﻿ICHNEUMON-FLIES 
  OF 
  GENUS 
  CRYPTANURA 
  CUSHMAN 
  157 
  

  

  Type 
  locality. 
  — 
  Cleveland, 
  Ohio. 
  

  

  Types. 
  — 
  One 
  female 
  (the 
  holotype) 
  captured 
  September 
  19, 
  1932, 
  by 
  

   Frank 
  D. 
  DeGant; 
  one 
  female 
  paratype, 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  Mo., 
  June 
  29, 
  1938; 
  

   and 
  one 
  female 
  paratype 
  received 
  from 
  H. 
  A. 
  Scullen, 
  Corvallis, 
  Oreg., 
  

   but 
  probably 
  eastern. 
  A\\ 
  are 
  m 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  (No. 
  

   57068). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  second 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  tropical 
  genus 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   United 
  States. 
  

  

  12. 
  CRYPTANURA 
  APOPHYSIS, 
  new 
  specieii 
  

  

  Distinct 
  from 
  all 
  tlie 
  other 
  species 
  known 
  to 
  me 
  in 
  its 
  extraordinarily 
  

   large 
  propodeal 
  apophyses. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  almost 
  unique 
  in 
  its 
  entirely 
  

   yellow 
  front 
  and 
  middle 
  legs 
  and 
  black 
  hind 
  femur. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  15 
  mm., 
  antennae 
  (missing), 
  ovipositor 
  sheath 
  

   5.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Temples 
  flat 
  to 
  slightly 
  concave, 
  long, 
  sharply 
  receding; 
  occipital 
  

   carina 
  very 
  high, 
  but 
  becoming 
  abruptly 
  lower 
  just 
  before 
  its 
  junction 
  

   with 
  the 
  very 
  high 
  hypostomal 
  carina; 
  vertex 
  concave, 
  top 
  of 
  ocelli 
  

   below 
  superior 
  tangent 
  of 
  eyes; 
  frons 
  with 
  short 
  rugae 
  radiating 
  

   from 
  ocelli, 
  deeply 
  concave 
  below, 
  horns 
  short, 
  stout, 
  not 
  on 
  a 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  base; 
  eyes 
  very 
  large, 
  bulging, 
  very 
  weakly 
  convergent 
  below; 
  

   face 
  medially 
  elevated, 
  with 
  an 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  middle, 
  

   opaque 
  .shagreened, 
  with 
  sparse 
  punctures, 
  obliquely 
  rugose 
  below 
  

   antennae; 
  clypeus 
  subnasute, 
  subpolished, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  coarse 
  punc- 
  

   tures; 
  malar 
  space 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  basal 
  width 
  of 
  mandible, 
  straight 
  

   in 
  front 
  view. 
  Thorax 
  distinctly 
  compressed 
  ; 
  pronotum 
  with 
  humeral 
  

   margin 
  transversely 
  striate, 
  carinately 
  angulated 
  anteriorly, 
  scrobe 
  

   striate; 
  mesoscutum 
  subpolished 
  and 
  rather 
  densely 
  and 
  coarsely 
  

   punctate, 
  lobes 
  low, 
  notaulices 
  deep 
  and 
  narrow; 
  scutellum 
  strongly 
  

   I 
  on 
  vex, 
  polished, 
  very 
  sparsely 
  punctate; 
  mesopleuron 
  subpolished, 
  

   -par.sely 
  punctate 
  below, 
  scrobe 
  polished 
  below 
  and 
  striate 
  above; 
  

   mesosternum 
  more 
  densely 
  punctate; 
  upper 
  division 
  of 
  metapleuron 
  

   coarsely 
  punctate, 
  lower 
  division 
  coarsely 
  obliquely 
  rugosostriate 
  ; 
  

   propfMleum 
  rugose 
  laterally 
  and 
  between 
  carina 
  and 
  apophyses, 
  

   otherwise 
  largely 
  polished, 
  apopl»y.ses 
  very 
  large, 
  long, 
  conical, 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  their 
  distance 
  from 
  basal 
  carina; 
  legs 
  very 
  slender, 
  

   hind 
  femur 
  fully 
  eight 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  deep 
  and 
  reaching 
  beyond 
  apex 
  

   of 
  abdomen; 
  areolet 
  elongate. 
  Abdomen 
  s](!nder, 
  linely 
  shagreened 
  

   and 
  suliopaque 
  beyond 
  first 
  tergite; 
  petiole 
  ahnost 
  exactly 
  .square 
  in 
  

   cioss-section. 
  {)ost[)etiole 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad; 
  second 
  tergite 
  fully 
  

   two-thirds 
  longer 
  than 
  l)road 
  at 
  base; 
  sheath 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  abdomen 
  

   beyond 
  first 
  tergite; 
  ovipositor 
  rather 
  stout, 
  distinctly 
  subsagittate 
  at 
  

   apex. 
  

  

  Black 
  and 
  yellow 
  (see 
  description 
  of 
  color 
  pattern, 
  p. 
  141) 
  ; 
  orbital 
  

   ring 
  nearly 
  interrupted 
  in 
  upper 
  temple 
  and 
  in 
  malar 
  space; 
  two 
  

  

  