NO. 1888. NEW ICHNEUMO\-FLIES—VIERECK. 147 



under Quaintance No. 7128, Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Dept. Agriculture. 



One female paratopotype differs in being but 2 mm. long and in 

 being less developed, especially in sculpture. 



Family ICHNEUMONID/E. 

 AENOPLEGIMORPHA new genus. 



Related to Aenoplex (Foerster) iVshmead, from wliich it may be 

 distinguished by the bidenticulatc anterior edge of the clypeus and 

 by the petiolate abdomen, the first segment being somewhat more 

 than tliree times as long as wide at apex, w^th prominently elevated 

 spiracles and possessed of two dorsal, parallel, longitudinal carinas 

 and by the promment thyridia at the base of the second segment. 

 Has the appearance of a Phygadeuonine with an open, Hemiteline 

 areolet. 



Type. — Aenoplegimorpha phytonomi, new species. 



AENOPLEGIMORPHA PHYTONOMI, new species. 



Male. — Length, 4.5 mm. Black and shining; face sparsely, indis- 

 tinctly punctured, clypeus almost impunctate; flagel 20-jointed; 

 region of malar line sculptured; mandibles black throughout, palpi 

 blackish; notauli extending approximate!}^ one-fourth tlie distance 

 from the anterior to the posterior margin; dorsulum indistinctly 

 punctured; tegulse blackish, fore and midcoxse blackish at base, 

 becoming stramineous apically; distal trochanters, femora, tibiae, 

 and metatarsi of fore and midlegs more or less stramineous; rest of 

 tarsi infuscated, as are the apical half of hind femora and base and 

 apex of liind tibiae; rest of hind femora reddish, remainder of hind 

 tibiae stramineous, hind coxae entirely black; stigma blackish, whitish 

 at base; propodeum distinctly areolated, the areas before the apical 

 transverse carina smooth and polished, the areas beyond sculptured; 

 second segment black and striate except apical fifth and the thyridia, 

 which are rather smooth and reddish; third segment virtually sculp- 

 tureless, reddish; fourth segment reddish at base; rest of dorsum of 

 abdomen black. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14325, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Iloytsville, Utah. Reared from Phytonomus muri- 

 nufi, September 4, 1911, by T. H. Parks under Webster No. 5G09, 

 Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. 



BRACHIXIPHOSOMA new genus. 



Related to Eiphosoma Cresson, from which it <HlTers chiefly in 

 having the malar line sliorter than the mandibles are wide at base 

 and in the propodeum extenthng at least to the apex of the basal 

 third of the hind coxa?. 



Type. — Eiphosoma pyralidis Ashmead. 



