DESCRIPTIONS OF THIRTEEN NEW AMERICAN AND 

 ASIATIC ICHNEUMON-FLIES, WITH TAXONOMIC 

 NOTES 



By R. A. CiTSHMAN 



Entomologist, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 



This paper includes the descriptions of 13 new species of ichneumon- 

 flies of the families Ichneumonidae and Braconidae from North and 

 South America, China, and Korea, together with a few taxonomic 

 notes. 



Family ICHNEUMONIDAE 



ECTOPIMORPHA LUPERINAE, new species 



Similar in form to E. anceps (Cresson), but with the abdomen less 

 strongly compressed and less attenuate at apex and differing in many 

 other respects, as will appear in the following description. It may 

 be even more closely related to AmMyteJes hiulcus Cresson, which is 

 unknown to me, but from the description the present species differs 

 in having the black of tergites 3 to 5 apical instead of basal and the 

 apex of the abdomen black instead of ferruginous. 



Female. — Length, 12 mm. Head very minutely alutaceous, opaque, 

 and punctate; frons transversely convex and densely punctate above, 

 with short, shallow, polished scrobes below; temples sparsely, finely 

 punctate, convexly convergent, length about equal to short diameter 

 of eye ; postoceliar line a little longer than ocell-ocular line and nearly 

 twice the diameter of an ocellus; eyes divergent below; face twice 

 as broad as long, coarsely but not densely punctate, more sparsely 

 so and more shining medially ; clypeus sculptured like middle of face, 

 barely two-thirds as broad as width of face at antennal foramina, 

 squarely truncate at apex ; labrum exposed and very broadly rounded ; 

 mouth hardly as broad as face at lower margin of eyes; malar space 

 fully one and two-thirds times as long as basal width of mandible; 

 antennae slender, involute, tapering at apex, apparently about two- 

 thirds as long as body, flagellum 47-jointed (45 to 49 in female para- 

 types; anceps averages about 9 less). Thorax sculptured like the 

 head; pronotum rather densely, finely punctate above, striate pos- 

 teriorly below; mesoscutum densely, finely punctate anteriorly, less 

 finely and densely so posteriorly, notauli faint; scutellum polished, 

 sparsely punctate ; mesopleurum and metapleurum with rather coarse, 

 well-separated punctures, speculum very small, polished ; propodeum 

 alutaceous, punctate above, rugulose-punctate laterally, transversely 



No. 2880— Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 79, Art. 14. 



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