NO. 2031. NEW VARIETIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECK. 381 



PHOTOPTERA ERYTHRONOTA, new species. 



Type-locality. — Salatiga, Java, labeled, ''Ex. Zaratha oramereUa," 

 W. Roepke. 



Type.~C&t. No. 15341, U.S.N.M. 



Female. — Length 4 mm.; differs from the original description of 

 Diar/Jyptidea roepTcci Viereck as follows: Head larger but the ratio 

 of dimensions virtually the same; front finely sculptured laterally, 

 anterior edge of the clypeus slightly arcuate and with inequalities, 

 the latter appearing somewhat like the teeth on the anterior edge 

 of the clypeus in Polytrihax (Foerster) Viereck, first joint of the 

 flagel apparently eight times as long as thick at base, scape and 

 pedicel stramineous, flagel 21-jointed, the first and second joints 

 more or less brown; thorax reddish, tegulse stramineous, fore and 

 hmd legs mostly stramineous with a blackish tinge, hind legs, in 

 color, analagous to the fore and hind legs except in being darker 

 and with blackish stains and in having the tibiae and metatarsi 

 mostly black, the former with a whitish band at the base, wings 

 maculated after the same pattern found in Hemiteles areator Panzer, 

 vnth, m addition, the apical third of the hind wings blackish, the 

 veins and stigma black, areolet vnth sides of equal length, scutel 

 mostly poHshed, propodeum reddish except for blackish stains; 

 abdomen black above except for an apical margin to the first, 

 seventh, and eighth segments which is stramineous, the stramineous 

 portion of the segments as well as an apical margin to the second 

 and third, the apical half of the fourth and the remaining, dorsal 

 segments all pohshed; elsewhere the dorsum of the abdomen is 

 more or less striato-punctate, thyridia rudimentary and repre- 

 sented by small depressions. 



AUotopotype. — Chiefly as in the type but with the anterior edge 

 of the clypeus more as in Polytrihax (Foerster) Viereck, the flagel 

 21-jointed, the front and vertex mostly pohshed as is the dorsulum 

 and the propodeum ; the thorax, propodeum and hmd femora black; 

 abdomen black above, smooth and mostly polished except for the 

 stramineous apex of the first segment and the stramineous base of 

 the second segment. 



One female paratopotype is apparently only two-thirds as long 

 as the type. 



POLYAENIDEA, new genus. 



Type. — Polyaenidea pretiosa, new species. 



Regions of the mesonotum prominent, notauli deep and distinct; 

 spiracles of the first, abdominal segment in the females as near or 

 nearer to the apex than to each other, in the males nearer to each 

 other than to the apex; front armed with two spines as in Polyaenus 

 Cresson. 



Related to Polyaenus Cresson. 



