192 Psyche [December 
Cyanocryptus metallicus Cameron 
The Entomologist, Vol. 36, p. 121 (1903) (). 
Female. Length 19 mm., ovipositor 10mm. _ Brilliant metallic 
blue; head and thorax with purplish reflections, especially on the 
cheeks and propodeum; first two segments of abdomen strongly 
purplish; remaining ones bluish; antennz black with a white 
annulus from the middle of the second flagellar joint to the tip of 
the ninth, the second and basal half of the third black above. 
Tarsi, palpi, mandibles, and ovipositor with its sheaths black; 
four anterior tibize dark brown, with but little metallic color. 
Wings black, with brilliant blue and purple reflections. Antenne 
slender, tapering; first flagellar joint four times as long as_ thick; 
second and third but little shorter; fourth half as long as the first, 
fifth and sixth each slightly shorter. Propodeum coarsely re- 
ticulated, with well developed, but not large lateral teeth; with- 
out complete transverse carinze, but with the anterior one indi- 
cated medially as a short curved ridge bent forward at the middle 
where it is contiguous to a very small basal area. Abdomen 
shining, microscopically roughened and punctulate but not suf- 
ficiently so to render its surface opaque. ‘Transverse median vein 
almost interstitial with the basal vein, the submedian cell barely 
longer. 
Aside from the position of the transverse median vein which 
Cameron describes as “‘not interstitial” and the abdomen which 
is ‘shining, impunctate” in the male there are no conspicuous 
differences between the sexes. ‘The female I took near Matucana, 
Peru at an altitude of 7,500 feet. The male type from Ecuador 
was taken at between 7,000 and 8,000 feet altitude. This insect is 
evidently common in the Peruvian Andes as I saw numerous 
specimens in Professor Townsend’s collection taken by him in the 
same part of Peru. 
LAMPROCRYPTUS SCHMIEDEKNECHT. 
Opusce. Ichneum., fase. VI, p. 414 (1904) (no species). 
Schmiedeknecht, Gen. Insect. fase. 75, p. 11, pl. 1, fig. 7, pl. I, 
fig. 5 (1908) (six species described). 
Viereck, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 83,’p. 81 (type species desig- 
nated). 
Type: ZL. gracilis Schmiedeknecht. 
