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Described from 20 female and 2 male specimens reared from a 

 single larva of the above host, July 3, 1917, by R. T. Webber, under 

 Gipsy Moth Laboratory No. 12155 C 3. Five of the paratypes are 

 at the gipsy moth laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass. The type, 

 allotype, and remaining paratypes are in the United States National 

 Museum. 



APANTELES TELEAE, new species 



Runs direct to smerlnthi in my key, but can be at once separated 

 from that species by the longer, more slender abdomen and by the 

 first and second segments combined being decidedly shorter than 

 the remainder of the abdomen, also by the distinctly smoother, more 

 shining propodeum. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Face broader at base of clypeus than 

 long, faintly punctuate, shining; frons, vertex and temples smooth 

 and shining; temples bulging very slightly behind the eyes; ocell- 

 ocular line distinctly a little longer than postocellar line; antennae 

 about as long as the body; mesoscutum finely punctate, shining; 

 scutellum very faintly, indistinctly punctate and strongly shining; 

 propodeum mostly smooth and polished with only a few irregular 

 transverse rugae near the middle; stigma not more than twice as 

 long as broad; radius arising exactly from middle of stigma, and 

 slightly longer than intercubitus ; posterior coxae not extending be- 

 yond the middle of the abdomen, smooth and shining ; spurs of pos- 

 terior tibiae subequal in length and not more than half as long as 

 the metatarsus; abdomen slightly longer than the thorax, slender; 

 chitinized plate of first tergite broadening slightly behind, mostly 

 smooth and shining, with only a few punctures apically; sculptured 

 area of second tergite transverse, more than twice as broad as long, 

 defined laterally by curved grooves, distinctly broader at apex than 

 at base, and mostly smooth and shining, with only a little faint 

 sculpturing; third tergite hardly twice as broad as long and like the 

 following tergites, smooth and polished; first and second abdominal 

 segments combined not half the length of the abdomen ; hypopygium 

 not quite attaining apex of last dorsal abdominal segment ; ovipositor 

 sheaths extending slightly beyond apex of abdomen. Black; anten- 

 nae wholly black; tegulae yellow; wings hyaline; stigma and veins 

 pale brown; coxae black or blackish, the fore and middle pairs a 

 little yellowish below; remainder of legs entirely yellow, with the 

 posterior tarsi only very faintly dusky; abdomen brownish beneath 

 toward base. 



Type.— C^^t. No. 28051, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — ^^Vaterford, Pa. 



Host. — Telea polyplievms Cramer. 



Described from two female specimens reared by A. B. Champlain 

 from a larva of the above host; 22 cocoons were obtained in Sep- 

 tember, but only two of these produced adults the following spring. 



