitudinal striae except down the middle, the striae 

 converging posteriorly, second segment and basal half of third seg- 

 ment yellowish, rest of abdomen reddish except for a blackish, median, 

 longitudinal stain; ovipositor when completely exserted apparently a 

 little longer than the abdomen. 



Labeled, "Bred from Archips argyrospila, June 24 1911, Braucher 

 No. 122." 



NOSERUS POMIFOLIELLAE (Aslunead). 

 Bracon pomi/olielloe Ashmead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, 1888, p. 620. 

 APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) HARNEDI, new species. 



Type-locality. — ^McNeill, Mississippi. 



Type.— C&t. No. 15013, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm.; related to A. (P.) parorgyise, Ashmead, 

 with which it agrees in having the vertical axis of the thorax as long 

 as the transverse axis or longer, in the head being as broad or broader 

 than long, in the stramineous tegidae, rather dull outer face of hind 

 coxae, the latter being mostly pale reddish or stramineous, the mostly 

 impunctate scutel, the punctures of which are rather large, in the 

 pleuras not being separated from the mesostemum by a carinate fold, 

 in the propodeum having a median longitudinal carina, in the first, 

 dorsal, abdominal plate being wider at apex than the second, dorsal, 

 abdominal plate is long down the middle or than the former is wide 

 at base and mostly rugose or rugulose, in the second, dorsal, abdom- 

 inal plate being trapezoidal and in the third, dorsal, abdominal segment 

 being sculptured at base, but differs chiefly in the black scape and 

 pedicel, in the blackish labrum and mandibles, in the blackish hind 



