ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 



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tinged with yellowish brown, the front wmg with median and sub- 

 apical brownish areas, the median brown area sometimes lacking. 



Specimens (34 cf^, 279): From Alabama (Prattville) ; District of 

 Columbia (Anacostia) ; Florida (Fort George, Lutz, Oneco, and Para- 

 dise Key); Georgia (Griffin); southern Illinois; Indiana (Lafayette); 

 Kansas (Lawrence); Michigan (Ann Arbor, Genesee Co., and Otsego 

 Co.); New Jersey (Jamesburg and Moorestown); New York (Babylon, 

 Farmingdale, and Ithaca); North Carolina (Clmton, Crab tree Mead- 

 ows in Yancey Co. at 3,600 ft.. Lake Toxaway, Raleigh, Southern 

 Pines, and Southport); Ohio (Put-in-Bay) ; Ontario (Pelee Island); 

 Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Rhode Island (Westerly); South Caro- 

 lina (Greenville); and Virginia (Falls Church and Glencarlyn). 



Collection dates are from mid-spring to mid-summer, plus a few 

 records in August. Unusually early and late seasonal records are: 

 February at Paradise Key, Fla.; March 2 at Lutz, Fla.; May 3 at 

 Falls Church, Va.; May 20 at Ann Arbor, Mich.; August 5 at Crab- 

 tree Aleadows, 3,600 ft., Yancey Co., N.C.; August 12 at Griffin Ga.; 

 and August 21 at Prattville, Ala. 



We find the species in grassy overgrown meadows, mostly in June 

 and early July. 



This species occurs in the Carolinian, Austroriparian, and Tropical 

 faunas. 



Figures 35, 36. — Localities: 35 (left), Mallochia agenioides; 36 (right), M. strigosa. 



2. Mallochia strigosa (Cresson) 



Figure 328,c 



Mesoleptus? strigosus Cresson, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 4, p. 167; d'. 

 Type: cf , Bosque Co., Tex. (Washington). 



Male: Front wing 4.5 mm. long; mesoscutum weakly mat, with 

 rather coarse punctures that are separated by about 1.4 their 

 diameter. 



