New and little known Strepsiptera from Poland 



by 

 Dr. A. OGLOBLIN. 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. Noskiewicz (Lwów) I have 

 obtained some materials on Strepsiptera, though consisting of only 

 two parasitized bees and of one wasp, it is highly interesting as 

 it contains two news species and one species, which is unsuffi- 

 ciently described and very little known. 



Genus Crawfordia Pierce. 



The new species of Crawfordia, which is described below, 

 is the first representative of this genus in Europe, the remaining 

 four species having been described by W. D. Pierce from 

 N. America, as parasites of bees of the genus Panurginus Nyl. 

 The present species of Crawfordia was discovered by my brother 

 D. A. O gl o blin in 1914. at Poltava (Russia), but remained 

 undescribed since that time. It is a common parasite of Panur- 

 ginus labiatus Eversm. The following description and drawings 

 have been made from one female specimen forwarded by Mr. 

 J. Noskiewicz. D. A. Ogloblin kindly sent me a table of 

 measurements of 20 specimens taken by him at Poltava, (see 

 belov/). 



Crawfordia labiata m. n. sp. PI. 11. Fig. 1. 



One 9 specimen taken by Mr. J. Noskiewicz at Bedry- 

 kowce (Poland) on 6. VII. 1922 parasitizing in the male of Pa- 

 nurginus labiatus Eversm. 



Female. Larval céphalothorax yellow with black semicircular 

 band on the base ventrally. The first abdominal segment ventrally 



Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne. Zeszyt 4. J U 



