ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 119 



This subspecies occurs east of the Rocky Mountains, in the Cana- 

 dian and Transition zones. 



8b. Aritranis notata newconieri (Cushman), new status, new combination 



Caenocryptus newcomeri Cushman, 1917, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 463; 

 (f, ?. Type: 9, Wenatchee, Wash. (Washington). 



Male: Colored like male of the subspecies notata except that 

 white markings on head average a little less extensive, front and 

 middle coxae average less white and more ferruginous, and hind tibia 

 and basitarsus are a little less strongly infuscate. The second seg- 

 ment of hind tarsus is sometimes entirely brown but usually is brown 

 with its apical 0.25 ± white; the fifth tergite ranges from entirely 

 black to entirely ferruginous and the seventh tergite is always en- 

 thely black. In one male from Saanich District, B.C., the coxae 

 and hind first trochanter are black, and the apex of front and middle 

 coxae black. 



Female : Black. Mandible and median part of clypeus stained with 

 ferruginous; palpi fuscous; antenna black, the flagellum dark brown 

 basally, two or three of its median segments white above; tegula dark 

 brown; front and middle legs ferruginous, their fifth tarsal segments 

 brownish ferruginous; hind leg ferruginous, its tibia a little darkened 

 apically, its tarsus uniformly brownish fulvous and last tarsal seg- 

 ment brown; wings with a weak fuscous tinge; abdomen ferruginous, 

 its fourth and following tergites entirely black or the fourth one 

 partly ferruginous. 



Specimens: cf , Kaslo, B. C, July 8, R. P. Currie (Washington). 

 2d', Robson, B.C., May 25 and Aug. 13, 1949, H. R. Foxlee (Ottawa), 

 cf , Saanich District, B.C., June 7, 1929, W. Downes (Ottawa). 9, 

 Salmon Arm, B.C., July 30, 1925, A. A. Dennys (Ottawa). 9, Mos- 

 cow, Idaho, July 24, 1925, C. L. Fox (San Francisco). 9, Wallace, 

 Idaho, Aug. 13, 1937, Otto Huellemann (St. Paul). 9, Missoula, 

 Mont., July 1, 1940, H. K. Townes (Townes). 29, reared from 

 Allantus cinctus, Madison, N.J., Mar. 8 and 10, 1938, J. C. Silver 

 (Washington). 9, CorvaUis, Oreg., June 20, 1935, G. Ferguson (Cor- 

 vallis). cf, Ashford, Wash., July 27, 1940, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). d, Union Flat [Cr.], Wash., July 16, 1916 (Cambridge). 

 9 cf , 179, reared from Ametastegia glahrata, Wenatchee, Wash., Apr. 10 

 to June 18, 1915 and 1917, E. J. Newcomer (Washington, Townes, 

 and Ottawa). 



This subspecies occurs in the Transition zone of northwestern 

 United States and southwestern Canada. One long series, including 

 the types, was reared from a sawfly pupating in weed stems. Two 

 specimens recorded above from "Madison, N.J." are either mislabeled 

 or indicate that the subspecies is colonized in the East. 



