ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 285 



Lando Park in Comal Co., Liberty Hill, Lopeno, Medina Lake in 

 Medina Co., "Neuecest," Palmetto State Park in Gonzales Co., 

 Palo Pinto, 10 miles south of Pharr, Piano, Port Arthur, Salado Creek 

 in Bexar Co., San Antonio and Loop 13 in San Antonio, Sanderson, 

 Snyder, Tornillo Flats in Big Bend National Park at 2,500 ft., Uvalde, 

 Victoria, Waco, Webb Co., and White Rose Canyon in JefF Davis Co.) ; 

 and Mexico (50 miles south of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon at 1,700 ft., 

 5 miles east of Padilla Kancho Santa Ana in Tamaulipas, and 6 miles 

 north of C. Victoria in Tamaulipas). 



Collection dates are mostly in spring, some in fall, and a very few 

 during the summer months. The peak season of abundance for the 

 spring period is from March 15 to May 15, with fewer in the first half 

 of March and last half of May. The records outside of the March 

 through May span are: January 1 at Brownsville, Tex.; February 

 4 at Crystal City, Tex.; February 18 at Uvalde, Tex.; June 18 at 

 White Rose Creek, Davis Co., Tex.; June 29 in Gillespie Co., Tex.; 

 July 6 in the Davis Mts., Tex.; July 15 at 6 to 10 miles west of Fort 

 Davis, Tex.; and August 7 at Alva, Okla. The fall flight period 

 extends from about October 4-31. The only captures outside of 

 this range are September 24 in Eastland Co., Tex.; November 24 

 and 26 at Browiisville, Tex.; and November 17 and December 22 in 

 Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



This species is abundant and widespread in Texas and ranges 

 northward into Kansas and southward into nearby parts of Mexico. 



3. Conipsocryptus calipterus Say 



Male: Front wing 7.5 to 12.5 mm. long; temple at midheight 

 about 1.0 as long as eye, moderately convex; punctures on mesoscutum 

 moderately coarse, strong, separated by about 0.5 their diameter; 

 basal transverse carina of propodeum varying from complete and 

 sharp to incomplete and indistinct, sometmies entirely absent; 

 apical transverse carina usually indicated by two very weak, oblique 

 sublateral ridges. 



Ferruginous. Usually the middle of frons and vertex, occiput, 

 apical 0.4 of flagellum, sutural markings of thorax (usually of moderate 

 width but sometimes narrow and sometimes expanded to cover 

 much of thorax), and sometimes markings on coxae, black; hind 

 femur usually fuscous apically, sometimes mostly blackish with its 

 base ferruginous; hind tibia fuscous, pale basally; basal 0.2 ± of 

 third tergite usuali}^ black or fuscous; rarely the base of fourth tergite 

 fuscous; upper side of pedicel blackish; basal 0.6 ± of flagellum often 

 infuscate above, especially on its first segment; wings yellowish 

 with three transverse dark brown bands, their width variable, ac- 

 cording to the subspecies; hind tarsus fulvous. 



