. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 404 MICHAEL J. SHARKEY. Females. Generally as in cf holotype; females often with weaker sculpture; sternaulus usually 0-5 x length of mesopleuron (cf. Fig. 4a); anterior transverse carina of propodeum often absent or weak; 1st tergum of metasoma usually lacking strong median longitudinal carina, often with small anteromedial rise (cf. Fig. 14d); ovipositor 0-7-0-9 x body length. Variation § cf. Palpi usually (80%) brown; metapleuron and propodeum from yellow to black, usually (85%) reddish orange; all areas described as yellow, bro
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 404 MICHAEL J. SHARKEY. Females. Generally as in cf holotype; females often with weaker sculpture; sternaulus usually 0-5 x length of mesopleuron (cf. Fig. 4a); anterior transverse carina of propodeum often absent or weak; 1st tergum of metasoma usually lacking strong median longitudinal carina, often with small anteromedial rise (cf. Fig. 14d); ovipositor 0-7-0-9 x body length. Variation § cf. Palpi usually (80%) brown; metapleuron and propodeum from yellow to black, usually (85%) reddish orange; all areas described as yellow, brown or orange on holotype vary from yellow to red; antenna with 41-45 flagellomeres; propodeum well areolate, anterior transverse carina usually present (cf 95%) (9 80%); propodeum often with rugae in areolae, especially in males; 1st tergum of metasoma from smooth with small anteromedial bump (as in most females) (cf. Fig. 14d) to mostly rugose with strong median longitudinal carina and weak transverse rugae (many males) (Fig. 12c); ovipositor 0-7-0-9 x body length; body length 6-5-9-5 mm. Hosts. Microthyris anormalis (Guenee), Pachyzanc thesiusalis Walker, Pantographa limata G. and R., Pilemaperiusalis (Walker), Pilocrocis ramentalis (Lederer), Sylepta silicalis (Guenee), Syngamia haemor- \ rhoidalis (Guenee). Remarks. Needham (1955) has elucidated some aspects of the natural history of this species. Distribution and Material examined. Map 15. Eastern , west to Nebraska, north to the southern tip of Ontario, and south to the Florida Keys and southern Texas. Holotype cf, : Texas (USNM, type no. 1723). Determined specimens are deposited in the following institutions: AMNH, ANSP, BMNH, CNC, CU, FSCA, LFAC, MCZ, MSUE, RNHL, SC, TAMU, UCB, UGA, USNM. One specimen of A. texanus from the Ashmead collection (USNM) is recorded from 'British Columbia' (Canada?); I presume that it has been mislabelled. \. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t
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