420 DESCRIPTIONS OF ICHNEUMONIDiE ASHMEAD. 



They were of a dirty brownish gray color, very much resembling slugs, i. e., the 

 segments were not well separated, the dividing sutures only being visible under a 

 strong lens. They, together with the saw-fly larvae, were placed in a small vial. On 

 the second day they left the saw-lly larvae, which had become mere skins, and wan- 

 dered about in the vial : the third day they spun cocoons on the surface of the soil 

 and attached to the side of the vial. About ten days later imagos emerged; no 

 lM'va> were preserved. 



CREMNODES Forster. 



Cremnodes californicus sp. nov. 



Female.— Length 2 mm ; ovipositor only slightly exsertecl. Dark fer- 

 ruginous, densely microscopically punctate, and covered with a short 

 tine sericeous pubescence. Head subquadrate, slightly darker colored 

 than the thorax; the face a little prominent medially and roughened; 

 clypeus separated from the surrounding surface by a groove at the sides ; 

 a groove extends from base of eye to the base of mandibles ; teeth or 

 tips of maudibles black; palpi short, piceous; antenna? lo-jointed, a 

 little longer than the head and thorax together, slightly subclavate, the 

 three basal joints pale, the flagellum brown. Thorax slender, about 

 thrice as long as wide, the inesonotum separated from the metauoturn 

 by a deep transverse groove; noscutellum; metanotum smooth. Viewed 

 from the side the thorax is trilobed, a pair of legs being attached to 

 each lobe. The abdomen is ovate, the petiole the length of posterior 

 coxa? and trochanters united, and but slightly widened at apex; ovi- 

 positor one-third the length of petiole, black. 



Habitat.- Los Angeles, California. 



Described from one specimen received from Mr. Albert Koebele. 



PEZOLOCHUS Forster. 



Pezolochus bucculatricis sp. nov. 



Male and Female.— Length l.C mm ; ovipositor the length of petiole. 

 Black to brown-black, densely microscopically punctate; the face, col- 

 lar above and at sides, disk of mesonotum, blotch on metanotum, legs 

 and a streak at base of the petiole, pale yellow ferruginous, the pos- 

 terior coxa? and femora, darker; in the male all the legs are darker 

 than in the female, and in one specimen the thorax is wholly dark- 

 brown, without the pale ferruginous spots ; the apex of the petiole, in 

 both sexes, is yellow. 



The head is subquadrate, the face greatly shortened ; palpi long, yel- 

 lowish; antenna' in female slightly subclavate, 19-jointed, pale-brown, 

 yellowish basally, and reaching to base of the second abdominal seg- 

 ment ; in the male, much longer, filiform, 20-joiuted, reaching to the 

 middle of the abdomen. 



The mesonotum is separated from the metanotum by a deep con- 

 striction, each part being about of an equal length, but the hinder part 

 or the metanotum, is more elevated, aud with a delieate transverse 

 keel on the superior edge of the oblique posterior face, quite distinct at 

 the middle in the male but subobsolete in the female. Abdomen ovate, 



