ART. 8. ASHMEAD MANUSCRIPT ICHNBUMONIDAE CUSHMAN. 16 



Type.—Q^i. No. 25019, U.S.N.M. 



One female taken by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson. 



(HIMERTOSOMA QUINQUECINCTUM Ashmead MS.)=SYRPHOCTONUS VERTEBRATUS 

 Cushman, new species. 



This specimen is the type of vertehratus. 



HOMASPIS SLOSSONAE, new species. 



" Homaspis slossonae Ashm.," Slosson, Eut. News, vol. S, 1S97, p. 237. 



Agrees in all respects with Schmiedeknecht's ^ description of the 

 genus except that the punctuation of mesoscutum, scutellum, and face 

 is sparse and the spiracles of first tergite are not protruding. 



3/ale. — Length, 10 mm. Antennae beyond pedicel missing. In a 

 larger specimen which lacks the abdomen the antennae are appar- 

 ently shorter than body, thickened in middle and tapering at apex. 



Head with convexly sloping temples, polished behind, opaque in 

 front; frons, face, and clypeus sparsely punctate; clypeus apically 

 impressed and medially emarginate; malar space very short; pro- 

 notum, mesoscutum and scutellum subpolished, sparsely punctate, 

 the first rugose in impression; pleura polished, practically impunc- 

 tate; sternum subopaque; propodeum with carinae very strong, so 

 arranged as to form a W, irregidarly rugose between and laterad 

 of the carinae; spiracle small, nearly circular; first tergite rather 

 broad at apex, not constricted beyond spiracles, latter not prom- 

 inent, median carinae reaching nearly to apex ; dorso-lateral carinae 

 strong from base to apex, sides of petiole vertically rugose, apex of 

 tergite longitudinally striate ; second tergite obsoletely longitudinally 

 striate, more distinctly so in basal middle ; other tergites polished. 



Black; clypeus, mandibles, and scape and pedicel beneath piceous; 

 palpi pale; wings brownish hyaline, venation blackish, basally, to- 

 gether with tegulae, stramineous; legs testaceous, hind tibia and 

 tarsus and femur narrowly at apex black. 



Type locality. — Alpine region of Mount Washington, New Hamp- 

 shire. 



Other locality. — Hanover, New Hampshire. 



Type.— Csit No. 25020, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two specimens. The type is also the type of Ash- 

 mead's manuscript name. 



(HYPOLEPUS (sic!) ALTICOLA Ashmead MS.)=HYPOLEPTUS MONTICOLA Cushman, 

 new species. 



Specimen returned by Ashmead to Mr. Slosson who has sent it to 

 me for examination. The specific name is probably a lapsus calami 

 for monticola. 



^ Opusc. Ifhn., p. 2663. 



