Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 725 



cognata faceta Dasch. N. S., Que., Maine, N. H., Vt., Mass., N. Y., w. N. C, n. Ga., Ont. n. 

 Mich., e. Tenn., Alaska, s. B. C, w. Wash., w. Oreg., n.w. Calif. Two more or less 

 sympatric Eurasian "subspecies" were recognized by Dasch (1964) and by Townes, 

 Momoi, and Townes (1965). They are S. cognata cognata (Holmgren), which was 

 described from southern Lapland, and S. cognata albicoxa (Thomson), which was 

 described from southern Sweden, Germany, and France. 



Promethes albicoxis Ashmead, 1906. hi Slosson, Ent. News 17: 324. Nomen nudum or 

 lapsus for and misidentification of P. albicoxa Thomson. 



Sussaba cognata faceta Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 265. 6, 9. 



Taxonomy: Townes, Momoi, and Townes, 1965. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 5: 414. 

 coloradensis Dasch. Northern Colo. Known only from the holotype which was collected four 



miles west of Cameron Pass, Colo, on July 23, 1894 by C. F. Baker. 

 Sussaba coloradensis Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 270. 9. 

 dorsalis cultriformis (Ashmead). N. S. w. to s.e. Alta., s. to N. J., s.w. Va., and Nebr. Host: 



Platycheirus erraticus Curran, Sphaerophoria philantnus (Meig.), syrphid on cabbage, 



syrphid on reed canary grass. Single specimens apparently not otherwise separable from 



d. cultriformis were recorded by Dasch from s.e. B. C, s. Yukon, and s.w. Alaska, well 



within the range of the nominate subspecies. 

 Trematopygus^ cultriformis Ashmead, 1890 (1889). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 12: 441. 9. 

 dorsalis dorsalis (Holmgren). Newfoundland (Labrador) w. to n. Yukon and Alaska, s. to 



insular Newfoundland, s. central Que., n. Colo., and n. Calif.; Eurasia. 

 Bassus dorsalis Hobngren, 1858 (1856). Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. (n. f.) 1: 367. S, 9. 

 Bassus maculatus Desvignes, 1862. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 10: 216. S, 9. 

 elongata (Provancher). Newfoundland (n. Labrador) w. to n. Yukon and Alaska, s. to Vt., n. 



Mich., Tex., N. Mex., n. Utah, and n. Calif.; Eurasia. 

 Bassus elongatus Provancher, 1874. Nat. Canad. 6 (1): 31 (key); 6 (2): 57. cJ, 9. 

 Bassus monticola Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1875. Pinacographia, p. 4 and pi. 1, fig. 9. i. 

 Promethus laticarpus Thomson, 1890. Opusc. Ent. 14: 1481. 6,9. 

 Otoblastus erodens Davis, 1897. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 273. i, 9. 

 Promethes unicinctus Ashmead, 1902. Wash. Acad. Sci., Proc. 4: 224. 9. Townes (1945) 



stated that the holotype is a composite specimen, but I do not think he was correct; 



therefore, his selection of the thorax as "lectotype" is of doubtful significance. Dasch 



(1964) incorrectly stated that the type locality is "Berg Bay, Alaska;" it is Kukak Bay, 



Alaska. 

 Promethes laticarpus watanabei Uchida, 1957. Hokkaido Imp. Univ., Faculty Agr., Jour. 



50: 248. 6, 9. Syn.? Dasch (1964) stated that he believed watanabei (described from 



Hokkaido) to be a subspecies of elongatus, but he did not use either of the trinomials S. 



elongatus watanabei or S. elongatus elongatus. Moreover, Dasch apparently also studied 



typical specimens of elongata from Japan (see his p. 253). 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1945. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 560. —Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., 



Mem. 3: 242, 250-254. 

 nigrithorax Dasch. Northern Que., n.e. N. W. T., Colo., Alaska. The Baker notebook indicates 

 that the female paratype cited by Dasch as "Colorado, C. Baker (Washington)" was 

 collected at an elevation of 9500 ft. at Chambers Lake, Colo, on July 18, 1895 by C. F. 

 and N. E. Baker. A male for which the same data apply is labeled by Dasch as a 

 paratype of nigrithorax but is evidently the specimen he cited as a paratype of 

 pulchella coriacea Dasch from "Colorado (no locality)." In addition, a specimen from 

 "Camp 334, Alaska" (a place at the east end of Mt. McKinley Natl. Park and now known 

 as Carlo) which Dasch labeled as a paratype of nigrithorax is cited in his revision as a 

 paratype of pulchella coriacea. If nigrithorax is a valid species and if the one paratype 

 of nigrithorax and two "paratypes" of pulchella coriacea discussed above are correctly 

 identified as nigrithorax they are apparently the only known specimens of this species 

 which were not collected above or beyond timberline. 



Sussaba nigrithorax Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 249. 6, 9. 

 placita Dasch. Southeastern B. C, n. Calif. 



Sussaba placita Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 269. 6,9. 



