﻿NEARCTIC SPECIES OF GASTERUPTIIDAE — TOWNES 117 



4. AULACUS LOVEI (Ashmead) 



Figure 16, I 



Pammegischia Lovei Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 33, p. 301, 1901. Typo: 9 , 



Palisades, N. J. (Washington). 

 Pammegischia ouellctii Bradley, Trans. Amer. Ent Soc, vol. 27, p. 329, 1901. 



Type: c?, Joliette, Quebec (Ithaca). (New synonymy.) 



Wrinkling of frons about as in figure 16, I; hind femur about 5.0 

 as long as wide. 



Female: Forewing about 5. 5 mm. long; sculpture of frons approx- 

 imately as in figure 16, /; upper part of head a little more inflated 

 than in related species; thu'd flagellar segment about 4.8 as long as 

 wide; pronotum partly punctate and partly rugose; dorsal surface of 

 propodeum moderately declivous anteriorly; second cubital coll 

 receiving the second recurrent vein usually well beyond its middle 

 (in related species received usually at or a little beyond its middle) ; 

 process on hind coxa about 1.1 as long as wide; hind femur about 

 5.0 as long as wide; abdomen about 2.3 as long as wide; ovipositor 

 sheath about 0.55 as long as the forewing. 



Coloration variable, ranging from a uniform brownish ferruginous 

 through various shades and extents of brown additions to specimens 

 which are colored as follows: Head light brown, its top and back 

 dark brown; scape light brown, the rest of the antenna dark brown; 

 thorax dark brown, blackish in some places, especially posteriorly; 

 coxae, femora, and first trochanters brown, those of the hind legs 

 darkest and of the front legs palest; second trochanters and ends of 

 femora pale; tarsi and front and middle tibiae brownish stramineous; 

 hind tibia brown, pale at the ends; abdomen fulvous, the base of 

 the first tergite black. 



Male: Similar to the female but a little more slender; the WTinkles 

 on the frons a little weaker and less extensive; the third flagellar 

 segment about 8.4 as long as wide; and the face, cheek, and most of 

 the pronotum always stramineous or pale fulvous. 



Specimens. — 3 cf, 2 9, reared from Xiphydria tibialis in Betula., 

 College Park, Md., 1942, W. H. Anderson (Washington), cf , reared 

 from host in Carpinus caroliniana, Plummers Island, Md., June 21, 

 1916, T. E. Snyder (Washington). 9, reared from Carpinus, Plum- 

 mers Island, Md., August 17, 1907 (Washington). 9, Plummers 

 Island, Md., August 29, 1912, H. L. Viereck (Washington). 2 9, 

 Monterey, Mass., July 10 and 14, 1923, C. A. Frost (Cambridge). 

 9, Anglesea, N. J. (Washington). 9, reared from host in Tilia, 

 Bear Mountain, N. Y., June 21, 1925, F. M. Schott (Dreisbach). 

 9, between Caroline and Hartford, N. Y., June 15, 1904 (Ithaca). 

 9, McLean Bogs, Tompkins County, N. Y., July 22, 1939, J. G. Fran- 

 clemont (Townes). 9, West Point, N. Y., June 7, 1925, W. Robinson 



