Ni). 1020. XEW liEES AND ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECK. 619 



ture but confluent in ever}' way; mandibles mostly stramineous, 

 blackish at base, castaneous at apex; scape stramineous tinged with 

 brown, rest of antenna) dark brown to blacldsh; llagel 14-jointed, 

 most of the joints distinctly longer than tliick, the tenth and eleventh 

 apparently thicker than long; palpi pale; most of pronotum, all of 

 mesonotum, and most of mesoplcuraj rather reildish stramineous; 

 rest of thorax mostly black; tegulre including the veins rather 

 stramineous, the rest of the fore wings brownish, with brownish 

 veins and blackish stigma; fore legs mostl}' stramineous, mid legs 

 similarly colored to the fore legs but with their femora tinged with 

 brown, hind legs ^vith their coxoe brownish, tlieir trochanters yel- 

 lowish, their femora mostly dark brownish, their tibias with the 

 apical half mostly dark brown, the rest yello^vish except for a sub- 

 basal brownish macula, their tarsi mostly yellowish except the apical 

 joint, which is dark brown; propodeum black with its apical carina 

 quadrangular, the lateral processes not prominent; carapace black, 

 with a dotlike area just below the apex. 



Type-locality. — Pernambuco, Bonito Province, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14713, U.S.N.M. 



Allotopotype. — Essentially as in the type except the flagel, which is 

 IS-jointed, with all the joints longer than thick; thorax black except 

 the mesonotum, which is reddish anteriorly and laterally on the 

 anterior half; carapace with a transversely oval foramen at apex. 



Labeled, No. 576. A. Koebele, February, 1883. 



CHELONUS (CHELONELLA) TOWNSENDI, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.5 mm.; black and shinmg; sides of the front 

 with arcuate striae, the striated portion bounded above by a caiina; 

 a well-marked furrow between the upper edge of the clyi>eus and the 

 face; front with a prominent almost carma like, longitudinal, median 

 welt extending upward from a little below a pomt on a lino \vith the 

 lower edge of the antennal scrobes; scape castaneous, nearly as long 

 as the first and second flagellar joints combined; i)odical brownish; 

 flagel 14-jointed, first five joints mostly brownish, the remaining 

 joints blackish to black, all joints longer than tliick; tegula> rather 

 stramineous; fo rowings brownish, with blackish veins, stigma and 

 parastigma, the basal third of the forewings, however, are rather yel- 

 lowish or stramineous with the veins of the same i)ortion stramineous; 

 legs and apical foramen of the carai>aco ossentiall}' as in Chdonus 

 szepligetii Viereck; carapace rather cylmdrical. 



Type-locality. — Department of Piura, Peru. 



Type.— Cat. No. 14714, U.S.X.M. 



CoUected by C. H. T. Townsend and labeled, No. 795°3g. 



Named for Mr. C. IT. T. Townsend. 



