?66 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Type locality: Baltic, 8 September, 1910. 



B. sp. 



Bred from cage containing birch leaves infested with Buccu- 

 latrix canadensisella Chambers. Emerged 16 March, 191 1 (B, H. 

 W.). This may prove to be the female of Bucculatriplex buccu- 

 latricis (Ashmead), a species reared from a Bucculatrix on oak, 

 June 10, 1886, at Washington, D. C. 



CAPITONIIDiE. 



Capitonius Brulle. 

 This is the only genus of this family found in the United 

 States. 



C. saperdae Ashmead. Promachus. Cenoccelius. 



The original description, under Promachus, is only a brief 

 mention in Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. ii, page 653, 

 1888; but the type is still in the U. S. National Museum. For 

 keys to the species of Capitonius see Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 

 xlvi, page 316, by S. A. Rohwer. 



The characters which separate saperdce from the other species 

 are as follows : 



" Abdomen rufous ; head and thorax black ; first tergite more 

 or less striate, and with an embossed area, defined by strong ca- 

 rinas which extend beyond the middle of the tergite; notauli 

 strongly foveolate." 



C. saperdcr is a parasite of Saperda Candida in elm. 



Wallingford, 22 June, 1912 (D. J. Caffrey) ; Hamden, 15 

 June, 1911 (W.E.B.). 



ichneumonidje. 



Anomalon Panzer. 

 Nototrachys Marshall. 



Agrees with Erigorgus as described in this Bulletin except in 

 the clypeus which has its anterior edge rounded. 



A. sp. 



Hamden, 28 May, 191 1 (B. H.W.). 



*Scambus (Iseropus) viduiformis Viereck. 



Male : length 7-8.5 mm. ; this may prove to be the male of 

 Pimpla vidua Walsh, the female of which alone is known. An- 

 tennae yellow to brownish beneath, blackish above, propodeum 



