PAEASITES REARED FROM EGGS OF GIPSY MOTH. 



freedom those which contain the fuhy devekiped caterpihai' all really 



to hatch. 



Genus TYNDARICHUS, new genus. 



Female. — Mandibles like those of Schedius. Antennae short; scape 

 rather short, with a rather broad leaflike extension below; pedicel 

 long, obconical, two and one-half times as lonj; as width at tip and 

 half as long as f unicle ; first f unicle 

 joint narrower than tip of pedicel 

 and rather shorter than broad; fu- 

 nicle joints 2, 3, and 4 each about 

 as long as 1, but gradually widen- 

 ing; 5 and 6 somewhat longer and 

 considerably wider, thus making the 

 width increase from 1 to 6; club 

 very broad,, somewhat flattened, 

 haAung three segments subequal in 

 length, but with the dividing sutures 

 slightly oblique, tip obliqueh^ trun- 

 cate from a point immediately before 

 the last suture ; flagellum with sparse 

 hairs, and scape and pedicel with a 

 few bristles. Body short, stout, re- 

 sembling Schedius in general appearance. Antennae inserte<l slightly 

 above mouth border; facial depression and clypeus resembling 

 Schedius; vertex narrower than with Schedius, but ocelli placed in 



the same manner; oc- 



Fig. 2. — Schedius kuvanx: 

 9 , antenna of female. 

 (Original.) 



, Antenna of male; 

 Highly magnified. 



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cipital margin acute; 

 eyes naked, not rigid 

 (falling in after death). 

 Axilh« of mesonotum 

 barely meeting at tip ; 

 a bdomen fl a 1 1 e n e d 

 above, triangular, 

 nearly as long as 

 thorax. Fore wings 

 broad; disc closely 

 ciliate though not so 

 densely as with Sched- 

 ius, oblique hairless 

 line below stigma 

 faintly indicated, but 

 the entire disc below 

 sidjmarginal vein only 

 sparsely ciliate; marginal vein punctiform, stigmal much as witli 

 Schedius; submarginal vein with a pronounced and curious break beyond 

 middle as illustrated in figure .5 ; hind wings broader than with Schedius. 



FiQ. ^. —Schedius i^uvanse: Fore and hind wings of female 

 magnified. (Original.) 



Highly 



