ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[Jan., '04 



Description of the type of the genus Curriea Ashm. 

 BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, M. A., D. Sc. 



The genus Curriea was characterized in my generic table of 

 the tribe Braconini in my Classification of the Ichneumon- 

 Flies, in the Proceedings of the United States Museum, vol. 

 xxiii, 1900, p. 137, upon a unique specimen collected by Mr. 

 Rolla P. Currie, in 1897, i 11 Liberia, Africa. 



The genus is easily recognized by the very large eyes, which 

 occupy the whole sides of the head, extend to the base of the 

 mandibles, and are emarginate within opposite the insertion 

 of the antennae. It is the only genus, falling in the sub- 

 family BraconincE with emarginated eyes. Below I give a 

 figure and description of the type. 



Curriea fasciatipennis new species. 



9. Length 7 mm. ; expanse 

 of wings 18 mm. ; ovipositor 

 longer than half the length of 

 the abdomen. Uniformly brown- 

 ish yellow, polished, impunc- 

 tate, the eyes and the sheaths 

 of the ovipositor, black ; wings 

 yellowish-hyaline, with three 

 transverse fuscous bands, the 

 first across from the parastigma, 

 the second across from the ex- 

 treme apex of the stigma, the 

 third at the apical margin and 

 connected with the second by 

 a fuscous streak along the front and hind margins of the wing ; the hind 

 wings have their apices fuscous ! the costal vein, the parastigma, the post 

 marginal vein except at apex, and the median vein, are fuscous, while 

 the stigma and internal veins are yellow. The abdomen is shaped as in 

 Melanobracon ; the first segment has a deep furrow at each side, leaving 

 a lanceolate elevation on the disk ; the second segment has a triangular 

 elevation at basal middle, with a depression on either side, the depres- 

 sions with elevated lines ; the third and the following segments are 

 smooth, with the extreme apical margins rimmed, the third being sep- 

 arated from the second by a crenulate furrow. 



Type. Cat. No. 7320, U. S. N. M. 



Mount Coffee, Liberia. Described from a single specimen 

 taken by Mr. Rolla P. Currie, in honor of whom the genus 

 was named. 



