no. 2085. NEW SPECIES OF ICHNEUMON-FLIES— CUSHMAN. 511 



black, frons densely, vertex and cheeks more sparsely punctured; 

 thorax evenly, rather densely punctured throughout, lateral lobes 

 of mesoscutum tinged with reddish; propodeum with the transverse 

 apical carina very prominent and with two arcuately diverging 

 longitudinal carinae, posterior face nearly perpendicular; abdomen 

 short and broad, densely, coarsely punctured, first tergite about as 

 long as broad at apex, its longitudinal carinae flattened and polished, 

 tergites 2-4 each but little longer than half their width, the oblique 

 furrows deeply impressed on 2 and 3; remaining tergites together 

 somewhat shorter than first, tergites 1 and 2 tipped medially with 

 reddish. 



Type.— Cat. No. 18356, U.S.N.M. 



Described from a single female reared oy W. D. Kearfott under 

 his No. 239. 



A deformed female was reared at French Creek, West Virginia, 

 from Carpocapsa pomonella by Fred E. Brooks under No. 708. 



In Cresson's table to the species of the genus 1 this species runs to 

 rufiscutellaris Cresson, from which it is at once distinguished by the 

 stouter form, proportionately shorter tergites, and proportionately 

 longer ovipositor. 



Genus NOTOPYGUS, Holmgren. 



Table to the North American species. 



Mostly uniform ferruginous cultus Cresson. 



Head and thorax black or mostly black. 



Abdomen mostly rufous; face black; fore and middle coxae rufous, excavatus Davis. 



Abdomen mostly black; face yellow; all coxae black virginiensis, new species. 



NOTOPYGUS VIRGINIENSIS, new species. 



Female. — Length, 13 mm. Head black with face, clypeus, palpi, 

 and mandibles except at tip yellow; rather densely clothed with 

 brownish hair which is very long on clypeus and mandibles; temples 

 and occiput finely, face, clypeus, and mandibles rather coarsely 

 punctured; antennae (broken) black, first flagellar joint about three 

 times as long as thick, others gradually decreasing in length until 

 toward the tip they are quadrate; thorax black, tegulae yellow, 

 small spots in front and below brownish; densely punctured except 

 for smooth spot on mesopleura; propodeum somewhat more coarsely 

 punctured, especially on lateral areas; clothed throughout with 

 dense, short, brownish pubescence; coxae and femora black, the 

 latter yellow apically and basally, except that the posterior pair lack 

 the yellow basally; fore and middle trochanters yellow with a brown 

 spot behind, hind trochanters blackish except apically and ventrally 

 where they are yellowish; all tibiae and tarsi yellow; wings dusky, 



1 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, pp. 151-2. 



