ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 301 



thorax and small marks at apices of coxae, black; hind tibia somewhat 

 infuscate, paler basally; hind tarsus yellowish, its first and last seg- 

 ments fulvous; wings colored as in female; abdomen uniformly 

 ferruginous. 



Female: Front wing 7.0 to 11.5 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 0.97 as long as eye, at and a little below midheight flat to very 

 weakly convex, elsewhere weakly convex; second flagellar segment 

 about 2.9 as long as wide; widest subapical flagellar segments about 

 0.62 as long as wide; punctures on mesopleurum rather coarse but of 

 irregular size, separated by about 0.8 their diameter; basal carina of 

 propodeum absent except sometimes for a weak vestige behind spira- 

 cle; apical carina of propodeum absent; hind femur about 3.9 as long 

 as deep; second tergite with hair sockets on its basal half and later- 

 ally separated by about the length of the hairs, elsewhere much 

 sparser; ovipositor sheath about 0.90 as long as front wing; ovipositor 

 about 6.6 as long from nodus to apex as it is deep at nodus. 



Ferruginous. Median part of occiput and narrow margins along 

 the deeper thoracic sutures black; apical half of flagellum fuscous; 

 wings blacldsh brow^i, with a weak purple iridescence, the veins and 

 stigma black except that costa, basal 0.3 ± of subcosta, and extreme 

 base of stigma are ferruginous; legs and abdomen uniformly ferrugi- 

 nous except that second to fourth segments of hind tarsus are some- 

 what yellowish. 



Specimens (199 cf, 759): From British Columbia (\^ernon); Cali- 

 fornia (Antioch, Arroyo Seco Camp in Monterej^ Co., Ash Mountain 

 in Sequoia National Park at 3,000 to 5,000 ft., Bro\vns Flat in Los 

 Angeles Co., Buck Creek in Modoc Co., California Hot Springs, 

 Camino, "Camp Holsum," Carrville in Trinity Co. at 2,400 to 2,500 

 ft., Chile Bar in El Dorado Co., Coalinga, 12 miles west of Coalinga, 

 Colfax, Conn Lake in Napa Co., Crystal Lake Road in Los Angeles 

 Co. at 4,700 ft., Dardanelle, Dutch Flat, Eel River in Mendocino Co., 

 Fair Oaks, Fort Seward, Gold Lake in Sierra Co., Hastings Natm\al 

 History Reservation in Santa Lucia Mts. at Jamesburg in Monterey 

 Co. at 1,900 to 2,700 ft.. Hat Creek, Keen Camp in San Jacinto Mts., 

 Lassen Creek in Modoc Co., Livermore, Los Gatos Canyon in Mount 

 Diablo Range in Fresno Co., Madera Co. at 3,000 ft., Mokelumne 

 Hill, Mount Diablo at 2,000 ft.. Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara 

 Co., Mount Shasta District, Mount Tamalpais, Nelson Point in 

 Plumas Co., Oakhurst, Paraiso Springs in Monterey Co., Pilot Hill, 

 4 miles west of Quincy, Ribbonwood in San Jacinto Mts., Richardson 

 Springs, Samuel Springs in Napa Co., San Antonio Valley in Santa 

 Clara Co., San Diego, Sobre Vista in Sonoma Co., Stone Creek in 

 Monterey Co., 8 miles east of Sunnymead, Tanbark Flat in Los 

 Angeles Co., Tuolumne Co. at 3,000 and 3,500 ft., Wildwood Canyon 



