No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 23I 



*B. (Agathis) sassacus Viereck (new species). 

 Visits flowers of goldenrod. Type locality: Stafford, 24 

 August, 1905 (W. E. B.). Another locality: Westbrook, 30 

 August, 1904 (H. L. V.). 



*B. (A.) solidaginis Viereck (new species). 

 Type locality : Stafford, 24 August, 1905, on flowers of gold- 

 enrod (W. E. B.). 



*B. (A.) branfordensis Viereck (new species). 

 Type locality: Branford, 16 September, 1904 (H. W. W.). 

 B. (Bracon) haematodes Brulle. 

 B. (B.) tibiator Provancher. 

 B. (B.) liberator Brulle. 



B. (B.) semirubra Brulle. 



East Hartford, 9 August, 1904 (P. L. B.). 



Ascogaster Wesmael. 

 Key to Species. 



1. First discoidal cell of fore wings sessile 2 



First discoidal cell of front wings petiolate 3 



2. Black; antennae black at apex, red at base; wings hyaline, 



more or less obscure in middle; legs red, with apex of hind 

 femora, apex of hind tibiae and tarsi black; abdomen with 

 a reddish mark at base above, venter reddish to stramine- 

 ous. Length 4 mm. provancheri 



3. Black; antennae and legs mostly yellow; mouth stramineous, 



clypeus apically reddish, palpi whitish; wings transparent, 

 tinted with brown, stigma and veins brown; hind femora 

 and tibiae with apical third of former and apical half of 



latter brown, hind tarsi brown. Length 3.5 mm 



provancheri var. pallidicornis 

 Black; antennae mostly brown, scape stramineous; legs mostly 

 black; mandibles mostly stramineous, clypeus black; palpi 

 blackish; propodeum with four prominent angular projec- 

 tions; wings transparent tinged with brown carpocapsae 



A. provancheri Dalla Torre. 



*A. provancheri var. pallidicornis Viereck (new variety). 

 Type locality: Connecticut. Probably collected at Farming- 

 ton by Norton. 



A. carpocapsae (Viereck). 

 Parasitic on the codling moth {Carpocapsa pomonella). 



