ART. 4. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES CUSHMAN. 13 



Head antero-posteriorly very thin with the temples very strongly 

 receding and postvertex nearly perpendicular from ocelli to occipital 

 carina; face and frons finely granularly opaque with obscure punc- 

 tures, the former slightly narrowing below, flattened, and clothed 

 with rather long, white pubescence; clypeus broadly subtruncate at 

 apex ; labrum triangularly exserted, the apical angle notched, malar 

 space barely a third as long as basal width of mandible ; eyes rather 

 strongly emarginate within ; mandibles much longer than wide at base, 

 where they are nearly twice as wide as at apex, upper tooth larger and 

 slightly longer than lower; antennae rather stout, scape not obliquely 

 truncate at apex ; diameter of lateral ocellus a half longer than ocell- 

 ocular line and subequal to postocellar line. Thorax opaque, even 

 the speculum shagreened, clothed with conspicuous white hair, meso- 

 scutum, scutellum, lower mesopleura and sternum and metapleura 

 also more or less punctate, mesoscutum most strongly so; lower 

 angle of pronotum and upper portion of mesopleurum rugulose, 

 punctiform fovea very deep and conspicuous; propodeum basally 

 and laterally sculptured like metapleurum ; medially slightly concave 

 and transversely rugulose, basal carina and lateral portion of apical 

 carina distinct, spiracle about twice as long as wide ; legs, especially 

 hind femur, rather stout, hind tibia and tarsus spiny, longer cal- 

 carium more than two-thirds as long as basitarsus, last two tarsal 

 joints equal in length ; stigma and radial cell narrow lanceolate, the 

 radius hardly angulate, areolet petiolate with recurrent beyond 

 middle, nervulus strongly postfurcal, subdiscoideus at about middle 

 of postnervulus ; abscissula and intercubitella subequal, nervellus 

 reclivous unbroken. Abdomen compressed from base of third seg- 

 gent; first tergite with postpetiole about twice as wide as petiole, 

 in side view slightly decurved, spiracles at apical two-fifths, petiole 

 foveate laterally, postpetiole ridged but not distinctly carinate 

 laterally ; spiracles of second tergite at the middle, gastrocoeli nearly 

 circular and shortly removed from base ; ovipositor scarcely exserted. 



Black, with abdomen largely ferruginous; face, cheeks, clypeus, 

 mouth parts, frontal orbits except narrow interruption above an- 

 tennae, scape and pedicel beneath, tegulae, humeral angle of pro- 

 notum, and a spot beneath hind wing yellow ; flagellum black ; front 

 and middle legs stramineous with the femora and apices of the 

 tibiae slightly testaceous ; hind coxa black at base and above, ferru- 

 ginous beneath, trochanter black at base, otherwise stramineous, 

 femur ferruginous, tibia black with a broad whitish band between 

 middle and base, reddish below toward apex, calcaria white, tarsus 

 black; first tergite except apex and stains on apical tergite black. 



Type locality. — Veitch, Virginia, 



Type.— C?ii. No. 25922, U.S,N.M. 



One female taken by William Middleton. 



