ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 299 



Dates of collection are distributed from April 27 to July 8, with 

 a few outside this range, as follows: March 30 at Woody, CaUf.; 

 April 21 on Mount Diablo, Calif.; and July 29 at Ten Cent Lake near 

 Alberson, Oreg. 



This species occurs in southern Idaho, northern Utah, southern 

 Oregon, and western California. 



12. Conipsocryptus fletcheri (Provancher) 



Cryptus Fletcheri Provancher, 1888, Additions et corrections au volume ii de la 

 faune entomologique du Canada traitant des hymenoptfires, p. 361; 9 • 

 Type: 9, Vancouver Island, B.C. (Quebec), 



Male: Front wing 9.8 to 11.8 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 0.95 as long as eye, very weakly convex; punctures on meso- 

 pleurum and metapleurum moderately coarse, strong, separated by 

 about 0.5 their diameter; basal transverse carina of propodeum 

 absent except as a short vestige behind spiracle; apical transverse 

 carina absent or represented by a weak sublateral vestige. 



Ferruginous. Center of frons, ocellar area, occiput, often a pair of 

 vertical sublateral stripes on face and connecting bar above clypeus, 

 apical 0.35 of fiagellum, and thoracic sutures, black; scape and basal 

 0.65 of fiagellum fulvous brown below, fuscous brown above; often 

 side of thorax largely or mostly black but metapleurum always at 

 least partly pale; coxae often with black markings; hind tibia in- 

 fuscate apically; front and middle legs beyond femora and hind 

 tarsus fulvous; wings dark bro\vn, sometimes with faint darker brown 

 bands, the costa, basal 0.5 ± of subcosta, and basal 0.6 ± of stigma, 

 fulvous brown, the rest of stigma brown; base of third tergite usually 

 with a pair of transverse fuscous marks. 



Female: Front wing 8.7 to 11.5 mm. long; temple at its midheight 

 about 1.0 as long as eye, weakly convex; second flagellar segment 

 about 3.5 as long as wide; widest subapical segments of fiagellum about 

 0.80 as long as wide; punctures on mesopleurum of irregular size and 

 density but mostly not crowded and separated on the average by 

 about 0.6 their diameter, the mesopleurum centrally often with some 

 fine longitudinal wrinkling; basal transverse carina of propodeum 

 present only as a short vestige behind spu-acle; apical transverse 

 carina represented by a weak oblique lateral carina; hind femur about 

 4.2 as long as deep; hairs on median and medioapical part of second 

 tergite sparse, elsewhere denser, the hair sockets in the sparser areas 

 separated by about 2.5 the length of the hairs, in the denser areas sep- 

 arated by about the length of the hairs; ovipositor sheath about 0.95 

 as long as front wing ; ovipositor about 6 8 as long from nodus to apex 

 as it is deep at nodus. 



