ART. 7 NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA MUESEBECK 5 



A study of the types shows conclusively that trachynotus and 

 femur-nigrum are identical. The species is known only from the 

 male sex, but appears to be common throughout northeastern United 

 States and southeastern Canada. The female may have been de- 

 scribed under another name, but if so, it must differ considerably 

 from the male. 



APANTELES CARPATUS (Say) 



Microgaster carpata Say, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, 1836, p. 263. 

 Microgaster clavatus Provancher, Natural. Canad., vol. 12, 1881, p. 196. 

 Apanteles clavatus Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1888, p. 388. 

 Apanteles carpatus Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 515. 

 Apanteles clavatus Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 517. 



The type of clavatus is in poor condition, but, in my opinion, is 

 carpatus (Say). The name clavatus then must fall as a synonym 

 of carpatus, rather than replace polychrosidis as I previously (1920) 

 suggested. 



APANTELES LATERALIS (Provancher) 



Microgaster lateralis Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1886, p. 



141. 

 Apanteles consimilis Viereck, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 177. 

 Apanteles consimilis Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 523. 

 Microgaster lateralis Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 61, 1922, p. 42. 



Although the abdomen and antennae of the type of lateralis are 

 missing, the unusual nature of the sculpturing on the propodeum 

 and the minute characteristics of the venation of the anterior wing 

 in the vicinity of the second cubital cell are strikingly in agreement 

 with those characters in consimilis; furthermore, Provancher's de- 

 scription of the abdomen agrees with abdomen of conshnilis. I am 

 convinced that the latter name must fall as a synonym of lateralis. 



APANTELES LONGICORNIS (Provancher) 



Microgaster longicomis Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1886, pp. 



139, 143. 

 Apanteles longicomis Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1888, p. 388. 

 Apanteles radiatus Ashmead, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 4, 1897, p. 162. 

 Apanteles longicomis Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 528. 

 Apanteles radiatus Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 528. 



After an examination of the type of longicomis I believe it to 

 be conspecific with radiatus; accordingly, the latter name is here 

 suppressed. 



APANTELES NEPHOPTERICIS (Packard) 



Microgaster nephoptericis Packard, Proc. Essex Inst., vol. 4, 1864, p. 122. 

 Apanteles ephestiae Baker, Ent. News, vol. 6, 1895, p. 201. 

 Apanteles ephestiae Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 516. 

 Apanteles nephoptericis Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920 

 p. 570. 



