﻿DESCRIPTIONS 
  OF 
  SIX 
  NEW 
  GENERA 
  AND 
  TWELVE 
  

   NEW 
  SPECIES 
  OF 
  ICHNEUMON-FLIES. 
  

  

  By 
  H. 
  L. 
  ViERECK, 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Entomology, 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  

  

  This 
  paper 
  deals 
  chiefly 
  with 
  reared 
  species 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  

   Entomology, 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  for 
  determi- 
  

   nation. 
  

  

  The 
  families, 
  genera, 
  and 
  species 
  in 
  this 
  paper 
  are 
  arranged 
  alpha- 
  

   betically. 
  

  

  Family 
  ALYSIID^. 
  

  

  ASOBARA 
  ORIENTALIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Type-locality. 
  — 
  India. 
  

  

  Type.—Csit. 
  No. 
  15288, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  I^ength 
  1.5 
  mm. 
  Polished; 
  face 
  including 
  clypeus 
  and 
  

   mandibles 
  stramineous, 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  Avith 
  dark 
  edges, 
  vertex 
  

   and 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  occiput 
  brownish, 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  occiput 
  and 
  cheeks 
  

   stramineous, 
  ocelli 
  equidistant 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  the 
  lateral 
  ocelli 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  eye 
  margin 
  as 
  from 
  each 
  other, 
  mouth 
  parts 
  pale 
  

   stramineous, 
  palpi 
  whitish, 
  scape 
  and 
  pedicel 
  stramineous, 
  flagel 
  25- 
  

   jointed, 
  brownish, 
  excepting 
  the 
  last 
  seven 
  joints 
  which 
  are 
  whitish; 
  

   prothorax 
  stramineous 
  as 
  is 
  the 
  dorsulum 
  and 
  the 
  scutel; 
  notauli 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  only 
  anteriorly, 
  dorsulum 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  punctiform 
  depression 
  

   near 
  the 
  posterior 
  edge, 
  mesopleurae 
  blackish, 
  the 
  sternauli 
  present 
  

   and 
  rather 
  foveolate, 
  mesosternum 
  brownish; 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  yellowish 
  

   tinge; 
  veins 
  and 
  stigma 
  pale 
  brown, 
  legs 
  stramineous; 
  propodeum 
  

   brownish, 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  longitudinal 
  carina 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  the 
  

   oblong 
  areola 
  and 
  an 
  apical 
  transverse 
  carina; 
  metapleuras 
  blackish 
  

   and 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  propodeum 
  by 
  a 
  carina;first, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  

   segment 
  stramineous, 
  with 
  two 
  parallel 
  longitudinal 
  carinas, 
  convex 
  

   and 
  carinate 
  along 
  the 
  lateral 
  margin, 
  rest 
  of 
  abdomen 
  rather 
  blackish 
  

   except 
  the 
  hypopygium, 
  ovipositor 
  and 
  sheaths 
  which 
  are 
  pale 
  

   stramineous. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "Fruit 
  fly 
  parasite, 
  1906; 
  George 
  Compere, 
  collector." 
  

  

  Proceedings 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Vol, 
  44— 
  No. 
  1974. 
  

  

  639 
  

  

  