﻿ICHNEUMON-FLIES 
  OF 
  GENUS 
  CRYPTANURA 
  — 
  CUSHMAN 
  153 
  

  

  eyes 
  large, 
  somewhat 
  buliriiig, 
  weakly 
  convergent 
  below; 
  face 
  nearly 
  

   smooth 
  laterally 
  and 
  medially 
  with 
  a 
  rugose 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   of 
  middle, 
  the 
  rugae 
  extending 
  across 
  middle 
  at 
  top; 
  clypeus 
  smooth 
  

   with 
  large 
  scattered 
  punctures, 
  nasute 
  in 
  profile; 
  malar 
  space 
  flat 
  and 
  

   fully 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  basal 
  witlth 
  of 
  mandible; 
  antenna 
  rather 
  stout, 
  weakly 
  

   thickened 
  and 
  flattened 
  near 
  apex, 
  30-jointed. 
  Thorax 
  stout; 
  humeral 
  

   margin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  smooth, 
  conically 
  prominent 
  anteriorly, 
  scrobe 
  

   striate; 
  mesoscutum 
  coarsely 
  punctate, 
  lobes 
  rather 
  flat, 
  present 
  um 
  

   very 
  low 
  anteriorly; 
  scutellum 
  sloping 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  apex, 
  polished, 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  large 
  punctures; 
  frena 
  coarsely 
  foveolate; 
  mesopleuron 
  

   longitudinally 
  striate 
  below 
  tubercle, 
  obliquely 
  and 
  indistinctly 
  so 
  

   below, 
  elsewhere 
  polished 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate, 
  prepectus 
  rugu- 
  

   lose-punctate, 
  sternum 
  polislied 
  and 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  metapleunm 
  

   coarsely 
  rugose 
  above, 
  polislied 
  and 
  punctate 
  below, 
  as 
  is 
  also 
  its 
  upper 
  

   division; 
  propodeum 
  largely 
  rugose, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  transversely 
  so 
  

   behind 
  apophyses, 
  basal 
  median 
  area 
  defined, 
  basal 
  carina 
  curved 
  

   medially; 
  legs 
  rather 
  slender 
  but 
  not 
  long, 
  hind 
  femur 
  barely 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  tibia 
  and 
  not 
  reaching 
  apex 
  of 
  abdomen; 
  areolet 
  

   short. 
  Abdomen 
  broad, 
  polished, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  large 
  punctures 
  at 
  sides 
  

   of 
  postpetiole 
  and 
  second 
  tergite; 
  first 
  segment 
  stout, 
  petiole 
  flattened 
  

   above 
  but 
  not 
  distinctly 
  depressed, 
  postpetiole 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  

   long, 
  without 
  trace 
  of 
  dorsal 
  carinae; 
  second 
  tergite 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  first, 
  but 
  barely 
  a 
  third 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  at 
  base 
  ; 
  ovipositor 
  sheath 
  

   distinctly 
  shorter 
  than 
  abdomen 
  beyond 
  first 
  segment; 
  ovipositor 
  of 
  

   uniform 
  depth; 
  apex 
  weakly 
  subsagittate. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  black 
  with 
  yellow 
  markings 
  (see 
  description 
  of 
  

   color 
  pattern, 
  p. 
  141) 
  ; 
  annulus 
  embracing 
  flagellar 
  joints 
  (5) 
  6-11 
  

   (13); 
  anterior 
  margin 
  of 
  pi-onotum 
  medially 
  and 
  humeral 
  margins 
  

   before 
  tegulae 
  black; 
  spot 
  in 
  center 
  of 
  mesoscutum; 
  scutellum 
  yellow 
  

   only 
  at 
  apex; 
  mesopleural 
  band 
  divided 
  into 
  a 
  large 
  spot 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  

   a 
  smaller 
  one 
  posteriorly; 
  a 
  large 
  spot 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  sternum; 
  both 
  

   npj)er 
  and 
  lower 
  divisions 
  of 
  metapleuron 
  largely 
  yellow; 
  propodeal 
  

   markings 
  extending 
  broadly 
  forward 
  to 
  carina 
  but 
  constricted 
  before 
  

   apophyses. 
  Front 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  yellow, 
  with 
  their 
  coxae, 
  tro- 
  

   chanters, 
  and 
  femora 
  black 
  behind; 
  hind 
  coxa 
  black 
  and 
  yellow, 
  tro- 
  

   chanter 
  and 
  femur 
  ferruginous, 
  tibia 
  and 
  tarsus 
  yellow. 
  Wings 
  

   hyaline, 
  venation 
  black. 
  Abdomen 
  fei'iiiginous; 
  petiole 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  

   fii-st 
  tergite 
  yellow, 
  postjM'fioh! 
  ferruginous 
  and 
  black; 
  stcrnites 
  pale 
  

   ferruginous 
  margined 
  wilh 
  whitish. 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Kurrenabaque, 
  Itif) 
  Beni, 
  I'olivia. 
  

  

  Type. 
  — 
  One 
  female, 
  taken 
  in 
  October 
  by 
  W. 
  M. 
  Mami 
  on 
  the 
  

   Mul 
  ford 
  P.iological 
  E.\i)loration 
  of 
  191^-22. 
  It 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  

   Museum 
  (No. 
  570C5). 
  

  

  