OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XI, 1909. 203 



NEW PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA. 



BY J. C. CRAWFORD. 



SUPERFAMILY ICHNEUMONOIDEA. 

 Family BRACONIDvE. 



Glyptocolastes bruchivorus, new species. 



Female. Length 2.5 to 4.5 mm. ; reddish-brown ; the metathorax 

 darker, at times fuscous; the apical margin of segments 2 and 3 of 

 abdomen sometimes dark ; head finely lineolate and rugulose, more 

 distinctly so on post-vertex ; the antennae brown, reaching about to 

 apex of second abdominal segment; mesothorax rugose, obscuring the 

 parapsidal furrows ; a small spot on outer side of parapsidal areas 

 Miiooth except for a fine reticulation ; scutellum at base separated from 

 nusonotum by a transverse row of deep pits; scutellum finely reticulate 

 and with a few small punctures ; post-scutellum with a transverse row 

 of deep pits; metathorax, including the posterior face, rugose, the 

 rugae arranged in irregular reticulations ; metathorax with a median 

 longitudinal carina, on each side of which at base is an area with 

 only fine reticulations : mesopleurse finely reticulate above, with a few 

 longitudinal striae ; wings almost hyaline, the nervures dark-brown : 

 first recurrent nervure joins the first submarginal cell some distance 

 before its apex; the second transverso-cubital nervure obsolescent; 

 the legs more yellowish than the rest of the insect ; first segment of 

 abdomen with two longitudinal carinse, converging toward the apex; 

 tlie surface of that segment with numerous longitudinal rugae, as is 

 the second segment; the oblique lateral furrows of the second segment 

 much more oblique and indistinct than in G. texanus Ashm. ; the basal 

 ends of these furrows connected by an indistinct curved line, which 

 curves toward the apex of the abdomen ; beyond this curved line the 

 ~'ri)i](l segment of the abdomen, in addition to the longitudinal 

 rug.T, is finely retxulate ; the longitudinal rugae becoming weaker 

 inward apex of segment, which is narrowly smooth and shiny; the 

 third and following segments finely reticulate, with narrow, smooth 

 apical margins; the third with fine longitudinal ruguhe: ovipositor 

 short, about halt the length of abdomen. 



Male. Similar in size and structure to the female, but more finely 

 -tained with fuscous. 



Victoria, Texas. 



Parasite of Bnichns prosopis. 



Type No. 12816, U. S. National Museum. 



