462 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1913. 



Ichneumonidae . (Hym .) 



ßy C. A. L. Smits van Bargst, The Hague, Holland. 



Cryptinae. 



1. Hemiteles Pfankuchi n. sp. 



$. Head circular anteriorly , transverse , obliquely rounded 

 behind the eyes; cheeks inflated; eyes internally slightly divergent ; 

 epistoma prominent; clypeus subdiscreted , apically rounded, not 

 dentate centrally ; subglabrous , excepting face which is hnely 

 coriaeeous and covered wiih pubescence. Antennae filiform, not 

 fully two-thirds the length of the body ; flagellum 20- Joint ed, 

 basal flagellar joints elongate , decreasing in length towards the 

 centre, second Joint only slightly shorter than basal one. 



Thorax cylindrical , narrower than the head ; parapsidäl 

 furrows distinet; somewhat shining ; mesonotum punetate, central 

 lob very closely punetate and dull , mesopleurae longitudinally 

 striate, speculum shining ; metathorax roughly wrinkled, with two 

 distinet transverse, but obsolete longitudinal, eostae ; area petio- 

 laris somewhat excavate ; apophyses very small ; metathoraoie 

 spiracles small and circular. 



In forewing stigma large , with the radial nervure emitted 

 from its centre ; areola with the outer nervure wanting, the inner 

 nervure nearly twice longer than its distance from nervus recurrens ; 

 the discocubital almost straight ; discoidal cell externa lly acute 

 below. In hindwing nervellus obviously antefurcal , intereepted 

 at its lower third. 



Abdomen oblong-ovate, slightly broader than thorax, shining ; 

 basal segment moderately dilated towards apex, sharply aciculate 

 throughout, the extreme apex glabrous, spiracles slightly prominent; 

 second segment aciculate , glabrous apically , following segments 

 nitidulous ; terebra viewed from above, as long as second, third 

 and fourth segment. 



Legs normal, front tibiae slightly intumescent. 



Length, including terebra, 4 1 /,, mm. 



A slender , somewhat shining species. Head black , with 

 mandibles rufescent and palpi flavidöus. Antennae rufescent, 

 basally ferrugineous. Thorax black. Whigs with an infuscate 

 fascia beneath the stigma; tegulae flavescent, radix stramineous, 

 stigma and nervures pale pieeous. Abdomen black, segments one 

 and two with a narrow red apical margin. Legs fulvous, clouded 

 with fuscous colouring, especially the hind ones. 



This species follows on no. 62 in the table of Hemitelini given 

 by Prof. Schmiedeknecht (Opusc. Ichneum. p. 769). 



