l84 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull 



ters, base of mid and fore femora, tarsi, and sheaths of oviposi- 

 tor, black ; wings fuliginous ; costa and stigma stramineous to 

 testaceous. Lyme, 27 August, 1909 (A. B. C). 



Mirax Haliday. 

 °M. aspidiscae Ashmead. 



Male and female: length 1.3-1.5 mm; black; second flagellar 

 joint about as long as the first; scutel polished; wings with a 

 brownish yellow stigma, first submarginal and first discoidal cells 

 confluent; legs yellowish, sometimes tinged with fuscous, the 

 articulations pale; first, second and third abdominal segments 

 pale. 



This is said to be seemingly common as a parasite on the small 

 case-bearing Tineid Aspidisca splendoriferella, which occurs on 

 apple and is common on quince in this state. 



Apanteles Foerster. 



Key to Species. 



I. Thorax not depressed, greatest vertical axis apparently as 



long as or longer than greatest transverse axis; flagel, 



at least in female, with most of the joints of apical half 



longer than thick; facial line as long as or shorter than 



transfacial line ." 2 



Thorax depressed, greatest vertical axis apparently ehorter 

 than greatest transverse axis; flagel, at least in female, 

 rather moniliform, most of the joints of apical half as 

 short as or shorter than thick; head not rostriform, 

 facial line apparently as long as or shorter than trans- 

 facial line; length 1.75 mm.; black; antennae dark brown, 

 labrum and mandibles mostly brownish, palpi pale; tegulae 

 brownish; scutel almost impunctate; wings transparent, 

 tinged with brown; costa, stigma, radius, transverse cubitus 

 and second and third abscissa of cubitus brownish; remain- 

 ing veins mostly colorless, or at most paler than stigma; 

 coxae black, trochanters more or less dark, rest of legs 

 mostly stramineous, with hind femora and tibiae rather red- 

 dish with fuscous tips; mesopleurae not separated from 

 mesosternum by a carinate fold; propodeum rugulose, 

 distinctly carinate down the middle; first dorsal abdom- 

 inal plate distinctly wider at apex than at base, or than sec- 

 ond dorsal abdominal plate is long down the middle, lat- 

 ter plate not sculptured throughout, mostly shining and 

 with indefinite sculpture; third dorsal abdominal segment 



