NO. 1789. NEW ICHNEUMON-FLIES— VIERECK. 405 



pedicel entirely black; thorax black except for the following yellow 

 ornaments: Anterior lateral edge of collar, anterior lateral edge of 

 mesonotum and a transverse line on the mesopleura beneath the 

 wings, yellow, posterior half of disk of scutel and disk of postscutel 

 yellow, tegulse translucent brownish with a yellow spot, mesopleura 

 with conspicuous nearly adjoining punctures with hardly any impunc- 

 tate area above posteriorly, propodeum with the median longitudinal 

 carinse represented but not quite attaining the middle of the sclerite, 

 third lateral area more or less defined by carinae, fore and mid tro- 

 chanters more or less black above, hind trochanters entirely black, 

 hind femora mostly castaneous or reddish tipped with yellow and 

 streaked with black, wings strongly brownish, region about the apex 

 of the marginal cell darker than the rest of the wing, stigma and costa 

 brownish, remaining veins appearing black or blackish except the 

 submedian vein which is translucent, areolet nearly quadrate; dorsal 

 segments with an apical yellow band of nearly equal width, the first 

 segment with its yellow band undulate anteriorly, hypopygium yellow. 



Type-locality. — Crawlford , Nebraska. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13345, U.S.N.M. 



In describing tliis species comparison has been made with a speci- 

 men of E. oriolus Hartig in the U. S. National Museum and determined 

 by O. Schmiedeknecht. In points not touched upon above this species 

 is very similar to E. oriolus Hartig as represented by the specimen 

 in question. In closing it needs only to be said that this new species 

 w^as described from specimens reared June 10, 1910, by L. Bruner and 

 M. H. Swenk from Lopliyrus townsendi taken in the type-locality. 



In the three paratypes there is additional yellow ornamentation, 

 namely, an additional line on the collar and mesopleura, a spot 

 beneath the liind wings and a spot on each side of the propodeum. 



Genus PHYGADEUON Gravenhorst. 



Type. — Phygadeuon fumator Gravenhorst. 



PHYGADEUON (.ENOPLEX) ARGEiE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 5.5 mm.; flagel 25-jointed, with each joint a 

 little shorter than the one preceding, although beyond the middle 

 they are more nearly equal to each other excepting the apical joint, 

 which is nearly as long as the two precedmg together, first jokit 

 nearly four tunes as long as wide at apex, antennae brownish tlu-ough- 

 out, head black, face dullish, indistmctly punctured, with whitish 

 hairs, vertex, occiput and cheeks shining, punctured, clypeus trans- 

 versely striated, impressed anteriorly, its middle third rather trun- 

 cate or undulate truncate, mandibles mostly castaneous, their upper 

 edge about half again as long as the width at base; palpi stramineous. 



