APPENDIX. 



Since the manuscript of this bulletin was sent to the printer 

 it has been learned that the following additional species occur in 

 Connecticut. They are included here in order to make the work 

 more complete. 



TENTHREDINOIDEA. 

 TENTHREDINID^. 



Diprion simile Hartig. Lophyrus similis. 



A robust species from Europe, the larvae feeding upon leaves 

 of various species of pine. First discovered in this country at 

 New Haven in 1914, and has apparently become established here. 

 For a full account of habits, life history, and parasites of this spe- 

 cies, see Journal of Economic Entomology, viii, 379; Report of 

 Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station for 1915. The fol- 

 lowing description of the adults was printed in Journal of Eco- 

 nomic Entomology, viii, 380: — 



"Male: Wing-spread, 14 mm. ( ^\ inch). Length, 7 mm. 

 Large pectinate antennse. Head and pronotum coarsely punc- 

 tured. Head, antennae and body, black. Cerci and tip of the last 

 abdominal segment, orange. Legs yellow, with the trochanters 

 and basal two-thirds of the femora, brownish black. 



" Female : Wing-spread, 20 mm. (little over ^ inch). Length, 

 8 mm. ( ^\ inch). Robust, head. and antennae black. Thorax 

 coarsely punctured, yellow with a large shield-shaped black spot 

 on mesothorax, extending from the interior margin and covering 

 about two-thirds of the space between the parapsidal grooves. 

 On either side are a pair of L-shaped black marks which approach 

 each other posteriorly. Posterior margin of the mesothorax, 

 postscutellum and prosternum, black. Abdomen yellow with 

 dorsal surface of 3d, 4th,' 5th, 6th, and the anterior portion of 7th 

 segment, black. Legs yellow with the outer surface of hind 

 femora, the apex of the middle and hind tarsi, dark." 



New Haven, 2y August, 1914 (W. E. B.) ; Derby, 11 June, 

 1915 (M. P. Zappe) ; New Canaan, 24 June, 1915 (Q. S. Lc^wry 



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