NEW SPECIES OF KEARED ICHNEUMON-FLIES. 



By H, L. ViERECK, 



Of the Bureau of Entomology , Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Most of the species herein treated are the results of rearings of 

 economic species of insects carried on by the Bureau of Entomology 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Where the type of a genus 

 herein treated has not yet been fixed I have designated the type. 



Genus METEORUS Haliday. 

 Type. — M.filator Hahday. 



METEORUS LOXOSTEGEI, new species. 



Male. — ^Length 4 mm.; related to Metorus imlcliricomis Wesmael 

 and to M. politus Provancher. Differential points are the absence 

 of the median longitudinal carina of the propodeum, striae on first 

 dorsal segment strongly converging toward the apex, boss between 

 the fossae on the first dorsal segment narrower than either fossa, 

 spiracles of first segment not prominently projecting, stride of this 

 segment not coarse. 



Type-locality. — Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13338, U.S.N.M. 



One specimen with the following additional data, ''Bred from 

 Loxostege stidicalis, April 14, 1910, H. O. Marsh collector, Chittenden 

 No. 1565," received from the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Genus SCHIZOPRYMNUS Foerster. 



SCmZOPRYMNTJS PHILLIPSI, new species. 



Female. — Length 2.5 mm. Closely resemljles -S'. texanus (Cresson), 

 from which it may be distinguished by the sculptured front and ver- 

 tex. Abdomen reddish brown suffused with black. 



Male. — Similar to the female, apex of abdomen hardly emarginate, 

 abdomen mostly reddish. 



Type-locality. — Richmond, Indiana. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13339, U.S.N.M. 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 39— No. 1789. 

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