no. 1812. NEW ICHNEUMON FLIES— VIERECK. 175 



middle, its apical width at least one and one-half times the basal 

 width, its sides oblique to the middle be} ;r ond which they are almost 

 parallel, in sculpture similar to the first tergal plate, remaining 

 tergal segments virtually smooth and shining throughout, only the 

 third with apparent sculpture and in this confined to extreme base, 

 exserted portion of sheaths of the ovipositor nearly as long as the 

 first tergal segment, abdomen black or blackish throughout. 



Male. — Similar, its first tergal plate apparently twice as long as 

 wide at base and parallel sided throughout, the second tergal plate 

 hardly as wide at base as long down the middle; femora more or less 

 blackish, mid tibiae with apical infuscation, hind tibiae infuscated 

 except for a pale basal annulus. 



Type.—€&t. No. 13501, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Washington, District of Columbia. 



"Bred from Bedellia, September 9, 1910; T. H. Jones, collector." 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) BENEFICUS, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.5 mm.; belongs to a group of species of which 

 the American Apanteles (Protapanteles) radiatus Ashmead is a repre- 

 sentative, but from that species it may be readily distinguished as 

 follows: Scape and rest of antennae black, tegument of head black; 

 thorax black, dorsulum dullish, indistinctly sculptured, wings hyaline, 

 apparently tinged with whitish, transverse cubitus not forming an 

 angle at its junction with the radius, anterior coxae blackish as are 

 all the other coxae, middle femora brownish, fourth and fifth joints 

 of middle tarsi fuscous, hind legs black or blackish almost through- 

 out; propodeum almost completely smooth and shining all over; 

 first dorsal plate apparently twice as long down the middle as wide 

 at base and virtually smooth and polished throughout, sculptureless, 

 second plate not much narrower at base than long down the middle, 

 also smooth, polished, and sculptureless, the first and second tergal 

 segments rather brownish, rest of tergal segments blackish. 



Male. — Quite similar to the female, agreeing in all essential par- 

 ticulars. 



Type.— €at. No. 13492, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. 



Received from C. W. Howard, who sent them to the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. 



APANTELES (PROTAPANTELES) CHRYSIPPI, new species. 



Belongs to a group of species represented by Apanteles (Protapan- 

 teles) solitarius (Ratzeburg) Marshall. 



Female. — Length 2.25 mm.; head black and shining, antennae 

 blackish or dark brown throughout, facial line not longer than the 

 transfacial line, mandibles brownish, palpi mostty pale, mesonotum 

 mostty dullish and closely punctured, many of the interstices narrower 



