NO. 2340. TRIBE EPHIALTINI OF THE ICHNEUMONINAE—CUSHMAN. 331 

 EPHIAI.TES (EPHIALTES) MAURA (Cresson). 



Pimpla viaura Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, p. 143, female. 



Type.— Ac&d. Nat. Sci. Phila., No. 1413. 



In the United States National Museum is a female of this species 

 from the Belfrage Texas collection. This specimen has been com- 

 pared by the writer with the type, from which it differs practically 

 only in being somewhat smaller and in having the propodeum with 

 the carinae, transverse regosity, and lateral angulations less strongly 

 developed. The very dark-colored legs with the pale markings of 

 the front femora and tibiae are characteristic of a small group of 

 species which includes also the next following species and two from 

 Japan (Pimpla pluto Ashmead and Pimpla parnarae Viereck). 

 Another rather conspicuous character that all have in common is 

 the dorsally prominent eyes, the top of the eyes being elevated above 

 the level of the vertex. The present species is very distinct from all 

 other North American species in its almost entirely black color. 



Other characteristics are clypeus broadly subtruncate and with a 

 narrow, reflexed, crenulate flange at apex; malar space barely half 

 as long as basal width of mandible; eyes very large, the head in front 

 view being much wider than long, inner margins of eyes deeply 

 sinuate; lower margins of antennal foramina below middle of eye; 

 face and vertex equal in width, the latter slightly below level of top of 

 eyes; front rather shallowiy concave, ruguloso-punctate; diameter of 

 lateral ocellus equal to length of ocell-ocular line, and much shorter 

 than postocellar line; notauli briefly, broadly impressed; propodeum 

 transversely rugulose above, reticulate punctate apicall}^, polished 

 behind, spiracles broadly oval; dorsal carinae of first tergite sub- 

 obsolete; nervulus distinctly postfurcal. 



All specimens known to the writer are from Texas. 



EPHIALTES (EPHIALTES) ELLOPIAE (Harrington). 



Pimpla ellopiae Harrington, Can. Ent., vol. 24, 1892, p. 99, female, male. 



T7/^t;.— Coll. W. H. Harrington, Ottawa, Canada. 



Five specimens, four females and one male, of this species in the 

 United States National Museum agree in practically every particular 

 with descriptive notes on the type by S. A. Rohwer. The females 

 vary from 10 mm. to 13 mm. in length, while the type is but 9.5 mm. 



Jn the type the abdomen is 6 mm. long and the exserted portion 

 of the ovipositor 3 mm.; in the largest of the National Museum 

 specimens the abdomen is 8 mm. and the ovipositor 3.5 mm. In the 

 latter specimen the hind femora are piceous, becoming almost red 

 within and at the base. The smallest of the National Museum 

 specimens has the abdomen and ovipositor as in the type and the 

 femora red except where they are piceous. A specimen in the 



