1917] Brues—Ichneumonid Genera Cyanocryptus and Lamprocryptus 191 
the life-histories. It is evident from my study of the genitalia 
that we need large series of specimens, field notes and life-histories 
before we can list forms, races or species on our present scanty 
knowledge, as at present it is more or less individual opinion. 
I have made the male, from which I prepared my best slide, as the 
type, in case the true vitalbata D. & S. should occur in North 
America. 
Expanse 27-29 mm. 
Holotype o& — VI— 5, 1914, Calgary, Alberta, from Mr. Wolley 
Dod. 
Allotype 2 — VI— 26, 1907, Calgary, Alberta, from Mr. Wolley 
Dod. 
Paratype 2 — VI — 26, 1914, Calgary, Alberta, from Mr. 
Wolley Dod. 
All the above are in my collection. 
NOTE ON THE ICHNEUMONID GENERA CYANO- 
CRYPTUS AND LAMPROCRYPTUS. 
By CuHarwes T. Bruges. 
When collecting insects in the Peruvian Andes several years 
ago, I secured a large metallic blue Ichneumonid which proves to 
be the female of Cyanocryptus metallicus, a species described by 
Cameron in 1903 from a male specimen collected in Ecuador. 
Since then I have received through Dr. F. E. Lutz of the American 
Museum of Natural History a quite similar insect from Southern 
Patagonia apparently referable to Cameron’s genus Lamprocryp- 
tus, which can hardly be separated from Cyanocryptus. 
Since the female of Cyanocryptus metallicus has not been de- 
scribed and as there is some confusion concerning the name Lam- 
procryptus, the following note is presented. 
~CYANOCRYPTUS CAMERON. 
The Entomologist, Vol. 36, p. 121 (1903). 
Schmiedeknecht, Opus. Ichneum., fase. VI, p. 415 (1904). 
Schmiedeknecht, Gen. Insect., fasc. 75, p. 13 (1909). 
Type: C. metallicus Cameron. 
