C. T. Brues.
Note on the Genus Liobracon, with the Description of a New Species (Hymenoptera; Braconidae).
Psyche 26(3):68-71, 1919.

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68 Psyche [June
52. Pachydiplax longipennis (Burm.). ,June 7 to Aug. 6. Several specimens.
53. Leucorrhinia frigida Hagen. June to Aug. 11. Several speci- mens. This is the most southern station for this northern species.
54. Leucorrhinia intacta Hagen. June 9. Several specimens. 55. Celithemis elisa (Hagen). July 26 to Aug. 11. Several speci-
mens.
56. Celithemis eponina (Drury). July 8 to Aug. 16. Several specimens.
57. Celithemis mnomelieana Will. July 8 to Aug. 14. Several specimens.
This is the most northern and second New England record and station for this rare southern species. 58. Celithemis ornata Rarnb.
July 2 to Aug. 14.
Several speci-
mens.
59. Pantda fiavescens (Fabr.). Aug. 9. One specimen. 60. Tramea carolina (Linn.). June to July 30. Several speci- mens.
NOTE ON THE GENUS LIOBRACON, WITH THE
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES (HYMEN-
OPTERA; BRACONIDB) .
Bussey Institution, Harvard University.
In a small collection of Parasitic Hymenoptera collected in Hayti several years ago by Dr. William M. Mann, I have found several specimens of the insect described by Cresson as Brawn distinctus in his "Hymenoptera of Cuba." This proves to belong to the genus Liobracon Szepligeti, to which several South American species have hitherto been referred. In addition there is a second species taken by Dr. Mann which is described below. Liobracon Sz6pligeti.
Termes Fuzetek, Vol. 24, p. 361.
(1901.)
Gen. Ins., fasc. 22, p. 66.
(1904.)
Type L. macula Brull6 (singularis Sz6p). The species may be distinguished as follows: Pachi 26:W (1919). hup Upsychu einclub org/26?26-W html



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1. Wings fuscous or black. ................................ .8
Wings fiavous, marked with black. ...................... -8 8. Wings with two black bands. ............. .genicvlaiw PruU
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Apical half of wing black.
.parbitus Enderlein
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Stigma yellow; legs red and black; s&tellu& bifoveate at base .4 4. Pronoturn and propleura smooth; thorax andmiddle of hind femora red; scutellum bifoveate at base. ... cresmii D. T. Pronoturn and most of propleura rugose-reticulate; thorax and legs entirely black; scutellum with a crenate furrow at ..................................
base.. m.anni sp, nov.
6. Antenna1 flagellum black; second suture of abdomen weakly ...............................
mulate. mawda Bmll6
Antenna1 flagellum dark red; second suture smooth rvfieomts Cam.
Liobracoa m d sp. nov.
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Length 8 mm. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen- Black, including the wings entirely; abdomen bright ved; body clothed with long and wry sparse white hairs. Head as thick as broad, distinctly, but not strongly margined behind; eyes prominent, temples broad, widened behind the eyes. Front impressed, the depression extending around the ooellar tubercle, with a median carina between and just above the antennae, but without punctures. Head above smooth and shining; face rugose-reticulate at the sides, rugose below, with an elongate median amooth tubercle. Malar space half the height of the eye, without furrow; head behind with a few very fine punctures, Aatennse as long as the body; scape twice as long as thick, not noticeably swollen; flagellar joints all nearly three times as long as thick, first not noticeably longer than the second, following three or four scarcely decreasing in length. Pronoturn rugose-reticulate with a transverse groove at the extreme posterior margin. Mesonoturn smooth and polished except for a few coarse punctures medialiy behind; parapsidal furrows smooth, very deep, the median lobe strongly elevated anteriorly with its surface rising vertically behind the prothorax. Scutellum smooth, . flat, at the base with a broad furrow composed of eight elongate fovese. Propodeurn covered wi th scattered round impressions; these are well-separated, of about equal size, each somewhat smaller than



