THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 101 



THREE NEW ICHNEUMON FLIES FROM RUSSIA. 



BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD, M.A., D.SC , WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Mr. Jacob Schreiner, of St. Petersburg, Russia, has been sending me 

 for names some of his rearings of parasitic Hymenoptera, among which 

 are many interesting species. 



In his last sending were three which are apparently undescribed, and 



as they are of great economic importance I submit the following 



descriptions : 



Genus Pristomertjs, Holmgren. 



Frisiotnerus Schreineri, new species. — $. Length, 7.8 mm.; 

 ovipositor almost as long as the abdomen. Black, the abdomen with the 

 venter, the dorsal segments 3 to 6, except the third basally, and the legs, 

 including all coxae, pale ferruginous, the hind tibiae at apex narrowly 

 fuscous ; antennae black, with the first three joints, except the apex of the 

 third, honey-yellow ; wings hyaline, the stigma reddish-brown, the veins 

 blackish, the tegul^e yellowish. The head and thorax are very finely 

 punctate, slightly shining, the metathorax rugulose and distinctly 

 areolated ; the abdomen is smooth, but with the first and second segments 

 and the base of the third segment delicately, but distinctly, longitudinally 

 striated. 



(^ . — Length, 6.5 to 7.5 mm. Agrees well with the female, except 

 that the ventral segments, except the first and the second, the sutures of 

 the following, and the dorsal segments, except the apex of the second, the 

 third entirely, and the fourth and fifth laterally, are black. 



Type.— Cat. No. 7778, U. S. N. M. 



St. Petersburg, Russia. Described from i ? and 2 $ specimens, 



bred by Mr. Jacob Schreiner from the larvae of Pliitella cruci/erarutn, 



Zeller. 



Genus Temelucha, Forster. 



Temelucha plutellcp.,Vit^ species. — 9, Length, 7.5 mm.; ovipositor 

 a little shorter than the abdomen. Black, the orbits broadly, the cheeks, 

 the face below the insertion of the antennse, except the sutures of the 

 clypeus, the scape of tHfe antennae beneath, the ' upper margin of the 

 prothorax and the lateral angles to the tegulae, a \/V-shaped mark on the 

 mesonotum, the scutellum entirely, a broad band and a rounded spot on 

 the mesopleura, a spot back of the insertion of the hind wings, a stripe on 

 the metapleura, a band above this stripe and connected with a transverse 

 band near the apex of the metathorax, yellow ; the tegulae, the front and 

 middle legs^ a spot at apex of hind coxae, and the apex of the hind 



