no. 1812. NEW ICHNEUMON FLIES— VlERECR. 187 



eyes back of the eyes, as seen from in front wider than long or with 

 the facial line shorter than the transfacial line, ocelli not prominent, 

 equidistant or nearly so, about one-third as far from each other as 

 from the nearest eye margin, antennas 13-jointed, scape and pedicel 

 pale, flagel brownish, joints subequal, the first joint a little longer 

 than the second, mandibles and palpi mostly pale; thorax castaneous 

 mostly blackish above, finely sculptured; propodeum with a median 

 longitudinal carina that extends to a little beyond the middle and 

 then bifurcates to form a nearly parallel sided petiolarea; hind wings 

 without a parastigma, tegulae, stigma, and most veins rather dusky 

 stramineous, legs stramineous; abdomen finely sculptured, castane- 

 ous laterally, mostly blackish above, basal facet of first dorsal segment 

 bounded by a distinct carina and rather triangular with a delicate 

 median carina extending from its apex to the apex of the first seg- 

 ment, first dorsal segment trapezoidal, nearly two-thirds as long as 

 the second segment which latter is trapezoidal although nearly 

 quadrate and at least one-third again as long as the third, the third 

 one-third again as long as the fourth, second segment with a faint 

 incomplete longitudinal median carina. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13488, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Wellington, Kansas. 



Received from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of 

 Entomology. "Swept from Agropyron, April 9, 1910;" T. H. Parks, 

 collector. 



Named for Mr. T. II. Parks. 



POLYSTENIDEA METACOMET, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.5 mm. Head black, rather smooth and shin- 

 ing; as seen from above, extending nearly to the outside line of the 

 eyes back of the eyes, antennas 14-jointed, scape, pedicel, and man- 

 dibles mostly pale; thorax black, legs mostly stramineous, rather 

 infuscated; exserted portion of ovipositor as seen from above not as 

 long as the apical segment of the abdomen. 



In other points this spcies answers well to the description of the 

 genotype as described above. 



Type. — Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, 

 Connecticut. 



Type-locality. — New Haven, Connecticut; collected by the writer 

 July 4, 1905. 



STENOPLEURA, new genus. 



Related to Protapanteles Ashmead, from which it may be dis- 

 guished in the depressed thorax which is apparently wider from side 

 to side than thick dorso-ventrally; lower edge of scrobe a little below 

 or on a line with an imaginary straight line drawn across the face and 



