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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.44. 
  

  

  Alloneotype. 
  — 
  Essentially 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  neotype. 
  Some 
  specimens 
  in 
  

   their 
  stramineous 
  color 
  show 
  a 
  relationship 
  to 
  A. 
  (P.) 
  hemilcucx 
  

   Riley. 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  also 
  related 
  to 
  A. 
  (P.) 
  scMzurse 
  Ashmead. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "bred 
  from 
  Ceratomia 
  catalpae, 
  Sept. 
  18, 
  1912, 
  E. 
  B. 
  

   Mason, 
  collector." 
  

  

  APANTELES 
  (PROTAPANTELES) 
  EMPRETI^, 
  new 
  species. 
  

   Apanteles 
  empretise 
  Ashmead, 
  Ms. 
  Smith's. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  J. 
  (1899), 
  1900. 
  

  

  Type-locality. 
  — 
  Washington, 
  District 
  of 
  Columbia. 
  

  

  Type.— 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  12756, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  2 
  mm. 
  Related 
  to 
  A. 
  (P.) 
  flslcei 
  Viereck, 
  but 
  

   readily 
  distinguished 
  from 
  that 
  species 
  by 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  

   characters. 
  Subopaque, 
  sericeous; 
  head 
  above 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining, 
  

   apparently 
  impunctate, 
  face 
  finely 
  punctured, 
  without 
  a 
  median 
  

   welt, 
  labrum, 
  mandibles, 
  scape 
  and 
  pedicel 
  stramineous, 
  palpi 
  whitish, 
  

   flagel 
  brownish 
  ; 
  thorax 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  thescutel, 
  however, 
  sparsely 
  

   punctured 
  with 
  rather 
  large 
  punctures, 
  the 
  interstices 
  polished, 
  

   mesopleurse 
  hardly 
  punctured, 
  wings 
  hyaline, 
  costa, 
  stigma, 
  first 
  

   abscissa 
  of 
  the 
  radius, 
  transverse 
  cubitus 
  and 
  third 
  abscissa 
  of 
  the 
  

   cubitus 
  brownish, 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  veins 
  rather 
  stramineous, 
  the 
  transverse 
  

   cubitus 
  a 
  little 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  first 
  abscissa 
  of 
  the 
  radius; 
  legs 
  and 
  

   tegulae 
  mostly 
  stramineous 
  including 
  the 
  fore 
  and 
  mid 
  coxae 
  rather 
  

   reddish 
  brown, 
  apical 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  hind 
  tibiae, 
  hind 
  metatarsus 
  and 
  

   second 
  joint 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  mostly 
  blackish; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  its 
  first 
  

   and 
  second 
  plates 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  third 
  dorsal 
  segment 
  rugulose, 
  

   black 
  except 
  the 
  membranous 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  second, 
  dorsal 
  

   segments 
  and 
  the 
  first 
  and 
  second, 
  ventral 
  segments 
  which 
  are 
  stra- 
  

   mineous; 
  ovipositor 
  hardly 
  exserted. 
  

  

  Allotype. 
  — 
  Essentially 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  type, 
  except 
  that 
  the 
  third, 
  dorsal, 
  

   abdominal 
  segment 
  is 
  mostly 
  smooth 
  and 
  polished. 
  Cocoons 
  parch- 
  

   ment 
  like, 
  separate 
  but 
  arranged 
  side 
  by 
  side 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  full- 
  

   grown 
  larva 
  of 
  the 
  host. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "No. 
  209°, 
  parasite 
  on 
  (Empretia) 
  Sihine 
  stimulea, 
  Aug. 
  

   31, 
  1888, 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  Agric." 
  

  

  One 
  female 
  paratopotype 
  has 
  the 
  third, 
  dorsal 
  segment 
  almost 
  

   entirely 
  smooth 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  allotype. 
  

  

  Paratypes 
  labeled 
  "No. 
  2837°, 
  11/4, 
  1885, 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  

   Agric. 
  and 
  Hyattsville, 
  Md. 
  Aug. 
  4, 
  1912, 
  F. 
  Knab" 
  indicate 
  that 
  the 
  

   third, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  is 
  normally 
  sculptured 
  down 
  the 
  

   middle 
  with 
  the 
  sides 
  mostly 
  smooth 
  and 
  shining. 
  The 
  new 
  cocoons 
  

   of 
  the 
  Hyattsville 
  specimens 
  are 
  rather 
  lemon 
  yellow 
  while 
  the 
  old 
  

   cocoons 
  collected 
  twenty-four 
  years 
  ago 
  are 
  brownish 
  white. 
  

  

  Paratypes 
  labeled 
  "No. 
  295°, 
  14/5, 
  1883, 
  Div. 
  Ent. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Dept. 
  

   Agric." 
  have 
  the 
  abdominal 
  plates 
  reddish 
  brown 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  

  

  