294 Kansas Academy of Science. 



Microdus castaneicinctus Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; August (type) . Addition 

 to the Kansas list, 

 pimploides Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; August (type and homo-topo- 

 type); September (homo-topotype). Addition to the Kansas 

 list. 

 wichitaensis Vr. Kansas, Wichita; September, 1895, in vineyard 

 (type and homo-topotype). Addition to the Kansas list. 

 Cardiochiles explorator Say. Colorado, Colorado Springs; August. 

 Apanteles congregatus Say. Kansas, Lawrence; June, bred from unknown 

 host on blade of grass. New to the Kansas list, 

 congregatus Say, var. hemileucse Riley. Kansas, Lawrence; No- 

 vember, bred from cocoon mass on willow leaf. New to the 

 Kansas list, 

 ensiger Say. Kansas, Lawrence; July, twilight. New to the 



Kansas list, 

 xylina Say. Kansas, Lawrence; August. New to the Kansas 

 list. 

 Pseudapanteles bisstigmata Say. Kansas, Lawrence; August. New to the 



Kansas list. 

 Microgaster tuckeri Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; June (type). Addition to the 



Kansas list. 

 Microplitis croceipes Cr. Kansas, Wichita ; September, 1895, swept from 



peanut vines. New to the Kansas list. 

 Biosteres indotatus Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; August (type and homo-topo- 



types). Addition to the Kansas list. 

 Diachasma appalachicola Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; July (type). Addition 

 to the Kansas list, 

 secunda Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; July (type). Addition to the 

 Kansas list. 

 Opius aberrans Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; August (type, paratype and homo- 

 topotypes). Addition to the Kansas list. 

 basiniger Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; July (type); June, twilight (meta- 



type). Addition to the Kansas list. 

 luteiceps Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; August (type). Addition to the 



Kansas list, 

 nigrocastaneus Vr. Kansas, Lawrence; July (type). August, twi- 

 light (metatype) ; July (homo-topotype, having dorsum of thorax 

 wholly brownish between parapsidal grooves). Addition to the 

 Kansas list. 

 Iphiaulax rugator Say. Kansas, Lawrence; August. New to the Kansas 



list. 

 Melanobracon ulmicola Vr. Kansas, Lawrence. 



Notes concerning the capture of this species were published in Trans. 

 Kan. Acad. Sci., vol. XXL pt. I, p. 160, to this effect: "Males and 

 females flying about and alighting on bark of infested portions of elm 

 tree later cut into sections for breeding purposes, September 26, 1904, 

 the female probing with the ovipositor into the cracks of the bark and 

 holes of Magdalis armicollis Say, whose larvse abounded beneath the 

 bark; other specimens emerged during the following May from sec- 

 tions of the tree kept in breeding-cage. Regarding the naming of 

 these parasites, Mr. H. L. Viereck, to whom a pair of specimens was 



