ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF GENUS CARDIOCHILES — MAO 241 



from EpipcLschla zelleri Grote ; an unlabeled female ; a female from Al- 

 bany, Ga., April 20, 1938, P. W. Fattig; a male from Ontario, Canada, 

 Jmie, R. C, Osburn; and a male from Guadalajara, Mexico, August 

 2, 1913. 



CARDIOCHILES INSCULPTUS. new species 



Female. — Length about 3 mm. Black; middle part of mandible 

 ciark red ; foreleg yellowish brown, coxa, trochanter, and bas;il half of 

 femur black, last three tarsal segments blackish ; middle leg yellowish 

 brown, coxa, trochanter and basal part of femur black, apical half of 

 basi tarsus and all of the following tarsal segments blackish; hind leg 

 yellowish brown, coxa and trochanter black, apex of tibia and tarsus 

 blackish. Antennae of specimens in type series incomplete; first 

 flagellar segment and scape about equal ; eye closely hairy ; ocelli ele- 

 vated; vertex smooth, polished; frons smooth, polished, and with a 

 weak median longitudinal carina ; face about twice as wide as long, 

 smooth, polished, with a short median ridge above; clypeus smooth, 

 polished, and with apical margin notched medially; temple slightly 

 broader than the eye ; galea short. Lateral face of pronotum striate 

 medially on its anterior half; notaulices finely foveolate, meeting in 

 a rather broad angle; mesopleuron smooth, polished, upper groove 

 foveolate, lower groove completely, finely foveolate, posterior groove 

 foveolate, with a smooth groove from the middle leading to the lower 

 groove; metapleuron rugose on posterior section, smooth and polished 

 on anterior section; propodeum rugose, areola and spiracular areas 

 delimited, costulae obsolete. First abscissa of radius longer and 

 thicker than that of basal vein ; fourth abscissa of cubitus 1.50 times as 

 long as third; recurrent vein slightly shorter than second abscissa of 

 cubitus; nervulus postf ureal by about half its own length; interanal 

 vein represented by a pigmented line. Hind tibia not thickened apical- 

 ly and without a flaring process ; inner spur of middle tibia about 0.75 

 as long as basitarsus, second and fifth tarsal segments equal; inner 

 spur of hind tibia about 0.67 as long as basitarsus, basitarsus shorter 

 than the next three tarsal segments combined, second tarsal segment 

 longer than the fifth, third and fifth segments about equal ; hind tarsal 

 claws pectinate. First abdominal suture extending obliquely forward 

 to the margin ; second tergite slightly shorter than third ; hypopygium 

 not extending as far as apex of last tergite, about as long as the first 

 three tergites combined, in profile pointed, its median ventral line fold- 

 ed longitudinally. Ovipositor sheath spatulate, pubescent, about as 

 long as the hypopygum (pi. 5, fig. 23) . 



Male. — Essentially similar to the female. 



ry;?e.— U.S.N.M.No. 58287. 



Type locality. — Beaufort, N. C. 



Described from two females and one male from the type locality 

 labeled "with potato tuberworm, June 25. 1942, C. F. Stahl, TCA 817." 



