Bui. 1028, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate I. 



APANTELES MELANOSCELUS. 



A, adult female; B, egg, dissected from female; C, egg, after 15 to 20 hours in liost; D, egg, after 

 48 hours iu host; E, first-stage larva and shriveled eggshell from which it came, 50 hours 

 after oviposition; F, first-stage larva; (?, second-stage larva; ??;, molted skin, p, caudal horn, 

 a, anal vesicle; H, third-stage larva, dissected from host; a, anal vesicle; /, third-stage larva, 

 hibernating form, dissected from cocoon; J, first-stage larval mandible; K, second-stage larval 

 mandible; L, third-stage larval mandible. All much enlarged. 



