ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINT 309 



la. Joppidiiim brochum brochum, new subspecies 



Black, with black wings. Head, mouth parts, scape, pedicel, pro- 

 notum, propleuriun, front legs, mesoscutum, scutellum, usually post- 

 scutellum, tegula, and front 0.5 ± of mesopleurum and mesosternum, 

 ferruginous; flagellum of male dark brown, with a yellowish band that 

 covers about 9 segments; basal three segments of female flagellum 

 light reddish bro^vn, the apex of third segment yellow; fourth to about 

 the eleventh segments of female flagellum light yellow, the following 

 segments blackish; middle coxa and trochanters brown; middle femur 

 fulvous brown; middle and hind tibiae and tarsi yellow, the tarsi 

 bro'wnish apically; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur blackish, the 

 extreme apex of femur tinged with fulvous; apex of first tergite with 

 a brown tinge; second and following tergites fuscous and brown in 

 male (the fuscous mostly on basal half of the tergites), browTi in 

 female, the bases of the second and third tergites with fuscous tinges. 



A short series from FHnt, Oklahoma, is somewhat intermediate to 

 the subspecies fattigi. 



Type: cf", New Braunfels, Tex., June 27, 1917 (Washington, USNM 

 63798). 



Paratypes (35 6", 79): From Oklahoma (Flint) ; Texas (Brownsville, 

 Del Rio, Fort Sam Houston in Bexar Co., Hidalgo Co., New Braunfels, 

 and Salado Creek in Bexar Co.); and Mexico (Cuitlahuac in Vera 

 Cruz, El Limon and 22 miles north of El Limon in Tamauhpas, El 

 Salto in San Luis Potosi at 1,700 ft., Huichihuyan 20 miles north of 

 Tamazunchale in San Luis Potosi, Jalapa in Vera Cruz, Pachuca in 

 Hidalgo, Poza Rica in Vera Cruz, Puente Nacional in Vera Cruz, Salto 

 Falls in San Luis Potosi at 1,250 ft., San Rafael near Jicoltepec in 

 Vera Cruz, 30 miles north of Tamazunchale in San Luis Potosi at 

 300 ft., Vallecillo in Nuevo Leon, Valles, and XiHtla at 3,500 ft.). 



Texas and Oldahoma specimens were collected mostly from May 11 

 to June 27. Those outside of this range are: March 24 at Fort Sam 

 Houston, Tex., and April 27 at Del Rio, Tex. Mexican specimens 

 have been collected in the months of May, June, July, August, and 

 October. 



This subspecies occurs in Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. 



lb. Joppidium brochum fattigi, new subspecies 



Male: Structurally similar to male of the subspecies brochum ex- 

 cept that the sculpture averages a little coarser and stronger. 



Black, with black wings. Head, mouth parts, scape, pedicel, and 

 front legs, fulvous broAvn; flagellum dark brown, with a yellowish 

 band that covers about 12 segments; front half of thorax predomi- 

 nantly blackish but with ferruginous tinges; middle and hind legs, 

 and abdomen colored as in male of J. brochum but a little darker. 



