ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 



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Figure 1. — Locality for 

 Whymperia tricolor. 



Head and body colored vnih. black, ivory, yellow, and fulvous as 

 in figure 330, a; palpi fulvous; scape fulvous, infuscate above; pedicel 

 and flagellum black, the flagellum with a complete white band that 

 covers about 8 segments; front and middle legs fulvous, their coxae 

 ivory in front and with a fuscous mark at base, the fifth segments of 

 their tarsi fulvous brown; hind coxa colored as in figure; hind tro- 

 chanters, femur, and tibia fulvous; hind tarsus yeUow, its fifth segment 

 fulvous; wings with a moderate brownish suffusion. 



Type: 9, Huachuca Mts., Ariz., Oct. 12, 1951, E. L. Kessel 

 (San Francisco). 



Paratype: 9, same data as type (San Francisco). 



2. Genus Baryceros 



Figure 307,b 



Baryceros Graveahorst, 1829, Ichneumonologia europaea, vol. 2, p. 777. Type: 



Baryceros guttaius Gravenhorst; monobasic. 

 Christolia Brull6, 1846, in Lepeletier, Histoire naturelle des insectes, hym^no- 



ptdres, vol. 4, p. 246. Type: Christolia punctata Brull6; monobasic. 

 Crypturopsis Ashmead, 1900, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 45. Type: Cryp- 



turus texanus Ashmead; original designation. 

 Neochristolia Blanchard, 1936, Rev. Argentina Ent., vol. 1, p. 40. Type: Neo- 



christolia eucleides Blanchard; original designation. 



Front wing 5.5 to 16 mm. long; body stout; frons without a horn, 

 without a basinhke depression, and without a sublateral vertical 

 carina; clypeus of moderate size, moderately convex, impressed 

 apically, its apical margin truncate; flagellum usually short in male, 

 moderately long and rather thick in female; epomia rather strong, 

 straight, ventrally parallehng front margin of pronotum; upper margin 

 of pronotum with a strong swelling at upper end of epomia; meso- 

 scutum short, wide, and weakly convex; notaulus sharp or more or less 

 obsolete, not extending beyond center of mesoscutum; setiferous 



