NEW ICHNEUMON-FLIES — CUSHMAN 363 



it is immediately distinguishable by its red head and red, not yel- 

 lowish, scntellum and abdomen. 



Female.— Length 8 mm., antenna 6 mm., ovipositor sheath 8 mm. 

 Head and thorax polished, unsculptured, and glabrous, except that 

 the face is sparsely and the propodeum very sparsely hairy and the 

 elypeus bears several long hairs; temple strongly convex but not 

 reaching outside tangent of eye; eyes slightly convergent below and 

 shallowly emarginate opposite antennae ; face as long as broad, with 

 a low, median, longitudinal elevation; malar space very short, 

 antenna 30-jointed. 



Thorax stout; prescutum medially impressed; notaulices weakly 

 defined on disk of mesoscutum; carinae limiting scutellar fovea 

 obsolete ; propodeum without trace of carinae. 



Abdomen broad, finely and not densely punctate, tergal tubercles 

 prominent, the impressions defining them posteriorly extending 

 almost across tergites; tergite 1 hardly as long as broad, somewhat 

 tumid, without carinae beyond the very short anterior basin ; tergite 

 2 as long as broad at base, with deep, transverse gastrocoeli; 

 ovipositor sheath with short hair. 



Ferruginous; a small spot on each side of apex of propodemn, 

 narrow apical margins of tergites 2-5, more or less broadly inter- 

 rupted medially, and last two tergites black; antenna black, scape 

 and pedicel partly pale in front; palpi and legs whitish, coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora posteriorly brownish black, as are also the 

 base and apex of the hind tibia; apical joints of tarsi and apices of 

 other Joints more or less deeply brown; wings hyaline, Venetian 

 black; ovipositor sheath black, 



jjost. — Pectinophora gossypisUa (Saunders). 



Type locality. — Boqueron, Puerto Kico. 



Holotype and paratype.—\J.S:^.lsL No. 53495. 



Two females reared May 20, 1938, by K. A. Bartlett under Puerto* 

 Rico No. 1991. 



Genus TROMATOBIA Foerster 



TROMATOBIA LATERALIS (Cresson), new combination 



C'listopyffa? lateralis Ckesson, Proc. Eiit. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 4, p. 34, 1865. 

 Ephialtes cressonii Dewitz, Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 25, p. 205, pi. 5, fig. 9, 

 1881. 

 This West Indian species is represented by specimens from both 

 Puerto Rico and Cuba as well as by a female taken by P. W. Fattig 

 at Atlanta, Ga., April 14, 1929. One of each sex was reared from a 

 spider egg-cocoon from Lares, Puerto Rico, September 8, 1921, by 

 G. N. Wolcott. 



