No. 22.] HYMENOPTERA OF CONNECTICUT. 511 



E. limneriae Howard. 



Female : length 3 mm. ; mostly metallic green, including 

 coxae ; antennae black with metallic reflections ; head about as wide 

 as thorax ; front femora honey-yellow, with a dark, somewhat 

 metallic stripe on the outer side, mid femora honey-yellow, some- 

 what darker above, hind femora metallic, front and mid tibiae 

 honey-yellow, hind tibiae with somewhat more than basal half 

 fuscous, all tarsi yellowish, black at tip; abdomen about as long 

 is the thorax. 



This is a secondary parasite of the white-marked tussock 

 moth (Hemerocampa leucostigma) with (Limnerium) Campo- 

 plex (?) validus as host, also a tertiary parasite of the above moth 

 with Spilochalcis debilis as host. 



E. zeli Ashmead. 



Female : length 2.5 mm. ; head and thorax mostly dark metallic 

 green; antennae pale brown; posterior raised lobe of mesonotum 

 bluish, raised portion of mesonotum outside of parapsidal grooves, 

 pleurae, sternum, and legs including coxae, mostly rufo-piceous, 

 scutel and scapulae bright golden, mid legs with their first to 

 fourth tarsal joints provided with black teeth beneath, their spurs 

 and tarsi yellowish, upper edge of posterior tibiae blackish ; wings 

 hyaline, with two transverse brown bands; abdomen blue-black, 

 exserted portion of ovipositor as long as the body. 



Bred from the eggs of a bug, Zelus longipes. 



E. sp. 

 Bred from a Cecidomyid, Diplosis resinicola, on Pinus rigida. 



E. sp. 

 Host: Aleiodes intermedins. 



Ptinobius Ashmead. 

 This genus is referred to the Cleonymidae in Ashmead's classi- 

 fication. 



P. magnificus Ashmead. Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 Experiment Station, Bull. 3, 1888, Fig. 2. 



Female: length 6 mm.; purple and gold-green; antennae 

 mostly dark brown, with the scape yellowish brown; legs red, 

 with the single tibial spur of mid pair white ; wings hyaline, with 

 the exception of two brown blotches, one beneath the commence- 



