SEEPHOID AND CHALCIDOID PARASITES OF THE HESSIAN FLY 105 



Homoporus chalcidiphagus Webster, U.S.Dept.Agr., Bur. Ent. Circ. (rev.) 66: 

 4, 1908; Webster and Reeves, U.S.Dept.Agr., Bur. Ent. Circ. 106: 8, 9, 1909; 

 Treherne, Ontario Ent. Soc. Rpt. 46: 186, 1915; Phillips and Poos, Jour. Agr. 

 Research 21: 405, 415-420, 1921; Pettit and McDaniel, Mich. State Bd. Agr. 

 Ann. Rpt. Sec. (1918/19) 58:272, 1920; Phillips and Poos, U.S. Dept. Agr. 

 Farmers' Bui. 1323 : 8, 1923 ; Jour. Agr. Research 34 : 475, 1927 ; Phillips, Jour. 

 Agr. Research 34 : 751, 1927. 



Merisus (Phaenacra) chalcidiphagus Viereck, Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. 

 Survey Bui. 22: 479, 1916. 



Figure 24 — Merisoporus chalcidiphagus (Walsh and Riley) : A, Adult female; B, antenna 

 ' of female ; C, antenna of male ;• D, mandibles of female. A, X 2d. 



Merisus {Homoporus) crassinervls Thomson, Skandinaviens Hymenoptera, 

 v. 5, p. 68, 1878. rTy . ■ 



Homoporus crassinervls Rimsky-Korsakov, Trudi Bur. Ent. [Russia J 10 (11) : 

 67, 1914; Ferriere and Faure, Ann. Epiphyties 11: 228, 1925; Meyer, Rpt. Appl. 

 Ent. Leningrad 4 : 239, 1929. 



Merisoporus crassin&rvis Masi, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (d) 1VIZ6U, 

 1924. 



DESCRIPTION 



The distinct fuscous cloud in the fore wing, pointed antenna! club, 

 absence of lateral folds on the propodeum, and the blue-black color 

 of head and thorax distinguish Merisoporus chalctdtphagus troni 



