﻿NO. 
  1974. 
  XEW 
  SPECIES 
  OF 
  ICHNEUMON-FLIES— 
  YIERECK. 
  643 
  

  

  transverse 
  cubitus, 
  and 
  third 
  abscissa 
  of 
  cubitus 
  brownish 
  stra- 
  

   mineous, 
  other 
  veins 
  almost 
  colorless 
  except 
  for 
  a 
  brownish 
  cast, 
  

   radius 
  and 
  transverse 
  cubitus 
  forming 
  an 
  arc 
  of 
  a 
  circle, 
  legs 
  excepting 
  

   hind 
  coxae 
  and 
  all 
  tarsi 
  mostly 
  reddish 
  yellow, 
  tarsi 
  brownish, 
  hind 
  

   coxse 
  black, 
  yellowish 
  at 
  apex, 
  hind 
  femora 
  at 
  apex, 
  and 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   at 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  dusky; 
  propodeum 
  rugose, 
  indistinctly 
  

   carinate 
  down 
  the 
  middle; 
  first, 
  dorsal, 
  abdominal 
  plate 
  wider 
  at 
  apex 
  

   than 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  dullish 
  rugose, 
  distinctly 
  wider 
  at 
  apex 
  than 
  the 
  

   second 
  plate 
  is 
  long 
  down 
  the 
  middle; 
  second, 
  dorsal 
  plate 
  transversely 
  

   oblong, 
  rugulose 
  throughout 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  sharp 
  line 
  of 
  demarkation 
  

   between 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  sculptureless 
  or 
  virtually 
  sculptureless 
  third 
  dorsal 
  

   abdominal 
  segment, 
  ovipositor 
  hardly 
  exserted, 
  hypopygium 
  not 
  

   surpassing 
  the 
  pygidium. 
  

  

  Allotopotype. 
  — 
  Essentially 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  type, 
  the 
  pale 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  legs 
  

   rather 
  stramineous. 
  

  

  Labeled, 
  "From 
  larva 
  of 
  Naranga 
  diffusa 
  May, 
  1911, 
  No. 
  18; 
  T. 
  

   Shiraki, 
  collector." 
  

  

  Cocoons 
  yellowish 
  brown, 
  arranged 
  obliquely 
  in 
  rows 
  on 
  blades 
  of 
  

   grass. 
  

  

  SHIRAKIA, 
  ne>Ar 
  genus. 
  

  

  Type-species. 
  — 
  Shirakia 
  scJioenolii, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Related 
  to 
  Habrohracon 
  (Ashmead) 
  Jolmson 
  in 
  venation 
  but 
  differs 
  

   radically 
  in 
  the 
  complete 
  crenulated 
  notauli 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  second, 
  dorsal, 
  

   abdominal 
  segment 
  having 
  an 
  oblique 
  furrow 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  

   furrows 
  converging 
  but 
  not 
  meeting 
  apically. 
  

  

  Named 
  for 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  Shiraki. 
  

  

  SHIRAKIA 
  SCHOENOBII, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Type-locality. 
  — 
  Taihoku, 
  Formosa. 
  

  

  Type.—QaA.. 
  No. 
  15335, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Length 
  4.5 
  mm. 
  Head 
  shining, 
  mostly 
  reddish, 
  face 
  

   with 
  a 
  blackish 
  stain 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  finely 
  sculptured 
  and 
  indefinitely 
  

   punctured, 
  front 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  black 
  mark 
  occupying 
  the 
  middle 
  two- 
  

   fourths 
  and 
  extending 
  from 
  between 
  the 
  insertion 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  

   upward 
  between 
  and 
  around 
  the 
  ocelli, 
  the 
  latter 
  collectively 
  cir- 
  

   cumscribed 
  by 
  a 
  furrow 
  that 
  is 
  prolonged 
  below 
  the 
  anterior 
  ocellus 
  

   and 
  ends 
  in 
  a 
  poorly 
  developed 
  carina 
  between 
  the 
  antennal 
  fossae, 
  

   lateral 
  ocelli 
  a 
  little 
  nearer 
  to 
  the 
  anterior 
  ocellus 
  than 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  

   and 
  nearly 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  nearest 
  eye 
  margm 
  as 
  from 
  

   each 
  other, 
  occiput 
  brownish 
  stramineous, 
  finely 
  sculptured, 
  and 
  with 
  

   scattered 
  indefinite 
  punctures; 
  cheeks 
  and 
  malar 
  space 
  stramineous, 
  

   the 
  former 
  sculptured 
  somewhat 
  like 
  the 
  occiput, 
  the 
  malar 
  space 
  

   finely 
  sculptured; 
  mandibles 
  with 
  blackish 
  tips, 
  palpi 
  brownish, 
  other 
  

   mouth 
  parts 
  stramineous, 
  scape 
  stramineous 
  beneath, 
  antennae 
  else- 
  

  

  