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Hyptia nyctoides Bkadley, Trans. Amer. Ent, Soc, vol. 34, p. 159, 1908. Type : 



$ , Famiinsdale, N. J. ( Washington ) . New synonymy. 

 Hyptia prosctcthctra Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 34, p. 160, 1908. 



Type: (J , Tif ton, Ga. (Washington). New synonymy. 



Median hind corner of mesopleuru7ii with a subcircular depression^ 

 femora hlack, mesoscutum in dorsal view about 0.75 as long as wide. 



Forewing about 4.3 mm. long; punctures of frons somewhat con- 

 fluent in transverse rows, the rows separated by about 0.33 the diameter 

 of the punctures; seventh flagellar segment of male about 1.6 as 

 long as wide, of female about 1.1 as long as wide; median part of 

 pronotum as seen from above with a narrow upper face; mesoscutum 

 in dorsal view about 0.75 as long as wide, its punctures mostly adjacent 

 to one another; mesopleurum with an impression near its median 

 posterior corner, its lower swollen part with scattered moderately 

 large punctures (fig. 44, c) ; under side of hind femur with moderately 

 dense fine punctures, its impunctate area extending from about its 

 apical 0.35 to the apex; longer spur of hind tibia about 1.25 as long 

 as the shorter spur and about 0.55 as long as the hind basitarsus; first 

 tergite with moderatel}^ dense punctures and a suggestion of oblique 

 striation. 



Black or piceous. Tegula and apical part of mandible dark ferru- 

 ginous ; antenna and fore and middle legs somewhat tinged with ferru- 

 ginous. Specimens with more or less feritighious coloration, as noted 

 under the generic description, comprise about 40 percent of those 

 I have seen. 



Say's description of Brachygaster reticulata would fit Hyptia 

 fhoracica or II. harpyoides as well as the present species except for 

 his statement "petiole punctured." In both thoracica and harpyoides 

 the petiole has distinct oblique striation as well as more or less distinct 

 punctuation. 



Specimetis. — ^IVIany males and females from Florida (Crescent City, 

 near Everglade, Lakeland, Langford, Paradise Key, and St. Peters- 

 burg) ; Georgia (Bainbridge, DeWitt, Griffin, Okefenokee Swamp, 

 Thomasville, and Tifton) ; Louisiana (Opelousas) ; Maryland (Glen 

 Echo) ; Massachusetts (Holliston and Wellesley) ; Mexico (Mina- 

 titlan and Tuxtepec) ; Michigan (Midland County and Muskegon 

 County) ; New York (Farmingdale, Fishers Island, and Flatbush) ; 

 North Carolina (Southern Pines) ; Pennsylvania (near Philadel- 

 phia) ; Texas (Chisos Mountains in Brewster County) ; and Virginia 

 (Cape Henry, Falls Church, Hot Springs at Deer Lick Mountain, and 

 Virginia Beach). 



Collection records for the Northeastern United States fall in July 

 and the first half of August, except for captures at Falls Church, Va., 

 on September 4, and at Cape Henry, Va., on September 9. In Florida 



