ART. 13 DESCRIPTIONS OF ICHN'EUMON'-FLIES CUSHMAN 1 1 



Tyfe locality. — Cinchona, Jamacia. 

 Type.— C^t. No. 40440, U.S.N.M. 



One female taken by C. C. Gowdey, August 5, 1926, and bearing 

 his No. 1675. 



EPHIALTES POLYCHROMUS. new species 



FeTTiale. — Length 14 mm. ; antennae 13 mm. ; ovipositor 4 mm. 



Head smooth, without sculpture except a few coarse subob^olete 

 punctures on upper part of face; frons deeply concave; face hardly 

 as broad as vertex, somewhat elevated medially and laterally, the 

 elevations separated by rather deep longitudinal impressions ; clypeus 

 twice as broad as long, distinctly discreted, apically inflexed with 

 a narrow reflexed margin, broadly, slightly concavely truncate ; malar 

 space little more than half as long as basal width of mandible; 

 ocell-ocular line slightly shorter than diameter of ocellus; temples 

 narrow and very sharply receding; eyes strongly sinuate within; 

 antennae very nearly as long as body, flagellum very slender, slightly 

 tapering toward apex, its basal joint more than a half longer than 

 second. Thorax smooth; mesoscutum with rather dense suberased 

 punctures, scutellum more sparsely and less distinctly punctured, 

 mesopleurum and metapleurum with a few coarse subobsolete punc- 

 tures; notauli distinct for only a short distance; propodeum coarse- 

 ly transversely striate, the stria at top of apical slope very strong 

 and setting off a rather distinct petiolar area which is less distinctly 

 defined laterally, spiracles large ovate. Abdomen very finely cori- 

 aceous, coarsely, sparsely, and subobsoletely punctate on first five 

 tergites; transverse impressions of tergites 2-5 distinct laterally, 

 obsolete medially; first tergite without dorsal carinae, basal im- 

 pression occupying about half its median length. 



Head and thorax yellow with the following brownish markings: 

 A transverse fascia on vertex including the posterior ocelli, a frontal 

 mark inclosing the anterior ocellus, three stripes on mesoscutum, apex 

 of scutellum, anterior and posterior margins of mesopleurum, a 

 transverse fascia at base of propodeum extending entirely across 

 and surrounding the spiracles, and the apical middle of propodeum ; 

 antennae f usco-f erruginous ; front and middle legs yellow; the fe- 

 mora inside and the tibiae apically more reddish, the tarsi apically 

 brown; hind coxae brown, yellow below and above except at apex, 

 trochanters pale testaceous and yellow, femur bright ferruginous, 

 tibia yellow with base narrowly and apex broadly fusco -ferruginous ; 

 tarsus with first joint yellow, rest fuscous; wings bright yellow, veins 

 blackish, stigma testaceous; basal five tergites brown at base and 

 apex, transversely yellow in middle; apical tergites ferruginous; 

 sheath blackish. 



Type-locality. — Santiago de Cuba. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 40441, U.S.N.M. 



One female. 



