NO. 1942. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECK. 577 



the front, scapulae smoother; sides of the pronotum and mesopleurse 

 striated as in the fossa between the mesonotum and scutel and the 

 scutel itself at apex; wings transparent, brownish with dark browii to 

 blackish stigma and veins, tegulae stramineous; legs, including coxse 

 and trochanters, tramineous to brownish tramineous; propodeum 

 more or less striate or granular or both, basal area transversely oblong, 

 first and second pleural areae confluent, tliird lateral and third pleural 

 arege confluent; metapleurse roughened, not carinate; petiole planate, 

 dull, finely sculptured, bounded on each side by a carina that forms 

 the upper boundary of a shallow parallel sided furrow the lower, 

 carinate boundary of which termmates at the spiracles, beyond which 

 it reappears as the lateral margin of the postpetiole, the other carinas 

 continued on the postpetiole, where they converge and become lost 

 among the striae of the lateral thirds of the postpetiole; basal half of 

 middle third of postpetiole scupltured like the petiole; rest of post- 

 petiole longitudinally striate; rest of abdomen higlily polished, dark 

 brownish and blackish; exserted portion of ovipositor hardly as long as 

 the petiole and brownish stramineous, sheaths of ovipositor attenuated 

 and dark bro%vn. 



Labeled, "May 11, 1912, P. R. Myers collector." 



THAUMATOTYPIDEA, new genus. 



Type of the genus. — Cremnodes tuherculatus Ashmead. 



This genus is erected for the wingless species of the Myersiidae 

 placed in the genus Thaumutotypus (Foerster) Brischke by E. H. 

 Strickland.^ 



THAUMATOTYPUS (Foerster) Brischke. 



Thaumatotypus Foerster, Verh. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinland, vol. 25, 

 1868, p. 172. No species. — Brischke, Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Danzig, new eer., 

 vol. 5, 1881, pt. 1, p. 349. 



Type of the genus. — Thaumatotypus femoralis Brischke, first species 

 included. 



This genus is too briefly described to make its position certain. It 

 may prove to belong to the Myersiidae. 



Family BRACONID^. 

 BUCCULATRIPLEX, new genus. 



Type of the genus. — Bracon hucculatricis Ashmead. 



Related to Heterogamus Wesmael, from which it dift'ers especially 

 in the Polystenidea-like abdomen, there being only four abdominal 

 segments visible dorsally, in the second segment being nearly twice 

 as long as the first and distinctly longer than the following segments 



» Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 5, 1912, pp. 114, 117, 139. 

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