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Male. — Like the female except for the usual sexual differences. 



Cocoons. — Pale yellow, gregarious, but not embedded in loose silk. 



Type.— Csit. No. 28046, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Manchester, Conn. 



Host. — G crura., species. 



Described from eight females and three males reared from a larva 

 of an undetermined species of G crura., by J. V. Schaffner, jr., under 

 Gipsy Moth Laboratory No. 12164 J 98. The adults emerged August 

 21, 1923. At the gipsy moth laboratory there is another series of 

 specimens of this sjDecies, under Gipsy Moth Laboratory No. 11707 

 K 25, likewise reared from an unidentified species of G crura., which 

 was taken in Somerville, N. J., by M. T. Smulyan. 



APANTELES LYCIAE, new species 



Exceedingly similar to ccrurac, described above, but differs in 

 having the first and second abdominal tergites more strongly sculp- 

 tured, and in the more distinctly punctate scutellum. Reared mate- 

 rial of the two species can be even more readily separated by the 

 cocoons. 



Female. — Length, 2.3 mm. Face scarcely broader at base of 

 clypeus than long, distinctly finely punctate ; f rons and vertex smooth 

 and polished; postocellar line about equal to ocell-ocular line; 

 antennae about as long as the body, the flagellar segments gradually 

 decreasing in length toward the apex; mesoscutum evenly closely 

 punctate; scutellum moderately large, convex, distinctly punctate; 

 propodeum rugulose, usually with a faint, more or less complete, 

 median longitudinal carina; mesopleura finely punctate anteriorly, 

 polished posteriorly ; stigma more than twice as long as broad ; radius 

 arising a little beyond middle of stigma and not so distinctly tending 

 outwardly before joining intercubitus, as in cerurae., and only slightly 

 longer than intercubitus; nervulus distinctly shorter than first 

 abscissa of discoideus; posterior coxae large, more than half as long 

 as the abdomen, smooth and shining; inner spur of middle tibiae 

 exceptionally long, being considerably longer than metatarsus of 

 middle legs; outer spur of posterior tibiae slightly more, the inner 

 spur much more than half the length of posterior metatarsus; abdo- 

 men robust, a little shorter than thorax ; first tergite large, broaden- 

 ing gradually from base to apex, polished at base, closely punctate 

 apically; lateral membranous margins of this tergite not distinct 

 except at extreme apex ; second tergite transverse, nearly three times 

 as broad as long, entirely finely ruguloso-punctate, and its posterior 

 margin straight, so that the tergite is no longer medially than at 

 the sides; third tergite a little more than twice as broad as long, 

 and together with the following tergites, smooth and polished; 

 hypopygidium not surpassing apex of last dorsal segment ; ovipositor 



