NO. 1942. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECE. 593 



and by the inner margins of the eyes in both sexes being nearly 

 parallel and far removed from the lateral ocelli. 



To this genus very likely belong Pristomerus cohradensis Brues 

 and P. pacijicus Cresson. 



(PRISTOMERUS) NEOPRISTOMERUS APPALACHIANTJS var. DORSOCASTANEUS Viereck. 



Brownsville, Texas. 



Labeled, "Webster No. 6446, reared from Laphygma frugiperda; 

 R. A. Vickery, collector." 



PIMPLA (PIMPLA) PARNARiE, new species. 



Type-locality. — Japan. 



Type.— Cs.t. No. 15037, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — ^Length 16 mm.; related to P. pluto Ashmead, from which 

 it differs especially in the metapleiirae not being striate throughout, 

 in the first, dorsal, abdominal segment not being carinate laterally, 

 but rounded off, and in the dorsal aspect being rounded off where it 

 joins the anterior aspect and not developed into a node on each side. 



Labeled, "Host Parnara guttatus Burm. No. 3; S. I. Kuwana." 



POLYCYRTUS COCKERELL^, new species. 



Type-locality. — Quirigua, Guatemala. 



Type.—Q'd,t. No. 15038, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — ^Length 12.5 mm.; appears to be related to Polycyrtus 

 fulvipes Cameron, as described and figured in Cameron's Biologia 

 Centrali Americana article, from which it may be known by the 

 following differences: Antennss apparently as long as the body; 

 the joints of the flagel beyond the annulus more or less faceted, the 

 facets rather bare, elsewhere the antennae are quite generally hairy; 

 front mostly black, mandibles mostly yellowish or luteous; head 

 almost sculp tureless; thorax and propodeum almost sculp tureless; 

 pronotum blackish, with pale margins, with a stramineous lamina on 

 the anterior inferior edge and a longitudinal carina between the 

 dorsal and lateral aspects of the pronotum; mesonotum black except 

 for the ridges between it and the scutel, which are yello^vish; scutel 

 black, most of sides and posterior edge yellowish; true metanotum 

 blackish on each side; propodeum mostly black between base and 

 basal transverse carina; rest of thorax and propodeum stramineous; 

 tegulse luteous and stramineous; wings almost colorless, with a 

 brownish tinge, stigma and veins blackish; fore coxsb yellowish, 

 rest of legs mostly of a darker stramineous than the thorax except 

 the onychii which are blackish, the tarsi of fore and mid legs which 

 are brownish, the hind trochanters and femora which are blackish 

 above, the hmd tibiae which are ochreous, and the hind tarsi whicii are 

 yellowish; abdomen dorsally mostly black, with pale apical and 

 lateral margins, the second dorsal segment also pale at base. 



Named for Mrs. W. P. Cockerell, who collected the type. 

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