Neuroterus batata Mayr, 1881, Gen. Gallenbew. Cyrnip., 1). 37. Ashmead, 1885, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XII, p. 296. PACKARD), 1890, 5th Report U. S. Ent. Comm., p. 107.
Veuiroterus batatus Bassett, 1882, Amer. Nat., XVI, p. 246. Ashmead, 1887, Tranis. Amer. Ent. Soc., XIV, P. 132; 1890, Colo. Biol. Assoc. Bull., I, p). 38. Packard, 1890, 5th Report I. S. Ent. Comm., p. 109. Butenmüller, 1892, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, p. 262, P1. xiii, fig. 1; 1904, Amer. Mus. Journ., IV, p. 107, fig. 41; 1904, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XX, p. 26; 1904, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Guide Leaf. 16, P. 21, fig.; 1910, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXVIII, p. 117, P1. viii, figs. 1-8. Dalla Torre, 1893, Cat. Hymen., II, p. 40. Brodie, 1896, Ann. Report Forest. Ont., p. 117, fig. 3. Dalla Torre and Kieffer 1902, Gen. Ins., Hymen., Cynip., p. 50. Felt, 1906, Ins. Aff. Pk. Woodl. Trees, II, pp. 618, 624; 1918, N. Y. State Mus. Bull., CC, pp. 56, 58, fig. 54. Stebbins, 1910, Springfield (Mass.) Mus. Bull., II, p. 29. Smith, 1910, Ins. N. J., p. 598. COOK, 1910, Mich. Geol. and Biol. Surv. Publ. 1, P. 31. Thompson, 1915, Cat. Amer. Ins. Galls, pp. 6, 40, PI. I, fig. 76. Vierick, 1916, Hqymen. Conn., p. 384. Lutz, 1918, Field Book Ins., p. 464, P1. XCVIII, fig. 4.
Neutroterus quercus-batatus Dalla Torre and Kieffer, 1910, Das TierreiCh, XXIV, p. 334, fig. 55.
[Neuroterus batatus Fullway, 1911 =N. pacificus Beutenmüler.]
Range.—Canada (Brodie). New Hampshire: Wolfeboro. Massachusetts Auburn, Boston, Blue Hills, Marthas Vineyard. Rhode Island: Providence (Thompson). Connecticut: New Haven (Champlain, Walden); Waterbury (Bassett). New York: Neperan, Long Island, Staten Island (Beutenmüller). New Jersey: throughout (Smith). Virginia (Riley). Ohio (Beutenmüller). Illinois (Beutenmüller). Michigan (Cook). Colorado (Ashmead).
Neuroterus batatus form bisexualis, new name
.Plate XXIX, Figures 8 and 9
Female.—Alnmost entirely black except the legs and antennæ which are yellowish and brown; areolet large; length about 2.0 mm. Head: black; mouth-parts reddish; shagreened; sparsely hairy; antennæ 11-jointed, first three joints yellowish, the remaining joints brownish; hairy. Thorax: piceous black, shining, very finely shagreened, shrivelling on drying; parapsidal grooves, anterior parallel lines, etc., not present or sometimes very faintly traceable; scutellum black, broadly oval, finely shagreened, sparsely hairy; a distinct, arcuate depression separates the scutellum from the thorax; pronotum and mesopleuras reddish piceous. Abdomen: reddish piceous to black, smooth, shining, shrivelling on drying, angular in outline, as deep as long, the second segment extending not much more than one-third the total length. Legs: dark brown, hairy, yellowish at the joints, and on all the tarsi and on the tibiæ of the first and second pairs of legs. Wings: large, much longer than the body, clear; veins clear brown; areolet large; cubitus reaches the basal vein; radial area completely open on the margin; first abscissa of the radius angulate, the angle little more than a right angle but the apex high upon the vein. Length: 1.2-2.0 mm.
Male—Differs from the female as follows: head, thorax, and abdomen reddish to light piceous, the antennæ and legs entirely yellow; antenne 14-jointed, the third joint curved; abdomen petiolate; wings yellowish, the veins yellowish brown, areolet of moderate size; length, 1.2-2.0 mm.