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one of the ooelli; medially with two closely approximate, punctate, grooved lines. Prosternum with sparse, rather large punctures; mesostemurn smooth. Propleura closely, irregularly punctate below, above which is a coarsely, transversely, striate impression; upper angle with some irregular, coarse sculpture. Mesopleura smooth, convex, except for a furrow next the tegula, a broader one not far below the first and a deep foveate impression at the middle just before the posterior edge. Metapleura with scat- tered, setigerous puncture9; 8pimIe small, nearly round; aubspiracu- lar groove very finely impressed. Abdomen as long as the thorax, aubacute at tip and much swollen at the middle; first segment with four short carbe at base, the lateral ones close to the margin, its surface with a few poorly impressed large punctures, more notice- able laterally; median portion nearly flat; second and following segments entirely smooth; second with its middle portion, defined by a punctate line, broadly transversely oval, more than twice as wide as long; from the side of this an oblique punctate furrow extends backward to the margin and another one directly forward, these defining a large side piece and a small triangular depressed area at the anterior edge between the sidepiece and the central oval space; comers of following segments not distinctly separated; hhd margin of third segment weakly sinuate. Legs very stout; middle and hind tarsi no longer than their tibiae; tibia1 spurs very short; claws simple; front tibiae with a row of stout spinules on the front side. Radial cell ending considerably before the wing tip, third section of radius nearly twice as long aa the other two together; second more than twice as long as the fast and scarcely longer than the second transverse cubitus; submedian cell longer than the median by nearly the length of the nervulus which is very slightly oblique; parallel vein originating at the lower corner of the third discoidal cell; recurrent nerm entering the first cubital cell far before the apex; second cubital with almost parallel sides and weakly narrowed above. Radial cell of hind wing without indica- tion of a cross-vein, the discoidal vein (originating at the lower end of the basal vein) not transverse except at base, sharply bent and extending toward the apex of the wing.
Type from St. Marc, Hayti.
Although very similar to L. cressonii, this species differs notice- ably in the sculptured pronotum and punctate furrows on the sec-



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19191 Smulyan-Observations on the Webbing Clothes Moth 71 ond abdominal segment, as well as in the plainly undivided radial cell and curved discoidal vein in the hind wing. Liobracon cressonii D. T.
Cresson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, Vol. 4, p. 75. (1865.)
(Bracon distinctus.)
Dalla Torre, Cat. Hym., Vol. 4, p. 264.
(1898.)
(Bracon cres-
sonii.)
Dr. Mann took this species in Hayti at Cape Haytien, Grand Rivihre and St. Marc.
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEBBING CLOTHES MOTH (TINEOLA BISELLIELLA HUM .) ?
BY M. T. SMULYAN,
U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts. Two larvae, 7 and 11 mm. long, respectively, discovered working in the writer's overcoat October 25,1917, were placed in a glass jar lined, except at the top, with a layer of gray felt, and placed in his sleeping room where his clothes-closet was located, for rearing and observation. The room was then receiving, and continued to do so until well into April, some furnace heat during the day, but was quite cool during the night and early forenoon, when it was freely ventilated. Owing to the writer's regular duties, most of the observations dealing with the behavior of the larvse were made at the close of the day, by artificial light-which, as will be seen below, may have had a bearing on the behavior of one of them. October 28, both larvae feeding freely. November 1, the smaller within a substantial cocoon, at the bottom of the jar. November 2, had moulted-found the cast shell of the head just outside the cocoon, at one end, and the remainder of the skin just outside at the opposite end-but when the jar was brought closer to the light (gas) in order to verify the observation, the larva hurried out of the cocoon and crawled away. November 4, the same individual in the process of constructing another cocoon; the other-the larger- was still feeding freely. November 7, found the latter encased in a 1 Identity of species verified by Mr. August Busck of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, Wash- ington, D. C.




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