NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES AND TAXONOMIC 



NOTES 



By R. A. CusHMAN 



Of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 



The following pages contain the descriptions of new species of 

 Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, and Aulacidae from the Nearctic and 

 oriental zoological regions, together with notes on previously de- 

 scribed species and genera and the proposal of a new generic name 

 for a preoccupied name. 



Family ICHNEUMONIDAE 



AMBLYTELES VELOX (Cresson) (new combination) 



Ichneumon velox Ckesson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 3, IS&i, p: 185 ; Trans, 



Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 6, 1877, p. 178. — Provanchesi, Faune Ent. Can., 



Hym., 1883, p. 287; female. 

 Ichneumon puerilis Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 1, 1867-8, p. 296 ;^ 



vol. 6, 1877, p. 158.— Provancher, Faune Ent. Can., Hym., 1883, p. 274; 



male. (New synonymy.) 

 Ichneumon oecidentaUs Harrington, Can. Ent., vol. 26, 1894, p. 210, 



female. (New synonymy.) 

 Ichneumon meUicoxus Provancher, Nat. Can., vol. 7, 1875, p. 48, male. 



(New synonymy.) 

 Phygadeuon aplcatus Provancher, Nat. Can., vol. 7, 1875, p. 180, female. 

 Phygadeuon cressoni Provanchb^i, Nat. Can., vol. 8, 1876, p. 318, female. 



The synonymy of the two Cresson species is based on a series 

 including both sexes reared by Karl Schedl from the hemlock looper 

 in September, 1928, at Footes Bay, Ontario. The synonymy of 

 Ichneumon oecidentaUs Harrington is based on a homotype (Gahan)^ 

 which was also compared by Gahan with the types of Phygadeuon 

 apicatus Provancher and P. cressoni Provancher, which two species 

 Avere synonymized by Provancher himself. Provancher also synony- 

 mized his Ichneumon mellicoxus with /. puerilis Cresson. 



ANISOBAS TEXENSIS (Ashmead) (new combination) 



Cryptus texensis Ashmead, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 12, 1890, p. 410. 

 The type is female, not male as stated by Ashmead. There is also 

 a male from Cypress Mills, Tex., which differs in no way except sexu"- 

 ally from the type. 



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