NO. 1920. NEW BEES AND ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECK. 629 



TRIASPIS VESTITICIDA, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2 iiiiii.; blnck, dypeus rather coarsely but 

 indefiiiitely sculptured; mandibles testaceous, tipj)e<l with castaneous; 

 scape somewhat darker than the mandibles but similarly colored; 

 pedicel brow^nish, flagel ^v^th its firet three joints mostly brownish 

 the remaining joints black or blackish, the joints near the apex almost 

 as short as thick; tcgulae blackish; basal two-tliirds of the costa yel- 

 lowish, rest of costa brownish as is the stigma, remaining veins pale 

 stramineous, almost colorless; second abscissa of the bubitis virtu- 

 ally as long as the first abscissa of the radius; legs, including fore 

 coxse mostly stramineous, mid and hind cox£e mostly brownish; 

 propodeum mostly smooth and almost polished, the dorsal aspect 

 separated from the posterior aspect by a transverse angulated carina; 

 posterior aspect more or less divided into areolaB by oblique carinas; 

 anterior aspect of first segment with a prominent, rather transverse 

 carina on each side between the anterior aspect and the rest of the 

 segment, the same carina being continued down the segment to the 

 apex as one of the stria?; first and second segments striate, most of 

 the striae extending to the apex of the segments; tliird striate later- 

 ally, smooth and highly polished medially; apical edge of tliird 

 segment sinuate and bordered by a furrow^; ovipositor prominent, the 

 exerted portion longer than the abdomen; otherwise quite as in the 

 genotype. 



Type-locality. — Department of Piura, Peru. 



Type.— C&t. No. 14732, U.S.N.IM. 



Allotopotype. — DiiTers from the type chiefly in the 18-jointed 

 flagel which is blacldsh thi'oughout; in the blacldsh scape and pedicel, 

 in the joints near the apex being distinctly longer than thick; in the 

 basal two-tliirds of the costa being brownish; in the darker legs, the 

 fore coxa) being brownish and the hind tibiae and tarsi infuscated. 



Paratopotypes show that the costa in the female may be more or 

 less yeUo\nsh basally, that the male antennae may be colored as in 

 the female, and that the males may be only 1.5 mm. long. 



Labeled, "roared from Anthonomus vestitus, October and November, 

 1910, June, 1911, No. 795°36; reared from infested squares and new 

 bolls, No. 795." All from the type locahty. 



TRIASPIS VESTITICIDA var. MINUTISSIMUS, new variety. 



Female. — Length, 1.25 mm.; difTei-s from Triaspis vestiticula 

 Viereck apparently only in the sculjitureless third segment in the 

 mostly blackish legs, and smaller average size. 



Type-locality. — Department of Piura, Peru. 



Type.—C&t. No. 14733, U.S.N.M. 



Allotype. — Essentially as in the type. 



