Aur. 10 AN'ASPS OF THE SUBFAMILY BEACONINAE MUESEBECK 67 



prominence between antennae extending nearly to tlie median ocellus; 

 antennae long and slender, usually 36 to 41 segmented; temples 

 gradually receding; head only slightly hollowed out l)ehind, as seen 

 from above; mesoscutum elongate; parapsidal furrows sharply im- 

 pressed and meeting only a short distance before the posterior margin 

 of scutum, more or less foveolate; furrow in front of scutellum dis- 

 tinctly pitted; scutellum convex, polished; propodeum completely 

 strongly rugose, without carinae, its dorsal face long, not distinctly 

 rounded antero-posteriorl}"; propleura smooth except anteriorly where 

 it is finely rugulose; mesopleura furrow impressed, foveolate; meta- 

 pleura finely granular, rugose below; posterior coxae very delicately 

 granular and subopaque; second cubital cell triangular, very small, 

 mirrow, subsessile, or with a short petiole; medius very weakly devel- 

 oped; first abscissa of mediella very slightly shorter than the second; 

 first abdominal tergite longer than broad at aj^ex, finely evenly gran- 

 ular, sometimes also a little wrinkled basally; second tergite broader 

 than long, finely evenly granular ; the third sometimes weakly gran- 

 ular toward base; remainder polished; ovipositor sheaths about as 

 long as the thorax and a])domen combined. Head ])lack, with the 

 labrum and more or less of clypeus red; antennae usually black; 

 tliorax entirely black, very rarely with a small reddish spot on mcta- 

 pleura; legs, including all coxae entirely, bright reddish yellow, with 

 the extreme apex of hind femora and the middle and posterior tai-si 

 blacldsh; hind tibiae yellowish, with an amiulus near base, and the 

 apex broadly, black; wings hyaline or subhyaline; first, second, and 

 often more or less of third tergites reddish testaceous, the fii'st tergite 

 I'arely a little int'uscated basally ; most of third and following tergites 

 usually entirely black, but very rarely mostly reddish. Length, 

 usually 4 to 6.5 mm. 



Tliis is a very common species and a large amount of material has 

 been studied in the course of the preparation of the above notes. 

 Tliis includes the type of agilis, which is from Massachusetts; many 

 specimens in the National Museum, including several series reared 

 in the Bureau of Entomology, from Pyrausta nuhilaUs Huebner, the 

 Em'opean Corn Borer, collected at Lyim, Saugus, Mehose, Wakefield, 

 and Watertown, Massachusetts, under Webster No. 16490; fom* 

 specimens reared from Archips rUeyana Grote, at Victoria, Missom-i, 

 under Bureau of Entomology No. 234; two from Aristotelia ahscond- 

 itella Walker, Nashville, Tennessee, and Fordsville, Kentucky; two 

 from E'pihlema mi/iwifanaKearfott, Whitesbog, Virginia, under Quaint- 

 ance No. 12769; and collected specimens from Pennsylvania, District 

 of Columbia, and New Jersey; and a large number of retired specimens 

 at the Gipsy Moth Laboratory, Mehose Highlands, Massachusetts^ 

 comprising series from ArcMps fervidana Clemens and A. cerasivorana 



