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  PROCEEDIXOS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  ''May 
  14, 
  1911, 
  R. 
  A. 
  Cushman, 
  collector." 
  

   Paratopotypes 
  collected 
  May 
  15 
  and 
  17 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  show 
  varia- 
  

   tion 
  in 
  color 
  and 
  in 
  abdominal 
  sculpture, 
  some 
  having 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   pleurae 
  reddish 
  and 
  the 
  hmd 
  trochanters 
  blackish, 
  wliile 
  others 
  have 
  

   the 
  transverse 
  furrows 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  more 
  conspicuously 
  longi- 
  

   tudinally 
  striate 
  than 
  the 
  type. 
  A 
  paratype 
  labeled 
  "Stafford, 
  

   Conn., 
  24, 
  August, 
  1905, 
  on 
  flowers 
  of 
  goldenrod, 
  W. 
  E. 
  Britton, 
  

   collector," 
  has 
  the 
  hind 
  coxae 
  mostly 
  blacldsh. 
  

  

  MACROCENTRUS 
  (AMICROPLUS) 
  PLESIUS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Type-locality. 
  — 
  Chapel 
  Hill, 
  Tennessee. 
  

  

  Alloty 
  pe-locality 
  .■ 
  — 
  Vienna, 
  Vu"ginia. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  C&t. 
  No. 
  15277, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  3 
  mm.; 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  M. 
  (A.) 
  crambivorus 
  

   Viereck, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  separated 
  by 
  the 
  transversely 
  striate 
  

   propodeum 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  more 
  slender 
  first, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  

   which 
  is 
  apparently 
  at 
  least 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  wide 
  at 
  apex, 
  

   rounded 
  off 
  and 
  not 
  at 
  all 
  subbicarinate 
  longitudinally. 
  

  

  Allotype. 
  — 
  Differs 
  from 
  if. 
  {A.) 
  crambivorus 
  Viereck 
  chiefly 
  in 
  the 
  

   first, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  not 
  being 
  subbicarinate 
  longitudi- 
  

   nally 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  stramineous 
  metapleurse. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "Webster 
  No. 
  8254, 
  Chapel 
  Hill, 
  Tenn., 
  G. 
  G. 
  AinsUe, 
  col- 
  

   lector, 
  and 
  Webster 
  No. 
  9253, 
  Vienna, 
  Va., 
  R. 
  A. 
  Cushman, 
  collector, 
  

   reared 
  from 
  Cramlus." 
  

  

  The 
  atopoparatypes 
  of 
  M. 
  (A.) 
  crambivorus 
  Viereck, 
  with 
  the 
  

   exception 
  of 
  those 
  labeled 
  "from 
  unknown 
  pupa, 
  August 
  IS," 
  all 
  

   belong 
  to 
  this 
  species 
  which 
  may 
  prove 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  southern 
  race 
  of 
  the 
  

   former. 
  

  

  APANTELES 
  (APANTELES) 
  LASPEYRESI^, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Type-locality. 
  — 
  National 
  Forest, 
  Shasta, 
  California. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  15278, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  3.5 
  mm.; 
  related^ 
  to 
  A. 
  {A) 
  aristotelise 
  Viereck, 
  

   from 
  which 
  it 
  differs 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  second 
  jomts 
  of 
  the 
  

   maxillary 
  palpi 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  labial 
  palpi 
  being 
  blackish, 
  in 
  the 
  mostly 
  

   brownish 
  stramineous, 
  fore 
  femora, 
  in 
  the 
  brownish 
  stramineous 
  tip 
  

   of 
  the 
  mid 
  femora, 
  in 
  the 
  mostly 
  brownish 
  stramuieous 
  mid 
  tibiie 
  

   and 
  tarsi, 
  m 
  the 
  wings 
  being 
  brownish 
  with 
  blackish 
  veins 
  and 
  stigma, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  however 
  stramineous 
  at 
  base; 
  in 
  the 
  propodeum 
  being 
  

   finely 
  sculptured 
  and 
  dull 
  with 
  a 
  poorly 
  defined 
  areola; 
  in 
  the 
  first, 
  

   dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  plate 
  which 
  is 
  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  and 
  one-half 
  

   times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  wide 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  faint 
  median 
  longitudinal 
  

   depression 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  half, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  second, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  

   plate 
  bemg 
  uniformly 
  sculptured 
  by 
  rather 
  radiating 
  striae. 
  

  

  Allotype. 
  — 
  Essentially 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  tyj)e. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "Hopk. 
  U. 
  S. 
  No. 
  11414a, 
  reared 
  May 
  11-27, 
  1912, 
  from 
  

   Laspeyresia 
  torenta 
  Grote 
  on 
  Pinus 
  ponderosa, 
  J. 
  M. 
  Miller, 
  collector." 
  

  

  