no.1754. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON FLIES VIERECK. 383 



subtruncate, almost arcuate, the lateral suture represented only by a 

 slight difference in sculpture, the spiracle indistinct, almosl obsolete, 

 mandibles yellow excepting the teeth, which are castaneous, palpi 

 yellow, scape dark brown with pale edge at apex, rest of antenna' 

 blackish, second joint of flagel two-thirds as long as the first ; tegulae, 

 base of wings, trochanters of anterior and middle legs, anterior fem- 

 ora at tip, anterior tibiae externally, middle tibiae externally, and an- 

 terior and middle metatarsi yellow or yellowish, rest of anterior and 

 middle legs honey color, more or less tinted with brownish, except- 

 ing the femora, which are inclined to reddish, anterior coxae yellow, 

 brownish at base, middle coxa 1 brownish, posterior coxae mostly 

 blackish, partly reddish brown, posterior trochanters blackish, their 

 femora reddish, their tibiae testaceous with a subbasal fuscous band 

 as wide as the tibia is thick at base, their tarsi testaceous, paler 

 than the tibiae, spurs whitish or honey color, claws brown, areolet 

 petiolate; (fig. 3) abdomen reddish except the narrow 

 portion of petiole which is blackish, second dorsal seg- 

 ment with indistinct thyridia that adjoin the lateral 

 edge and are one-eighth the distance from the base and 

 are nearly one-fourth as wide as the segment is at base, 

 spiracles of this segment nearly adjoining the lateral FlG - 3 - Are °- 



1 1-j ;1 1 1 l • 1 11 l- i PETIOLAREA 



margin and a little beyond the middle, plica honey in limnerium 

 color to testaceous, sheaths of the ovipositor blackish, paeorgyi<e. 

 clavate, ovipositor hidden when at rest, narrow portion of dorsum 

 of petiole not grooved on the sides. 



Male. — Very like the female; middle coxa' honey color, hind tro- 

 chanters more or less testaceous, clypeus anteriorly testaceous, areo- 

 petiolarea not distinctly transversely rugose. 



Type.— Cat. X<». 13035, U.S.XAi/ 



Type-locality. -Massachusetts. (dip. Moth Lab. 1471 A., 1471 B., 

 2619 A.) 



As shown by a paratopotype, the middle coxa' may be blackish, the 

 basal fuscous band of hind tibia* almost missing, ami the rugae of 

 areopetiolarea not be arranged so as to make it appear that tin 1 

 areola, is separated from the petiolarea. 



Subgenus HYPOSOTER Fcerster. 



Type. Limnerium (Hyposoter) parorgyia Viereck. 



Subgenus ANILASTUS Fcerster. 



Ti/jH . ( 'ampopb x rapax ( rravenhorst . 



ICHNEUMON (CRATICHNEUMON; BURKEI, new species. 



Description. — In color this agrees with the description given for 

 /. sublatus, var." excepting in the metathorax which in our species 

 is entirely black behird. 



aTrans. Amer. Km. Soc, vol. 6, L877, p. 137. 



