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reduced to a V-shaped mark with its base at the base of the clypeus, 

 and the scape and pedicel much lighter; the pronotum in F is reddish- 

 pic eous, lighter at the posterior angles. Paratype G has the face and 

 first tergite entirely black and the apex of the abdomen nearly so; 

 the legs are somewhat paler than in the type. 



Family ICHNEUMONIDAE. 

 Genus AENOPLEX Foerster. 



AENOPLEX CARPOCAPSAE, new species. 



Female. — Length, 7 mm. Black, with second and third tergites 

 and legs rufous, tergites beyond second margined with whitish; 

 clothed throughout with short whitish pubescence; antennae 26- 

 jointed. Face closely, finely punctured; clypeus sparsely punctured 

 at base and apex, smooth and polished medially; vertex and temples 

 sparsely punctured; antennae black with scape beneath, pedicel at 

 apex, and first joint of flagel at base reddish-pic eous; mandibles 

 sparsely punctured, reddish at base, tips black; palpi stramineous; 

 pronotum laterally rugulose; mesoscutum rather densely punctured 

 medially, the punctation fading out laterally; weakly striate medially 

 in front of scutellum, notauli distinct anteriorly; meso and meta- 

 pleurae rugulose ventrally, the rugulosity fading out dorsally into 

 sparse punctation; scutellum sparsely punctured, the furrow between 

 it and the mesoscutum without longitudinal raised lines; propodeum 

 sharply areolated, basal median and basal lateral areas smooth and 

 shining, the latter with a few minute punctures; areola slightly 

 rugulose and with a slight median notch behind, other areas rugu- 

 lose, spiracle round; tegulae and wing bases whitish, a small spot 

 in front of the tegula reddish-pic eous; wings suffused with brown- 

 ish, veins and stigma brown, the latter with a pale spot at base, 

 position of second transverse cubitus indicated by thickenings in 

 the radius and cubitus; legs rufous, their trochanters pale; tips of 

 posterior tibiae and their tarsi, together with the apical joints of all 

 tarsi, infuscated; first tergite black narrowly tipped with reddish- 

 piceous, opaque basally, laterally longitudinally rugulose, smooth 

 and shining apically, with two longitudinal carinae extending about 

 two- thirds of way to apex; second and third tergites dark rufous, 

 opaque basally smooth and shining apically, suture between deeply 

 impressed; remaining tergites black tipped with whitish, smooth; 

 exserted portion of ovipositor one- third length of abdomen; sheath 

 black. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18351, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Vienna, Virginia. 



Host. — Carpocapsa pomonella v 



