410 DESCRIPTIONS OF ICHNEUMONIDiE ASHMEAD. 



Although this species could easily be mistaken for C. Umatiis Cress., 

 the short submedian cell, absence of a stump of a vein on the cubitus 

 and other characters will at once separate it. 



Cryptus monticola sp. nov. 



Female. — Length 8 mm ; ovipositor 2 mm . Stature of C. si mills Cress. 

 Head and thorax anteriorly, black, punctate; the head more confid- 

 ently punctate; the parapsides indicated only anteriorly. The abdo- 

 men is piceo rufous and much darker than any of the closely allied 

 forms. All the coxre, trochanters, and hind legs are black, the ante- 

 rior and middle legs being rufous, the femora more or less dusky ba- 

 sally. The pleura aud metathorax are rugoso-punctate, pubescent; the 

 metathorax has two transverse keels, the narrow space between the 

 first and the post scutellum being smooth aud polished; the other keel 

 is situated along the superior margin of the truncature, it is nearly ob- 

 literated medially but becomes sharply defined and prominent at the 

 lateral angles. Wings fusco-hyaline; stigma and veins black; theareo- 

 let is large, pentagonal, the two outer sides being equal while the other 

 three sides are longer and of an equal length ; the cubitus has no dis- 

 tinct stump of a vein, but where it usually exists is a thickened dot ; 

 the submedian cell is slightly longer than the median, and the third 

 discoidal cell is much narrowed at base. 



Habitat. — Veta Pass, Colorado. 



Described from a single specimen. The color of the abdomen and 

 wings and the venation sufficiently distinguish this species. It might 

 be placed in Walsh's genus Joppidium. 



Cryptus texensis sp. nov. 



Male. — Length 10 mm . Similar to C. lophyri Norton, but larger and 

 more robust. Eead and thorax black, closely punctate ; orbits interrupted 

 above, joints 8 to 18 of antenna?, upper margin of collar, interrupted 

 medially, line beneath tegula? and most of the scutellum, white. Legs, 

 except eoxse, trochanters and hind tibia? and tarsi which are black, 

 rufous, the anterior and middle pairs being paler. Apical margin of 

 scutellum black, striate, rest of the scutellum punctate and covered 

 with a long, very fine pubescence. Metathorax coarsely areolated, the 

 surface of most of the areas rugose, transversely wrinkled or trans- 

 versely lined, the posterior face being coarsely, transversely lined. Ab- 

 domen broadly ovate, rufous, segments four aud five, black, margined at 

 apex with white, the following segments very short, white. Wiugs hy- 

 aline ; costal vein to stigma black, stigma and the other veins brown, 

 the areolet pentagonal, the cubitus kneed at the middle. 



Habitat. — Texas. 



Described from a single specimen in Belfrage collection ; the species 

 looks very much like an Ichneumon. 



