ABT. 21. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES CUSHMAN. 9 



The paratype is larger (23 mm.) but differs otherwise only in 

 minor details. 



NESOPIMPLA NARANYAE Ashmead. 



Nesopimpla naranyae Ash mead, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. ISO, 



pi. 13, fig. 3. 

 Itoplectis immigrans Timberlake, Proc. Hawaiian Eut. Soc, vol. 4, 1920, 



p. 271. 



In searching for Timberlake's recently described species in the 

 National Collection I have discovered that it had been previously 

 described from Japan by Ashmead under the above name, Ashmead's 

 type agreeing perfectly with Timberlake's description. In addition 

 to the type female, there are in the National Collection a male from 

 the same source as the type ; another male from the type localitj'^ ; a 

 female and a male collected by Y. Nawa, the female at Gifu and the 

 male without locality but said to have been reared from the pupa of 

 Nonagria innocens; and two males from Hawaii both collected by 

 Ashmead, one at 4,000 feet on Kilauea and the other at 2,500 feet on 

 Olaa Plantation. 



The sixth tergite varies from all red to all black, and there is, in 

 the specimens examined, no such difference between the sexes in color 

 of abdomen as described by Timberlake. 



Nesopiinpla is at least subgenerically distinct from Itoplectis in 

 the strong median and lateral carinae of the propodeum, the lack of 

 basal lobes on the front tarsal claws in the female, and the reflexed 

 apex of the seventh tergite in the male. 



EPHIALTES SANGUINEIPES (Crcaion). 



Pimpla sanguineipes Ckesson, Traus. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, 1872, p. 165. 

 Pimpla liawaiiensis Cameron, Proc. Haw. Eut. Soc, vol. 3, 1915, p. 105. 

 Ephialtcs hawaiietisis Timbeelake, Proc. Haw. Eut. Soc, vol. 4, 1920, p. 267. 

 Ephialtes sanguineipes Cushman, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 1920, p. 335. 



I have compared the large series of Ephialtes hawaiiensis 

 (Cameron) in the National Collection with the equally large series of 

 sanguineipes (Cresson) and am unable to distinguish between them. 

 The larger males of sanguineipes have the hind tibiae entirely red 

 like the female, but many smaller specimens, including a few very 

 small females placed in sanguineipes by myself, have the tibiae more 

 or less distinctly bicolored. I am not at all sure but that san- 

 guineipes (Cresson). punicipes (Cresson), feralis (Cresson), and 

 exareolatus (Ashmead) are variants of the same species. But the 

 last three are all represented in the National Collection by uniques 

 that can be distinguished from the general run of sanguineipes. 



Genus XANTHOPIMPLA Saussure. 



Synonym.— A''eopfj»pZojrfes Viekeck. 



