A NEW SCHIZOPYGA FROM CANADA (HYMENOP.; ICHNEUMONIDAE)

Extract

Female.—Length 7 mm. Head thick antero-posteriorly, the temples scarcely narrowed behind, distinctly broader than eyes viewed dorsally; vertex evenly convex; ocelli small ; ocellocular space fully three times diameter of lateral ocellus; malar space scarcely half basal width of mandible; face distinctly elevated above level of eye-margins, feebly shining with well separated fine punctures, the interspaces finely reticulately sculptured; antennae 23 segmented, first flagellar segment very nearly equal to second and third combined; thorax shining; propleura polished almost without punctures ; mesoscutum with only sparse punctures bearing vestiture ; mesopleura sparsely punctate above and polished impunctate behind, anteriorly and ventrally the punctures becoming more dense toward a patch of very fine dense punctures adjacent epicneimia; metapleura with larger shallow punctures which are somewhat confused by weak rugulae below; propodeum rather elongate, shining, impunctate, dorsally finely and faintly reticulate, median parallel longitudinal carinae very weak, lateral longitudinal carina distinct only on posterior half, apical transverse carina defined laterally but scarcely visible at middle; lateral face of propodeuin a little roughened; nervulus slightly postfurcal, nervellus broken about at middle.