DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW HYMENOPTERA FROM JAPAN. By William H. Ashmead, AssiMmit Curator, Diriftio)) of Inserts. \ ..„„.,.,...._.,...„„ era and species of Japanese Hymenoptera in the National Museum, presented by Dr. K. Mitsukuri, of the Imperial University of Tokio; Mr. Y. Nawa, of Gifu; Dr. S. Matsumura, of Sapporo; Mr. Albert Koebele, of Honolulu, and others. A few species are also included from China, Formosa, Trong-, Lower 8iam, etc. Six genera and seventy-three species are described as new to science. Parts land II of this series of papers were published in the Journal of the New York Entomological Society for 1904, and treated of the superfamilies Sphecoidea, Vespoidea, Proctotrypoidea, Cynipoidea, and Chalcidoidea. The present paper treats of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea. Superfamily VIII. ICHNEUMONOIDEA. Family LXXV. ICHNEUMONIDJC. SuT3faiTiii>^ I. icmsTETJivroisriiNrvE. MATSUMURAIUS, new genus. This new genus belongs to the tribe Joppini, and will fall in mj-table of genera, Classification of the Ichneumon Flies, 1900, page 15, next to Eccoptoscvrge Kriechbaumer, but may be easily separated by the following characters: Scutellum saddle-shaped, emarginate above Eccoptosarge Kriechbaumer. Scutellum convexly rounded, not emarginate Matsvmuraius, new genu.s. In the shape of the head, the venation, more or less, the scutellum, and the abdomen, this genus closel}^ resembles Automahis Wesmael, but the metathorax is abruptly truncate posteriori}^ the upper hind margin bounded by a carina, the angles toothed, the lateral and pleural carinas distinct, while the spiracles are large and linear; the areolet of the front wings is large, pentagonal, the discoidal nervure and the second recurrent nervure being broken by a stump of a vein. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXX— No. 1448. 169
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