AUT. 20. ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF TRIBE PANISCINI CUSHMAN. 



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NEPHOPHELTES JAPONICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 17 mm.; antennae 18 mm. 



Head smooth, practically impunctate; temples slightly wider than 

 eyes; face barely wider than frons, slightly wider than greatest 

 diameter of eye; frons with a median pit-like impression, inner 

 orbits not carinately ridged, but with a minute tubercle opposite 

 upper margin of antennal foramina; diameter of lateral ocellus 



Fig. 6.— NEPHOPHELTES JAPONICUS CUSHMAN, FEMALE. 



shghtly longer than post-ocellar line, but scarcely as long as ocell- 

 ocular line; malar space two-thirds as long as basal width of man- 

 dible; clypeus broadly rounded and slightly prominent at apex, not 

 separated from face; mandibles stout not constricted; apical trun- 

 cation of scape weakly oblique; first joint of flagellum little more 

 than half longer than second. Thorax smooth, practically impunc- 

 tate; notauli obsolescent; tran verse impression of pronotum strong; 

 scutellum convex, not elevated; mesopleurum with lower posterior 



