ART. 8. ASHMEAD MANUSCRIPT ICHNEUMONIDAE — CUSHMAN. 11 



all coxae and basal joint of hind trochanter black; wings hyaline, 

 venation brown. 



Tyfe locality.— Monnt Washington, New Hampshire. 



Type.—C?ii. No. 25011, U.S.N.M. 



One female from Mrs. Slosson. 



DELETER WASIIINGTONENSIS Ashmcad MS. 



" Deleter wasMngtonensis Aslim. n. sp.," Sr.ossoN, Ent. News, vol. 17, 1906, 

 p. 324. 



Eetained by Ashmead but not found in National Collection. 



DELOMERISTA TEXANA (Cresson). 



Pimpla texano Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. See, vol. 3, 1870, p. 14.5. 

 " Pimpline n. gen. et u. sp., Ashmead," Slosson, Ent, News, vol. 17, 1906. 

 p. 324. 

 (DIATORA COMPRESSA Ashmead MS.)=POLYAULON COMPRESSUM Cushman. new 



species. 

 DIOCTES ALTICOLA, new species. 



" Zajyortts alticola Ashm. n. sp.," Slosson, Ent. News, vol. 17, 1906, p. 324. 



Can not run to Zaporus, as placed by Ashmead, for the head 

 is strongly transverse with receding temples, not cubical. 



Female.— L&ngih. 5.5 mm.; antennae, 4 mm. 



Very similar to oUiteratus (Cresson) but more slender, the thorax 

 being nearly twice as long as high, and with the propodeal carinae, 

 except basal, indistinct. 



Head and thorax silvery pubescent ; head narrow, scarcely as wide 

 as thorax; temples sloping; face as broad as vertex, frons slightly 

 wider due to slight emargination of eyes; malar space as long as 

 basal width of mandible; antennae very slender. Thorax granu- 

 lated; propodeal carinae behind basal weak and diffused, areola 

 apparently separated from petiolar area; legs slender, hind tibia 

 distinctly smaller near apex than near base; stigma very narrow; 

 second abscissa of cubitus longer than intercubitus ; lower apical 

 angle of discoidal cell acute, the recurrent nearly continuous with 

 second abscissa of cubitus ; second abscissa of discoidens shorter than 

 third; spiracles of second tergite at middle; gastrocoeli removed 

 from base, connected by a transverse furrow; ovipositor sheath 

 hardly as long as first tergite. 



Black, this color including the hind coxae and basal joint of 

 trochanters ; mandibles, palpi, scape and pedicel below, tegulae, front 

 and middle coxae and trochanters, apical joint of hind trochanter, 

 hind tibia largely, calcaria, and bases of tarsal joints whitish; legs 

 testaceous, the hind tibia at base and apex and the tarsal joints at 

 apex fuscous; wings hyaline with venation brown, white at base. 



Type locality.— Mount Washington, New Hampshire. 



Type.— Cat No. 25015, U.S.N.M. 



One female from Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. 



