ART. 14 NEW ICHNEUMON-FLIES CUSHMAN 11 



large, oblique; discociibitus very strongly curved; nervulus slightly 

 postf ureal ; nervellus broken below middle ; legs slender ; longer hind 

 calcarium distinctly less than half as long as basitarsus. Abdomen 

 subopaque granular ; first segment a little more than twice as long as 

 broad at apex, medially longitudinally impressed, spiracles distinctly 

 before middle; ovipositor sheath slender, about as long as second 

 tergite but not extending beyond apex of abdomen. 



Black; frontal orbits, broadening opposite ocelli, yellow; temples 

 pale reddish, black of occiput reaching eyes above; malar space and 

 clypeus yellowish; mandibles and other mouth parts whitish; face 

 brown; scape, pedicel, and basal joints of flagellum yellowish, 

 flagellum brown, paler below. Anterior lateral margin of pro- 

 notum narrowly pale reddish, its humeral angle white; meso-meta- 

 pleural suture reddish; scutellum piceous apically; wings hyaline, 

 stigma and veins brown, costa stramineous, radix and tegulae white ; 

 legs ferruginous, front and middle coxae and trochanters and hind 

 trochanters stramineous, hind tarsi paler than tibiae. Abdomen 

 ferruginous, first segment entirely black, second tergite and apex 

 more or less stained with blackish, plica yellow. 



Male. — Head largely yellow, the black being confined to stem- 

 maticum, upper median part of frons, vertex medially and along 

 occipital carina, and upper part of occiput ; upper posterior orbits 

 pale testaceous. Entire prothorax, broad lateral margins of meso- 

 scutum, mesopleurum except above, mesosternum, and all coxae and 

 trochanters pale yellow; scutellum and postscutellum ferruginous; 

 spot on metapleurum yellowish testaceous. First tergite at apex and 

 apical tergite ferruginous. Genital sheath slender, nearly as long as 

 second tergite, pale testaceous. Otherwise much like female. 



Host. — Metallus rubi Forbes. 



Type locality. — Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. 



ry/?e.— U.S.N.M. No. 44070. 



Paratypes. — Canadian National Collection, Ottawa, Ontario. 



Reviarks. — Two of each sex, the females from the type locality and 

 the males from Vineland, Ontario, reared by W. L. Putnam, May 30 

 to June 7, 1929. 



Both female and male paratj-pes are smaller and have the abdomen 

 more extensively black, the second tergite especially being almost 

 entirely black. 



LATHROLESTES PICTUS, new species 



FeTnale. — Length, 3 mm; antennae 3 mm. Head for the most part 

 minutely shagreened, from above transverse, temples strongly con- 

 vex, not reaching outside tangent of eye ; occipital carina broadly 

 interrupted medially; postocellar and ocellocular lines equal and 

 much longer than diameter of an ocellus ; a small, but deep, longi- 

 tudinal pit between ocelli; eyes subparallel within; clypeus deeply 

 separated from face, broad with apex broadly truncate and fringed 



