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Apparently all that remains of Packard's type series of two speci- 

 mens is a fore wing mounted on a tag in the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, at Cambridge. Mass. Recently, however, Dr. T. H. 

 Frison, of the University of Illinois, sent me some specimens of an 

 Apanteles which he had reared at Champaign, 111., from Vitula 

 ed7na.nsii, the same host from which Packard's cotypes were ob- 

 tained. He suggested that his specimens might be Packard's neph- 

 opteHcis^ and a comparison with the characteristic type wing and 

 with the original description leaves no doubt that this is the case. 

 The identity of this species is thus established. Furthermore, Doc- 

 tor Frison's material, in my opinion, is identical with the cotypes 

 of Apanteles ephestiae Baker, making it necessary to suppress that 

 name. The hosts of the types of both nephoptericis and ephestiae 

 were found feeding on honeycomb ; consequently it is not surprising 

 that the should belong to the same species. 



APANTELES PTEROPHORI, new species 



A very distinct species, although somewhat resembling fwrniferanae 

 Viereck. From the latter it differs strikingly in the absence of the 

 propodeal areola, in the much smoother second abdominal tergite 

 and the much shorter ovipsitor. 



Female. — Length 2.7 mm. Head strongly transverse; face a little 

 broader at base of clypeus than long and finely punctate; frons 

 mostly polished; vertex, temples, and cheeks finely punctate and 

 opaque; postocellar line slightly longer than ocell-ocular line; 

 antennae a little shorter than the body, the three penultimate seg- 

 ments subquadrate, only a little longer than broad; mesoscutum 

 rather flat above, and very evenly finely punctate, subopaque ; scutel- 

 lum flat, very weakly sparsely punctate, shining; propodeum finely 

 rugulose, except along basal margin, without a median areola, and 

 also without a median longitudinal carina ; mesopleura punctate and 

 opaque anteriorly, polished posteriorly; stigma large, about as long 

 as metacarpus and more than twice as long as broad; radius arising 

 from middle of stigma and only very slightly longer than inter- 

 cubitus; posterior coxae scarcely extending to the middle of the 

 abdomen, mostly smooth and shining; spurs of hind tibiae of equal 

 length and less than half as long as the metatarsus; abdomen rather 

 broad, depressed, nearly as long as the thorax; chitinized plate of first 

 tergite large, broadening slightly from base of apex, finely closely 

 rugulose except medially at base ; plate of second tergite short, trans- 

 verse, more than three times as broad as long and slightly longer 

 medially than at the sides, defined laterally by longitudinal grooves 

 which are scarcely oblique; this tergite is only indistinctly sculp- 

 tured, being largely smooth and polished ; third tergite at least three 

 times as long as broad, and with the following tergites, polished; 



