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Three new West Indian Species of the Ichneumonid 

 Genus Eiphosoma (Hym.) 



By CHARLES T. BRUES, Bussey Institution, Harvard 



University. 



The peculiar genus Eiphosoma is widely distributed in the 

 American tropics, whence twelve species have already been de- 

 scribed 1 . In addition to these I obtained two others in Jamaica 

 some years ago. and Dr. W. M. Mann discovered one 

 in the neighboring island of Hayti. These are described on 

 the following pages. The types are in the author's collection. 



Eiphosoma luteum sp. nov. (Fig. 1). 



$ . Length 12 mm. Almost entirely luteous, paler on the head 

 and lower portions of the thorax; antennae black, the scape and pedi- 

 cel light brown below, darker above; basal joints of flagellum faintly 

 tipped with pale yellow; ocellar area, connected with a large trans- 

 verse marking on the occiput, black; teeth of mandibles black; middle 

 lobe of mesonotum with a black spot in front, shading into a brown 

 stripe behind: lateral lobes each with a brownish stripe; second and 

 third abdominal segments black on upper edge except at tip; follow- 

 ing segments similarly marked with piceous; tip of abdomen fuscous, 

 external genitalia black; hind trochanters and femora at base and 

 tip marked with fuscous; hind tibiae dark above and their tarsi en- 

 tirely dark fuscous. Wings hyaline, with a weak, but distinct infus- 

 cated area at tip. 



Head broad and thin; ocelli large, the lateral ones removed by 

 less than their diameter from the eye, twice as far from one another 

 as from the eye. Antennae reaching to middle of the second abdom- 

 inal segment, about 37-jointed. Face shining, sparsely punctate, al- 

 most smooth medially; clypeus strongly protuberant medially: malar 

 space two-thirds as long as width of mandible at base. 



Mesonotum sparsely punctate medially, shining, on the lateral lobes 

 almost without punctures. Scutellum smooth and shining. Propodeum 



1 See Cockerell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 46, pp. 61-64 (iQi3)- 



