DESC^RIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW GENERA AND TWENTY-SIX 

 NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES. 



By II. L. ^"lERECK, 

 Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



The genera and species here treated are reared parasites of which, 

 in many cases, names are desired for use in connection with papers on 

 their economy that are to be pubHshed in the near future. 



Family BRACONID^. 



APANTELES (APANTELES) FUMIFERANiE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm. Rehited to A. edwardsii Riley, from 

 wliich it differs in the sides of the second dorsal plate being nearly 

 parallel and shorter than the same plate is long down the middle; in 

 the reddish-stramineous femora, the liind pair of which is tipped with 

 fuscous; in the liind tibiae being reddish-stramineous except at base 

 and apex; in the blackish stigma; in the comparatively shorter 

 ovipositor; in the black tegulse and in other less important particu- 

 lars. 



Male. — Sufficiently similar to the female to be readih' associated 

 therewith. 



Type—Cat. No. 14309, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Montcalm, Quebec, Canada. 



Specimens that emerged June 18, 1911, at Cliicoutimi, Quebec, 

 Canada, and June 20, 1911, at the type-locality, constituting the type 

 and paratypes, were received b}" the Bureau of Entomology, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, from Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, who 

 reports this species as a parasite of the spruce budworm Tortrix 

 fumiferana. 



APANTELES (APANTELES) PRODENIiE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 mm. Head apparently wider than long; black; 

 antennae mostly dark brown, palpi pale, legs mostl}' stramineous, all 

 coxa> black, trochantei-s dark, hind tarsi and apex of hind tibia' in- 

 fuscated, tegulfe blackish; scutel dullish, sparsely punctured; pro])o- 

 deum with five or six areas, the areola almost quadrate; first abdom- 



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