ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 363 
Occurrence of the Remarkable Braconid Genus 
_____Helorimorpha in America. ~ 
By Ci ARLES T. Brues, Public Museum, Milwaukee. 
Nn 1907, Professor Otto Schmiedeknecht described a very pe- 
le species of Braconida’to which he gave the name 
imor egregia (Hym. Mitteleuropas, Jena, 1907, p. 
: kee he new to science and for its reception, its 
jor establi the subfamily Helorimorphine, which he 
*d between the vores ed and Leiphroninz in the scheme 
classification adopted in that work. The single specimen upon 
I ich ] Prof. Schmiedeknecht based his description seems to have 
been the only one so far recorded, and I was therefore very 
irprised recently to receive from my friend Professor 
Mielander, a second specimen which represents a very 
istinct but closely allied ies collected by him some years 
_ 8g0 at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Like its European con- 
_ gener, the American species is probably very rare, as the pres- 
ent specimen is the only one taken during several summers 
¢ collecting in the vicinity, by both Professor Melander 
es me great pleasure to dedicate the species to its dis- 
bverer, in remembrance of the many entomological excursions 
lich we have taken together into the interesting territory sur- 
1 : ir : Woods Hole. % 
— . Helorimorpha melanderi sp. nov. 
malé—Lenath 4 mm. Honey-vellow; the head. except mouthparts, 
1 the antenr black. Head seen from above, transverse, two 
nd one-half times as wide as thick, and full behind the eves. Eyes 
, nearly circular, no longer than the large, broad cheeks. Front 
sly excavated on each side above the insertion of the antennz, 
pressions separated by a strong median carina which extends 
below the base of the antennx nearly to the median ocellus. Ocelli 
| placed in a small cquilateral triangle which is distinctly raised 
ind bordered by a raised line. Head margined behind on the occiput. 
- temples and checks. Clypeus transverse, elliptic. very broadly and 
Slightly emarginate anteriorly; mandibles long, acute, apparently with 
a | broa¢ tooth some distance before the tip. Surface of head faintly 
le above, very closely so below, clypeus sparsely punctate, cheeks, 
S and occiput smooth and polished. Antennz 18-jointed; scape 
as the first flagellar joint, pedicel small, subglobose: flagellar 
it: lly shortening to the ninth which is ovoid, following moni- 
ort Maxillary palpi 4-jointed. Entire thorax, including pleura, 
cul: or coarsely pitted with large, almost confluent thimble- 
ed punctures. Metathorax short, abruptly declivous behind; longi- 
tudinally concave on the posterior slope. Abdomen smooth and 
highly polished. inserted very low down between the hind coxa, its 
| petiole long and slender, curved and dilated at the tip as in some males 
of the Cryptine, with a few delicate strie at the base. Remainder 
