ART. 14 THIETEElSr NEW ICHISTEUMOlSr-FLIES CUSHMAN 9 



margin of mandible high and fiangelike; antennae slender, basal 

 flagellar joint about six times as long as thick. Thorax shining; 

 pronotum, scutellum, and oblique impression of mesopleurum pol- 

 ished; mesoscutum coarsely punctate, lower mesopleurum and 

 sternum less distinctly punctate, metapleurum virtually impunc- 

 tate; propodeum with only the two transverse carinae, separated from 

 metapleura by carinae, medially impressed and transversely striate, 

 laterally polished; areolet present, narrow and strongly petiolate; 

 nervulus interstitial, base of second discoidal cell less than half as 

 wide as apex of brachial; abscissula slightly oblique to metacarpella, 

 about half as long as intercubitella ; nervellus nearly perpendicular. 

 Abdomen of normal slenderness, second tergite longer than first, 

 third somewhat less than half as long as second, fourth and fifth sub- 

 equal and somewhat longer than third, sixth subequal to third; ovi- 

 positor half as long as abdomen. 



Head and thorax yellow with black markings as follows : Middle of 

 frons and vertex, upper portion of occiput, and upper posterior or- 

 bits; broad stripes on three lobes of mesoscutum, the lateral ones con- 

 fluent with the triangular prescutellar spot ; oblique mesopleural im- 

 pression ; lateral portion and apex of scutellum, postscutellum, and 

 band in constriction at base of propodeum and metapleura; median 

 band on propodeum; spots on dorsolateral and inner faces of hind 

 coxae, hind trochanter entirely and trochantella dorsally, femur ex- 

 cept whitish apex and reddish band in middle, tibia except reddish 

 stain below, and tarsi; front and middle coxae and femora pale 

 testaceous, these legs otherwise stramineous; hind coxae and tro- 

 chantella below stramineous; abdomen ferruginous; first tergite 

 largely black, the petiole stramineous except at base and a black line 

 on each side; other tcrgites more or less black on dorsal line. 



Male. — Essentially like female. 



Host. — Lepidopteron on sweetpotato. 



Type.—V.^.'^.'M. No. 42899, from Bahia, Brazil 



Described from one specimen of each sex reared by G. Bondar. 



Family BRACONIDAE 

 Genus CAPITONIUS Brulle 



Aulacodes Cresson is synonymized in Dalla Torre's catalogue with 

 C enocoelms with which Co/pitonms is also synonymized. But Vie- 

 reck, in his genotype list, questioned the synonymy of Aulacodes and 

 Capitonius. 



A series of eight females and three males undoubtedly referable to 

 Aulacodes nigriventris Cresson received from the Tropical Plant Re- 

 search Foundation makes certain the synonymy of Aulacodes with 

 Cajntonius. 



