ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF GENUS CARDIOCHILES — MAO 257 



hypopygiuni more produced; in color it differs especially in having 

 the thorax bhick, 



CARDIOCHILES THERBERIAE Rohwer 



Cardiochiles therbcriac Rohwer, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 57, pp. 226-227, 1920 

 (female). 



Female. — ^Length 5.5 nini. Head black; incomplete orbital mark- 

 ings,, lower part of face, clypeus, lower end of cheek, anterior surface 

 of scape, and apical part of pedicel, brownish yellowish; thorax 

 ferruginous; wings strongly fuliginous, costa and stigma brownish 

 black; foreleg brownish yellow, with coxa, trochanter, and femur 

 basall}^, black; middle leg black, apex of femur, basal two-thirds of 

 tibia, and tarsus brownish yellow; hind leg black or blackish, tibia 

 dark brown on basal half; spurs of fore and middle tibiae ferruginous, 

 and of hind tibia dark ferruginous ; abdomen black, its first and sec- 

 ond tergites ferruginous medially. Antenna 33-segmented in type; 

 eye hairy; ocelli elevated; vertex smooth, polished, and flat; frons 

 smooth and polished, and with a low median longitudijial keel; face 

 slightly less than twice as wide as long, smooth and shining; clypeus 

 smooth, polished, its apical margin notched at the middle; temple 

 slightly wider than eye in dorsal view; galea short. Median lower 

 portion of lateral face of pronotum slightly wrinkled; median lobe of 

 mesoscutum without a longitudinal depression each side of median 

 line; notaulices sharply impressed, finely foveolate; mesopleuron 

 smooth, polished, upper groove smooth, lower groove incompletely and 

 weakly foveolate, posterior groove foveolate and with a distinct smooth 

 groove from its middle to the lower groove; metapleuron smooth 

 except ventroposterior corner of posterior portion which is rugose; 

 in-opodeum rugose, the carinae prominent, areas sharply delimited. 

 First abscissa of radius about 1.50 times as long as that of basal vein ; 

 tiiird abscissa of cubitus slightly shorter than fourth; second abscissa 

 of cubitus about 1.50 times as long as recurrent vein; recurrent vein 

 about one-third as long as second abscissa of basal vain ; nervulus post- 

 f ureal by about half of its length ; first abscissa of submedius shorter 

 tliaii second; interanal vein represented by a pigmented line. Second 

 segment of fore tarsus shorter than fifth; apex of hind tibia not ex- 

 panded into a flaring process; inner spur of middle tibia longer than 

 basi tarsus; second and fifth segments of middle tarsus about equal; 

 inner spur of hind tibia about 0.75 as long as basitarsus, basitarsus 

 shorter than the last four tarsal segments combined, second tarsal seg- 

 ment slightly longer than fifth; hind tarsal claws pectinate. First 

 abdominal suture extending obliquely forward laterally ; second tergite 

 shorter than third; hypopygium slightly shorter than first tergite, its 

 median ventral line folded; ovipositor sheath about 0.33 as long as 

 tiie abdomen and pubescent (pl. 5. fig. 39). 



