No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 475 



P. Sp. 



Parasitic on Ameloctonus, Aleiodes intermedins, and Habro- 

 bracon gelechicc. 



P. (Dibrachys) boucheanus Ratzeburg, U. S. Dept. Agric, 

 Div. Entomology, Bull. 5, Technical Series, 1897, p. 35, Fig. 18. 



Female : length 1 ^ -1 J 4 mm. ; head and thorax mostly 

 greenish, and as closely reticulately punctate as possible; scape 

 dark testaceous, rest of antennae dark brown ; legs, except coxae, 

 which are concolorous with thorax, mostly pale testaceous ; abdo- 

 men practically entirely blackish, with a greenish tinge, especially 

 at base above. Male flagel not twice as long as the scape ; colors 

 more constant than in female. In some female individuals part 

 of the scape is dark. The hind legs may be more or less infus- 

 cated in this species. 



This is at times a very abundant hyperparasite of the gipsy 

 moth (Porthetria dispar), the white-marked tussock moth 

 (Hemerocampa leuco stigma), the American tent caterpillar 

 (Malacosoma americana), and Hyphantria. It has been bred 

 from species of Apanteles, (Limncrium) Campoplex ( ?) validus, 

 Campoplex {Ameloctonus) fugitivus, Hemiteles, (Bathythrix) 

 pimplce, (Pimpia) 'Scambus (Iseropus) inquisitoriellius, (P.) 

 Scambns (Itoplectis) conquisitor, Meteorus communis, M. hy~ 

 phantrue, Paranomalon, Microbracon, Aleiodes intermedins, 

 Theronia fulvescens, and possibly Spilochalcis debilis. 



P. (D.) sp. 



Bred from Apanteles clisiocampce and Habrobracon gelechice. 



P. (Psychophagus) omnivorus Walker. Diglochis Foerster. 



Female: length 1-1.7 mm.; greenish aeneous, partly shining; 

 fuscous ; legs fulvous, except coxae, which are greenish, femora, 

 which are mostly fuscous yellow apically, tarsi, which are pale 

 fulvous, and the pulvilli and claws, which are fuscous ; abdomen 

 mostly aeneo-cupreous, first dorsal segment rich greenish, fulves- 

 cent, with its apex cupreous, pale. Male: greenish, shining; 

 mouth fulvous, antennae mostly fulvo-fuscous, first joint fulvous, 

 except its apex, which is dusky ; legs, except coxae, mostly yellow, 

 apex of tarsi fulvous, claws and pulvilli fuscous; tegulae and 

 veins mostly yellow; wings hyaline; abdomen maculated with 

 yellow ; otherwise practically as in the male. Color variable. 



