ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 223 



18c. Trachysphyriis luctuosus aliifeiiiiir, new subspecies 



Male: Lower 0.3 of frons not wrinkled; apical carina of propodeum 

 obsolescent, distinguishable only at the position of the sublateral 

 crest. 



Black. White marldngs as described for male of T. luctuosus 

 luctuosus, with the addition that front of scape, most or all of seg- 

 ments 2 and 3 of maxillary palpus, apical half of segment 1 of liind 

 tarsus, and all of segment 2 of hind tarsus are white; segment 5 

 of hind tarsus fuscous, its base white. Legs black, the front side of 

 front and middle femora and all of front and middle tibiae and tarsi 

 fulvous brown to brown; base of hind tibia and extreme apex of hind 

 femur brownish fulvous; hind tarsus white from middle of segment 

 1 to base of segment 5; wings wealdy infuscate. 



Type: cf , Mount Norikura in Japan Alps, 2,200 m., Japan, July 29, 

 1954, H., M., D., and J. Townes (Washington, USNM 63779). 



Paratype: cf, same data as type (Townes). 



19. Trachysphyriis moschator (Fabricius) 



Front wing 5.8 to 7.9 mm. long; frons moderately concave, rather 

 finely ruguloso-punctate, laterally only punctate, the rugulosity with 

 a weak transverse bias, the lower 0.3 of frons almost smooth; temple 

 rather narrow, first segment of female flagellum about 5.8 as long as 

 wide; mesopleuruni reticulate-rugulose, marginally with distinct 

 punctures; basal transverse carina of propodeum very weak or absent; 

 apical transverse carina of propodeum unusually strong, sublaterally 

 forming a weak crest; propodeal spiracle about L6 as long as wide; 

 ramellus long; second recurrent vein wealdy sinuate; areolet narrowly 

 pentagonal, the sides strongly convergent and the front side short; 

 hair sockets on tergite 2 separated by about L5 the length of the 

 hairs; ovipositor sheath about 5.8 as long as front wing; ovipositor 

 tip about 4.0 as long from nodus to apex as it is deep at nodus. 



There is a European and an Amercan subspecies, as keyed and de- 

 scribed below: 



1. Hind femur fulvous, its apical 0.1 sometimes faintly infuscate; hind basitarsus 

 of male entirely fuscous; range: Europe. 



19a. moschator moschator (Fabricius) 



Hind femur fulvous with its apical 0.15 fuscous; hind basitarsus of male white 



with its basal 0.3 ± fuscous; range: Alleghanian fauna of North America. 



19b. moschator iroquois (Viereck) 



19a. Trachysphyrus moschator moschator (Fabricius) 



Ichneumon moschator Fabricius, 1787, Mantissa insectorum, p. 266. Sex not 

 stated. Type: sex?, Denmark (location unknown). 



Male: Black. Narrow front orbit and narrow stripe on hind orbit, 

 white; palpi fuscous; base of tegula sometimes white; second tro- 



