ART. 7 NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA MUESEBECK 17 



sheaths not exserted. Black; antennae entirely black; tegulae yel- 

 low; wing-bases brown; all coxae black; remainder of legs yellow 

 except extreme apex of posterior femora above, apex of posterior 

 tibiae, and the posterior tarsi, which are dusky; wings hyaline, the 

 stigma and veins brown; abdomen more or less yellowish at base 

 beneath. 



Cocoons. — Bright buff in color, gregarious but not embedded in 

 a mass of loose silk. 



Type.— Cd^i. No. 28054, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Hampden, Me. 



Host. — Lycia cognataria Guenee. 



Described from 16 female specimens reared August 6, 1923, from 

 larva of the above-named host, by J. V. Schaffner, jr., under Gipsy 

 Moth Laboratory No. 12199 J 1. The type and 12 paratypes have 

 been deposited in the United States National Museum ; the 3 remain- 

 ing paratypes are at the gipsy moth laboratory. 



MICROGASTER ZONARIA Say 



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

 Microffaster cinctus Provancher, Natural Canad., vol. 12, 1881, p. 196; 



Faun. Canad. Hymen., 1883, p. 529 ; Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1886, 



p. 139. 

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

 Apanteles cinctus Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 504. 



The second cubital ceil in this species is so small that it is easily 

 overlooked. This accounts for Provancher's placing cinctus in 

 Apanteles. His type is a perfectly normal female of the striking 

 zonaria Say. 



MICROGASTER MELLIGASTER Provancher 



Microgaster melligaster Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1886, 



p. 143. 

 Microgaster ru'bricoxus Provancher, Addit. faun. Canad. Hymen., 1888, 



p. 386. 

 Microgaster rudricoxa Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 61, 1922, p. 33. 

 Microgaster melligaster Muesebeck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 61, 1922, 



p. 33. 



The type of rubricoxa is clearly a male of melligaster, which was 

 described from a female specimen. 



MICROGASTER SCOPELOSOMAE, new species 



Most similar to contptaiime Viereck, but differs especially in the 

 much more coarsely sculptured face, the finer sculpture of the basal 

 abdominal tergites and the shorter female antennae. 



Female. — Length 2.8 mm. Face at base of clypeus nearly twice 

 as broad as long, and together with the clypeus, coarsely confluently 



