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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 216 



PART 3 



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Figures 55, 56. — Localities: 55 (left), Pycnocryptus platyaspis; 56 (right), P. freemani. 



Paratypes: 29, Big Delta, Alaska, June 4 and 24, 1951, W. R. M. 

 Mason (Ottawa). 9, Lethbridge, Alta., June 24, 1956, O. Peck 

 (Ottawa). 



3. Pycnocryptus alexanderi, new species 



Male type: Front wing 5.7 mm. long; clypeus moderately convex, 

 without a median tooth; thorax of moderate proportions; notaulus 

 weak, foveolate; mesopleurum polished, with a little weak wrinkling 

 and with rather coarse punctures that are separated by about 0.7 

 their diameter; transverse carinae of propodeum both strong, complete, 

 and bowed forward a little at center; sides of areolet moderately con- 

 vergent; second tergite weakly mat, its punctures of moderate size, 

 shallow, separated by about 1.6 their diameter. 



Black. Facial orbit, most of cheek, short orbital mark at top of 

 frons, clypeus, mandible, palpi, narrow hind corner of pronotum, 

 tegula, subtegular ridge, scutellum, postscutellum, narrow hind cor- 

 ner of metapleurum, and apical carina of propodeum, yellow; scape 

 fulvous; flagellum with a red-brown tinge beneath; legs fulvous, the 

 apex of front and middle coxae marked with yellowish, upper side of 

 first trochanters fuscous, and hind tibia and tarsus with a pale brown 

 tinge; wings hyaline; abdomen fulvous, the basal half of its first 

 segment yellow and the fifth and following segments darkened. 



Female: Unknown. 



Type: &, Lake Willoughby, 1,200 ft., Vt., June 17 to 29, 1945, 

 C. P. Alexander (Washington, USNM 63763). 



4. Pycnocryptus director (Thunberg) 



Ichneumon director Thunberg, 1822, M6m. Acad. Sci. St. P^tersbourg, vol. 8, 

 p. 270; cf. Type: cf, [Europe] (Uppsala). 



Front wing 3.7 to 7.5 mm. long; clypeus moderately convex, with- 

 out a median apical tooth; notaulus sharp, not foveolate; mesopleurum 



