’ PARASITES OF GIPSY-MOTH CATERPILLARS. 193 
APANTELES FULVIPES HAL. 
The one among the hymenopterous parasites attacking the cater- 
pillars of the gipsy moth which has ever been received under circum- 
stances indicative of its unquestioned importance as an enemy of 
that host is at present known as Apanteles fulvipes (fig. 31). The 
name Glyptapanteles, as generically applied to it, has been regret- 
fully dropped, the more so since this name has already become familiar 
to many whose interest in parasites begins and ends with those which 
are included among the enemies of the gipsy and brown-tail moths. 
It was accepted, in the first place, on account of the immediate dis- 
tinction which it offered to Apanteles, as applied to A. solitarius and 
A. lacteicolor Vier., 
and because it 
seemed preferable to AN yy, 
make the technical Bin, Pa 
name the common KS ip 
nameas well. Now, 
with an enforced 
change in the spe- 
cific name vaguely 
in prospect, it would 
seem advisable to 
adopt an arbitrary 
common name 
rather than to at- 
tempt to popularize 
the technical name, 
and should it again 
become desirable to 
write of it in a pop- 
ular way, this will 
probably be done. 
That a change in its specific designation will become necessary when 
it shall have been thoroughly well studied abroad seems probable, 
although there is no basis upon which to make such a change at the 
present time. If, as European taxonomists have agreed, it is synony- 
mous with A. nemorum, described by Ratzeburg as a parasite of 
Lastocampa pint L. and is at the same time specifically identical with 
the form so determined by Marshall as a common species in England, 
there seems to be no reason why it should not be introduced success- 
fully into Massachusetts. A parasite with anything like the wide 
range of hosts accredited to this species abroad should find no diffi- 
culty in existing in America, and if the species which attacks the 
95677°—Bull, 91—11——138 
Fig. 31.—A panteles fulvipes: Adult. Greatly enlarged. (From Howard.) 
