NO. 1942. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIEREOE. 587 



brown, elsewhere dark brown, spurs whitish, hind metatarsus whitish 

 at base, elsewhere brown as are the other hind tarsi; dorsal abdominal 

 segments almost entirely black, thyridia pale, venter mostly dark 

 brown; ovipositor when exserted a little longer than the second 

 segment. 



Labeled, "Reared from Eupithecia miserulata, Aug. 27, 1910; 

 Chas. R. Ely." 



Allotopotype. — Essentially as in the type. 



Labeled the same as the type excepting the date, which is Sept. 

 10, 1910. 



A paratopotype is dated Sept. 8, 1910. 



A paratype is labeled, "Stafford, Conn., Aug. 24, 1905; Solidago, 

 W. E. Britton." 



The cocoon is brownish at both ends with a rather whitish girdle 

 and measures 5 by 2 mm. 



CREMASTIDEA, new subgenus. 



Type. — Cremastus (Cremastidea) chinensis, new species. 



Compared with Cremastus Gravenhorst as represented by Cremas- 

 tus hellicosus Gravenhorst^ this genus differs chiefly in the malar 

 space being virtually crowded out by the eye and by the porpodeum 

 overlapping the hind coxae to the middle or a little beyond the middle 

 of the latter. 



CREMASTUS (CREMASTIDEA) CHINENSIS, new species. 



Type-locality. — Soochow, China. 



Type.—C&t. No. 15027, U.S.N.M. 



Male. — Length 9 mm.; yellowish stramineous; mandibles with 

 blackish tips, mterocellar area blackish; oceUi almost equidistant 

 from each other, the lateral ocelli nearer to the anterior ocellus than 

 to each other and almost impinging on the eye margin; flagel brown- 

 ish, first joint distinctly longer than the second; tibiae more or less 

 darkened with brownish stains; basal area almost forming an equi- 

 lateral triangle, areola pentagonal, almost half as long as the propo- 

 deum and apparently a little longer than the petiolarea; petiole with 

 a shallow fossa on each side near the postpetiole; second dorsal seg- 

 ment fhiely, longitudinally sculptured, the other dorsal segments 

 more or less finely, indefuiitely sculptured; the sutures between the 

 first and second segments blackish. 



Labeled, "from N. Gist Gee." 



Allotype. — Length 8 mm.; oceUocular line nearly half as long as 

 the shortest diameter of the lateral ocellus; malar space nearly as 

 long as the first joint of the flagel is thick at base; otherwise essentially 

 as in the type. 



Labeled, "from Naraga diffusa?, Konosu Saitama, Japan; T. 

 Fukai collector." 



