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Type.—V.S.'NM. no. 49785. 



Type locality. — Louisiana. 



Remarks. — Described from 15 females, of which the type and 10 

 paratypes are in the United States National Museum. The tj'^pe is 

 labeled "Loui. 5668, collection C F. Baker." One paratype in the 

 same museum bears Quaintance no. 11779 (Aug.); one is from Oak- 

 land, Md. (July); one from Marquette, Mich. (July); one from St. 

 Louis, Mo. (July); tliree from Nebraska; two from the ''Codling Moth 

 Survey 1930" (May), Yakima, Wash., L. Brown, collector, and one 

 from the same locality, "reared from codling moth" (Sept.), E. J. 

 Newcomer, collector. Of the remaining four, one from Falls Church, 

 Va. (Sept.), is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and three 

 from Mount Washington, N. H., from the collection of Mrs. A. T. 

 Slosson, no. 26226, in the American Museum of Natural History. 



The specimen said to have been reared from the codling moth was 

 probably hyperparasitic. 



The status of this variety may possibly have to be changed with 

 the receipt of additional material for study. 



PERILAMPUS STYGICUS Provancher 



Perilampus stygicus Provancher, Additions et corrections au volume ii de la 

 Faune entomologique du Canada traitant des Hymenopt^res, p. 406, 1888. 



Female. — Length about 1.75-2.25 mm. Head: Frons meeting 

 vertex in more or less of a curve, without a carina, except some- 

 times with a faint one extending for a short distance on the upper 

 part; front and face practically smooth; hyperclypeal area often as 

 long as clypeus; cheeks straight or nearly straight; head in front 

 view somewhat transverse and sometimes sub triangular; eyes not 

 quite reaching level of base of clypeus. 



Thorax: Area along inner margin of parapsides smooth or but 

 finely sculptured; umbilicate punctures on mesoscutum and scutel- 

 lum more or less angulated, interspaces thin although rarely slightly 

 thickened on scutellum medially; whole scutellum and mesoscutum 

 in part with the interspaces finely reticulately sculptured; anterior 

 edge of pronotoprepectal area usually depressed, the punctate portion 

 actually or seemingly occupying distinctly less than half the area 

 between anterior edge of pronotum and tegula of wing, usually 

 appearing as a narrow anterior border; axilla with a triangular or 

 roughly triangular extension as wide as or wider than long on side 

 of scutellum extending to or above middle of axilla, face of axilla slop- 

 ing more or less toward base of extension and not depressed or exca- 

 vated above base of extension ; basal shallow furrows on underside of 

 apex of scutellum not turning caudad medially or turning only 

 slightly and meeting on the median line to form a single more or less 

 curved furrow or an obtuse angle; neck of propodeum finely sculp- 



