AKT. S 2fOTES ON PARASITIC HYME2fOPTEEA GAHAN ' 11 



Family SCELIONIDAE 



TELENOMUS SPHINGIS Ashmead 



Teleas spMngis Ashmead, Bull. 14, Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric, 1S87, p. 18. 

 Telenomus spMngis Ashmead, Bull. 45, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 155. 

 Telenomus monilicornis Ashmead, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool., vol. 25, 

 1894, p. 203 (new synonymy). 



I can see no difference between the types of spMngis which were 

 reared from eggs of Phlegethontius sexta Johanssen at Jacksonville, 

 Fla., and the type of monilicornis Ashmead which is a single male 

 collected on the island of St. Vincent, 



The National collection contains in addition to the types a series 

 of 8 specimens reared from P. sexta at Clarksville, Tenn., by A. C. 

 Morgan ; 31 specimens reared from eggs of the same moth at Gurabo, 

 Porto Eico, by W. V- Tower (identified by J. C. Crawford as T. 

 momlicoimis) ; and 2 specimens reared from eggs of P. sexta by G. 

 Eusso in the Dominican Kepublic. 



TELENOMUS CONNECTANS Ashmead 



A single female received from G. Eusso, Moca, Dominican Eepub- 

 lic, and said to have been reared from the egg of Phlegethontius 

 seosta Johanssen has been identified as Telenomus connectans. This 

 appears to be the first host record for this parasite, which was origi- 

 nally described from the island of St. Vincent.® 



Family BETHYLIDAE 



CEPHALONOMIA TARSALIS (Ashmead) 



Ateleopterus tarsalis Ashmead, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 45, 1893, p. 45 ; 



female, male. 

 Neoscleroderma tarsale Kieffer, in Wytsman's Gen. Ins., 1908, fasc. 76, p. 41. 

 Neo'scleroderma tarsale Kieffek, Das Tierreich, 1914, vol. 41, p. 270. 



Cephalonomia Mefferi Fours, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 1920, vol. 22, p. 71 

 (new synonymy). 



J. J. Kieffer placed Ateleopterus tarsalis Ashmead in Neosclero- 

 iermu Kieffer along with Ateleopter-us virglniense Ashmead and 

 named the latter species as type of the genus. The types of both 

 species have been examined by the writer and found to be not con- 

 generic. The antennae of tarsalis are 12- jointed in both sexes and 

 the species belongs in Cephalonomia Westwood. The antennae of 

 virginiense are 13-jointed, and the genus Neoscleroderma will there- 

 fore stand. 



^ Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 792. 



