NO. 1942. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECE. 581 



I tarsi and in at least half of the third, dorsal, abdominal segment being 

 rather coarsely sculptured. 



In the t^^pe there are blackish tips to the hind femora and the 

 dorsum of the abdomen beyond the first segment is mostly tinged 

 with black, wliile in the paratopotype these parts are mostly reddish. 



Cocoons solitary and yellowish. Received from Prof. R. W. 

 Harned, Agricultural College, Mississippi, 



Named for Prof, R. W. Harned, 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) OXYACANTHOIDIS, new species. 



Type-locality. — Maine, 



Type.— C&t. No. 15014, U.S,N.M, 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm.; facial line shorter than the transfacial 

 line; antennge blackish throughout, all joints of the flagel distinctly 

 more than twice as long as thick; pleurae not separated from the 

 mesosternum by a carinate fold; scutel mostly impunctate, the 

 interstices smooth and polished, the punctures small and indistinct, 

 tegulse blackish; thorax not depressed, vertical axis apparently 

 greater than the transverse axis; wings with a brownish tinge, 

 stigma and costa blackish, other veins stramineous with a dark tinge; 

 coxae blackish at base, more or less stramineous to brownish beneath, 

 rest of legs mostly stramineous, onychii blackish; propodeum 

 coarsely sculptured, the longitudinal carina almost lost among the 

 rugae; abdomen longer than the thorax; first dorsal plate wider at 

 apex than at base and wider at apex than the second plate is long 

 down the middle; second dorsal plate sculptured throughout, not 

 distinctly depressed along the apical margin; third dorsal segment 

 indistinctly sculptured to beyond the middle. 



Labeled^ "Me. Exp. Sta. Lot. 1478, June 4, 1912." 



Paratypes are from New Haven, where the writer collected them 

 May 14, 1904, on flowers of Ribes oxyacanthoides. 



This species is related to A. (Protapanteles) delicatus Howard, from 

 which it differs in the length of the abdomen, more shining face and 

 dark mouth, 



ROGAS LAPHYGM.^, new species. 



Type-locality. — Brownsville, Texas, 



Type.— Cat. No. 15012, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — ^Length, 4 mm. ; has characters in common with R. nolo- 

 phanse Ashmead, but can be distinguished from that species by the 

 hardly emarginate eyes, by the greatest diameter of the lateral ocelli 

 being apparently shorter than the ocellocular line, by the 35-jointed 

 antennae, which are mostly brown or brownish, by the second abscissa 

 of the radius being hardly longer than the first transverse cubitus, 

 by having only the basal half of third dorsal abdominal segment stri- 

 ated and the fourth not at all striated. 



