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BASSUS CARPOCAPSAE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 4.5 mm. Black with abdomen (except first 

 tergite, which is black) and legs rufous. Head with orbits, sides of 

 face, and clypeus testaceous, middle of face, vertex, and occiput 

 black; face densely and vertex sparsely, finely punctured; mouth 

 parts (except tips of mandibles, which are black) pale fulvous; scape 

 and pedicel reddish-piceous, tip of pedicel paler, flagellum black; 

 mesonotum and scutellum sparsely, finely punctured, notauli strongly 

 crenulate; propodeum with a short median elevation at base, disk 

 strongly, finely reticulate, laterally more coarsely reticulate; fore and 

 middle legs entirely rufous; hind legs darker with base of coxae 

 shading into black, apex of tibiae and first three tarsal joints ringed 

 with fuscous; wings tinged with brown, nervures and stigma brown, 

 the latter with a pale spot at base; tegulae pale brownish; first tergite 

 black bordered apically and laterally with rufous, rather coarsely 

 aciculate throughout; remaining tergites smooth, shining, rufous, the 

 apical ones somewhat darkened, second and third long and subequal, 

 the others short; exposed portion of ovipositor somewhat shorter 

 than thorax and abdomen combined, sheath black, densely pilose. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18353, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — South Acton, Massachusetts. 



Host. — Carpocapsa pomonella. 



Described from eight female specimens; four (the type and para- 

 types, A, B, and C) from the type-locality reared by E. H. Siegler of 

 the Bureau of Entomology under Quaintance No. 6115 and on the 

 following dates: June 30, July 5 (the type and one other), and July 

 13, 1913; one (paratype D) from Woodside, Delaware, August 15, 

 1901, under Delaware Station No. 350; one reared by the author at 

 Vienna, Virginia, under Quaintance No. 7938; one (paratype F) from 

 Smithsburg, Maryland, reared by E. B. Blakeslee of the Bureau of 

 Entomology under Quaintance No. 7466; and one (paratype G) from 

 Rouserville, Pennsylvania, reared by F. L. Simanton of the Bureau of 

 Entomology May 22, 1913, under Quaintance No. 6116. 



All of these specimens, except possibly paratype D, the history of 

 which is not known, were reared from the codling moth (Carpocapsa 

 pomonella) . 



Paratypes A and B have the testaceous color on the face reduced to 

 a narrow space surrounding the eyes and the apex of the clypeus. 

 Paratypes D and E differ from the type in having the occiput and 

 thorax, especially on the sides of the latter, reddish-piceous rather 

 than black, all abdo min al segments fulvous, the first medially and the 

 apical ones somewhat dusky, and the dark color on the hind legs 

 much reduced, while the general color of the legs is paler. Paratypes 

 F and D differ from the type in having the dark portion of the face 



