238 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



MARCH 7, 1895. 



President Ashmead was in the chair, and Messrs. Marlatt, 

 Vaughan, Benton, Gill, Patten, Schwarz, Linell, Chittenden, 

 Coquillett, Howard, Riley, Heidemann, Stiles, DeSchweinitz, 

 and Fernow were also present. 



Mr. Ashmead read the following paper : 



ON THE GENUS BARYCNEMIS FORSTER. 

 By WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 



The genus Barycnemis was erected by Dr. Arnold Forster, in 

 his " Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen," 

 published in the Verhandlungen des natur-historischen Vereins 

 der preussische Rheinlande und Westphalens, vol. xxv, 1868, p. 

 147. 



The type is not mentioned and, so far as I am aware, the genus 

 has not since been recognized. 



In Mr. W. Hague Harrington's collection of Braconidae, kindly 

 loaned me for study and comparison, during the progress of my 

 work in monographing the North American Braconidag, I found a 

 most singular looking Ichneumonid, bearing a superficial resem 

 blance to some of the Euphorinae, which, for a time, was ex 

 ceedingly difficult to place. Finally, however, after many trials 

 and tribulations and the expenditure of much time in going over 

 the literature, with the aid of Forster's Synopsis, I have been 

 able to place it. It belongs, without doubt, in his genus 

 Barycnemis. 



The genus was briefly characterized by Forster among the 

 genera belonging to his family Porizonoidce, which, however, is 

 not a distinct family, according to my views, but should be con 

 sidered as a tribe in the subfamily Ophionince. 



The genus appears most closely allied to Porizon Grav., but 

 is readily separated from it and all other genera in the group by 

 the much longer, more linear body, the short swollen femora 

 and tibiae, and by the very long, slender tarsi, which are as long 

 or even longer than the femora and tibiae combined. 



Our species may be briefly characterized as follows : 



Barycnemis linearis sp. n. 



9- Length 4 mm. ; ovipositor a little longer than the petiole, recurved. 

 Body elongate, slender, polished black; abdomen more or less along the 

 sides and beneath dark honey-yellow or reddish ; antennae filiform, brown ; 

 legs honey-yellow, or reddish-yellow, the hind femora more or less 

 brownish above. Wings hyaline, the stigma large, triangular, brown ; 



