﻿ICHNEUMON-FLIES 
  OF 
  GENUS 
  CRYPTANURA 
  — 
  CUSHMAN 
  151 
  

   6. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  PICEOTHORAX, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Longtli 
  1-2 
  iniu.. 
  rtntcnniie 
  8.5 
  inin., 
  ovipositor 
  shealli 
  

   3.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Temples 
  narrow, 
  flat, 
  and 
  sharply 
  receding; 
  occipital 
  carina 
  prom- 
  

   inent, 
  especially 
  below, 
  where 
  it 
  joins 
  the 
  hypostomal 
  carina 
  not 
  far 
  

   from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  mandible; 
  vertex 
  nearly 
  straight 
  across 
  except 
  

   for 
  a 
  groove 
  at 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  ocelli; 
  ocelli 
  at 
  level 
  of 
  superior 
  tangent 
  

   of 
  eyes; 
  frons 
  moderately 
  concave, 
  slightly 
  tumid 
  laterally, 
  horns 
  

   prominent 
  on 
  a 
  common 
  base; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large 
  and 
  somewhat 
  

   bulging, 
  weakly 
  convergent 
  below; 
  face 
  with 
  a 
  rather 
  deep 
  striate 
  

   impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  middle, 
  the 
  middle 
  roundly 
  convex 
  and 
  

   with 
  sparse, 
  coarse 
  punctures; 
  clypeus 
  sculptured 
  like 
  middle 
  of 
  face, 
  

   strongly 
  convex, 
  in 
  profile 
  subnasute; 
  malar 
  space 
  flat, 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  basal 
  width 
  of 
  mandible; 
  antennae 
  stout, 
  slightly 
  thickened 
  and 
  

   flattened 
  near 
  apex, 
  29-jointed. 
  Thorax 
  stout, 
  generally 
  coarsely 
  

   punctate 
  to 
  striatorugose; 
  pronotum 
  with 
  humeral 
  margin 
  smooth^ 
  

   conically 
  produced 
  anteriorly, 
  scrobes 
  coarsely 
  striate; 
  mesoscutum 
  

   coar.-^ely 
  punctate, 
  prescutum 
  somewhat 
  rugose, 
  lobes 
  rather 
  flat; 
  

   scutellum 
  flat 
  and 
  coarsely 
  punctate 
  above, 
  apex 
  rather 
  abrupt 
  and 
  

   impuMctate; 
  frena 
  of 
  both 
  scutellum 
  and 
  postscutellum 
  coarsely 
  

   foveolate; 
  pleura 
  and 
  propodeum 
  coarsely 
  striatorugose; 
  sternum 
  

   coarsely 
  punctate; 
  basal 
  areas 
  partly 
  smooth; 
  basal 
  median 
  area 
  

   l)artly 
  defined, 
  basal 
  carina 
  nearly 
  straight; 
  legs 
  rather 
  stout, 
  hind 
  

   femur 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  tibia 
  and 
  not 
  extending 
  

   to 
  apex 
  of 
  abdomen; 
  hind 
  coxa 
  coarsely 
  punctate 
  above; 
  areolet 
  short. 
  

   Abdomen 
  broad, 
  polished; 
  petiole 
  strongly 
  depressed, 
  post 
  petiole 
  

   much 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  with 
  a 
  weak 
  elevation 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  middle 
  

   between 
  spiracles, 
  but 
  without 
  dorsal 
  carinae; 
  second 
  tergite 
  a 
  little 
  

   shoiter 
  than 
  first 
  and 
  only 
  about 
  a 
  third 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  at 
  base; 
  

   sheath 
  sliorter 
  than 
  abdomen 
  beyond 
  first 
  tergite; 
  ovipositor 
  rather 
  

   thick, 
  in 
  profile 
  rather 
  slender, 
  a 
  little 
  deeper 
  near 
  apex, 
  the 
  apex 
  not 
  

   at 
  all 
  sagittate. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  black 
  to 
  rcdtlisli 
  piceous, 
  both 
  with 
  yellow 
  mark- 
  

   ings 
  (see 
  description 
  of 
  color 
  pattern, 
  p. 
  MI); 
  amiuhis 
  emliiacing 
  

   flagellar 
  joints 
  (5) 
  6-9 
  (10) 
  ; 
  single 
  spot 
  on 
  disk 
  of 
  mesoscul 
  urn 
  ; 
  only 
  

   apex 
  (tf 
  scutellum 
  yellow; 
  most 
  of 
  nies(»pleuron 
  and 
  sternum 
  and 
  

   nietaj)leiiron 
  except 
  suture 
  sepai'al 
  ing 
  its 
  two 
  divisions 
  yellow 
  ; 
  pro[)o- 
  

   deMJ 
  marking 
  extending 
  broadly 
  forward 
  to 
  basiil 
  caiina, 
  but 
  con- 
  

   stricted 
  before 
  apophyses. 
  Legs 
  ferruginous, 
  coxae 
  and 
  trochanters 
  

   partly 
  yellow. 
  Wings 
  hyaline, 
  veins 
  blacU, 
  stigma 
  brown. 
  Abdomen 
  

   lilack 
  with 
  white 
  markings; 
  petiole, 
  except 
  vent 
  rally, 
  white 
  ; 
  three 
  spots 
  

   t 
  lan.-vei-sely 
  airange(] 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  second 
  teigite 
  and 
  a 
  bioad 
  subapical 
  

   band 
  also 
  white; 
  the 
  extreme 
  a[)ex 
  i)lack. 
  

  

  