ART. 4. 



NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES CUSHMAN. 



areolet pentagonal in position, lower end of second recurrent much 

 farther from base of wing than its upper end, subdiscoideus intersti- 

 tial with first recurrent, second discoidal cell therefore pointed at 

 base, nervulus postf ureal ; hind wing with abscissula very short and 

 forming a very widely obtuse angle with the intercubutus, apical 

 abscissa of radiella wanting, nervellus slightly reclivous and curved, 

 but not broken, the discoidella wanting, mediella wanting basally. 

 Abdomen with first three tergites occupying practically the entire 

 dorsal surface, each with a transverse furrow, those of the first two 

 behind middle, deep and crenulate, that of the third shallow and 

 smooth and before the middle ; first nearly or quite as broad at apex 

 as long, its sides divergent from base to apex, median carinae con- 



FiG. 2. 



-Andieotropcs minutes, new species : a. Wings, b. Abdomen op female, dor- 

 sal VIEW. 



verging posteriorly and extending to transverse furrow; second 

 tergite nearly as long as first, much broader at apex than long ; third 

 tergite slightly longer than second, its lateral and apical margins 

 forming an almost continuous curve ; ovipositor exserted, short. 

 Genotype. — Anurotropus minutus^ new species. 



ANUROTROPUS MINUTUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 2,5 mm. ; antennae 1.5 mm. 



Head shining, weakly punctate, face more densely and strongly so ; 

 face nearly three times as wide as long medially ; clypeus distinctly 

 separated; malar space much longer than basal width of mandible; 

 antennae 16-jointed, first joints of flagellum more than three times as 

 long as thick at apex, others decreasing in length toward apex, the sub- 

 apical ones little more than a third as long as first. Thorax shining, 

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