2898 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



and slight structural variations. Ordinarily there are no striking second- 

 ary sexual characters, the male being on the average somewhat the smaller. 

 Where not otherwise stated, the rearing has been done by myself. 



Genus APANTELES Foerster. 



Maxillary palpi 5-, labial 3-jointecl. Antennae 18-jointecl. Eyes villose. Mesopleii- 

 rae impressed with a smooth fovea. Abdomen sessile ; suturiform articulation dis- 

 tinct. Radius of fore wings subobsolete ; 2 cubital areolets, the 2d being open on the 

 outer side, and thus confused with the 3d. Spurs of the hind tibiae never much 

 shorter than 4 the metatarsus. (After Marshall.) 



Table of Species. 



Ovipositor long, as long as abdomen. 



First abdominal tergite, sculptured above megathynii. 3. 



First and second and base of third tergites sculptured edwardsii. 2. 



Ovipositor short, much shorter than abdomen. 



First and second and more or less of third tergites sculptured. 

 Third tergite sculptured only at base. 

 All coxae black (entirely). 

 All femora partially black. 



Face with distinct tubercle koebelei. 8. 



Face without tubercle limenitidis. 4. 



All femora reddish, tips of hind femora blackish. 



Face with a minute tubercle lunatus. 5. 



Face without tubercle argynnidis. 7 . 



All coxae more or less reddish. 



Face without tubercle flavicornis. 9 . 



Face with a distinct median tubercle emargluatus. 10. 



Third tergite entirely sculptured cyaniritlis. 6. 



First and second tergites, only, sculptured. 



Anterior and middle coxae yellow gloineratus. 1. 



All coxae black. 



More or less of all legs black. 



Metascutellum with a slight median longitudinal ridge theclae. 11. 



Metascntellum with no such ri<lge. 



First tergite narrow behind junoniae. 12. 



First tergite nearly as broad behind as base of second.... carduicola. 13. 

 All legs yellow except coxae. 



Punctation of second tergite confined to borders atalantae. Xi. 



Second tergite closely punctate pholisorae. 15. 



All tergites polished cassianus. 16. 



1. Apanteles glomeratus (Linn.). PI. 88, fig. 12. 



Microyaster pieridis Pack. Apanteles pieridivora Riley. 



Parasitic on Pieris rapae and P. oleracea. 



Up to the publication of my paper already alluded to, it was not defi- 

 nitely known that this species occurred in North America, and I have 

 already recorded (Ann. Eept. Entom., Dept. Agr., 1884, p. 323) the 

 success of my efl^orts to colonize the species at Washington from cocoons 

 received from Mr. G. C. Bignell of Plymouth, England, earlier attempts 



