No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 39 



coxae, except posterior tibiae and tarsi, yellow; abdomen 



reddish beyond the first segment. Length lo mm 



ocellatus 

 Median fovea open and elongate; ocellar basin not sharply 

 defined; body black, with apex of the clypeus, genae, three 

 spots about ocelli, a line from the inner orbits to the eyes, 

 a spot on the vertical furrows, apical third of the antennae, 

 tegulae, scutellum, legs below coxae, except the posterior 

 tibiae, pale yellow; abdomen rufous beyond the first seg- 

 ment. Length 7.75 mm rubi 



■^P, semicinctus (Norton). Lyda semicincta Norton. 

 P. ocreatus (Say). Lyda ocreata Say. Howard, Insect 

 Book, pi. xiv, Figs. 4 and 9. Connecticut (Norton) ; New 

 Haven, 21 May, 1910 (A. B. C). Larva a solitary feeder on 

 Corylus. 



"P. transversus MacGillivray. 



^P. rufocinctus (Cresson). Lyda rufochicta Cresson. 



*P. persicus MacGillivray, Yalesville, Meriden, Walling- 

 ford, Middlefield, Durham, North Haven, New Haven, Hamden, 

 Cheshire, Farmington (B. H. W.) ; Yalesville, June (W. E. B.). 

 Larva feeds on peach. 



For a full account of this insect and its appearance as a pest, 

 see 7th Report State Entomologist, in Report for 1907-8 of Con- 

 necticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, p. 285. 



*P. dentatus MacGillivray. Hamden, 24 May, 1910, New 

 Haven, 30 May, 1911 (B. H. W.) ; Wallingford, 8 June, 1911 

 (B. H. W. and D. J. Caffrey). Larva feeds on blackberry. See 

 Report of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station for 19 12, 

 p. 236. 



°P. ocellatus Rohwer. 



■^P. rubi Rohwer. Larva feeds on blackberr}^ 



Anoplolyda Costa. 



Key to Species. 



1. Pleurae with a large oblique pale stripe 2 



Pleurae black 4 



2. Abdom.en rufous at least beyond first segment 3 



Abdomen black, except a rufous spot on the first and the 



most of the second and third segments of the tergum; 



