ICHNEUMON-FLIES — GELINAE : MESOSTENINI 451 



front wing; tip of ovipositor about 4.5 as long from nodus to apex as it 

 is deep at nodus. 



Male: Black. Face, cheek, clypeus, and broad orbits white, the 

 white orbital mark interrupted on upper part of temple; mouth parts, 

 front of scape, a rather long dorsal stripe on median part of flagellum 

 (rarely obsolescent or absent), lower 0.3 of propleurum, upper and 

 lower margins of pronotum, median spot on mesoscutum, basolateral 

 carinae of scutellum, sides of scutellum, usually apex of scutellum, 

 postscutellum, tegula, subtegular ridge, mesopleurum just above 

 sternaulus, upper part of mesepimeron, most or all of mesosternum, 

 and front and middle coxae and trochanters, white; median 0.3 ± of 

 flagellum fulvous below; upper part of prepectus often whitish; 

 mesopleurum fulvous except near tegula and sometimes in lower hind 

 corner; metapleurum fulvous except below juxtacoxal carina; upper 

 division of metapleurum fulvous; propodeum fulvous, basad of its 

 basal carina more or less black, usually with a whitish tint apicad of 

 its apical carina; front and middle femora and tibiae fulvous; front 

 tarsus stramineous, its fifth segment brown; middle tarsus pale brown, 

 paler at the joints and darker apically; hind coxa, trochanters, and 

 femur fulvous, the trochanters partly brownish above, apex of coxa 

 sometimics infuscate above, and extreme apex of femur fuscous; 

 hind tibia fuscous, with a broad, poorly defined, subbasal fulvous 

 band; hind tarsus white, the basal 0.15 to 0.4 of its fu-st segment and 

 tip of its fifth segment black; wings hj^aline; abdomen fulvous. 



Female: Black. Broad orbits, clypeus, and median quadrate spot 

 on face white, these white areas often more or less fused, the orbits 

 interrupted on upper part of temple; mandible except for its apex and 

 margins, palpi, median incomplete band on flagellum that covers about 

 5 segments, upper and lower margins of pronotum, median spot on 

 mesoscutum, basolateral carinae of scutellum, sides and usually apex of 

 scutellum, postscutellum, tegula, and subtegular ridge, white; lower 

 end of propleurum fulvous or whitish ; prepectus black, its dorsal ex- 

 tension fulvous ; mesopleurum fulvous, black behind subtegular ridge ; 

 mesosternum fulvous, black medially and next to middle coxa; 

 metaplem'um and propodeum fulvous, the extreme base of propodeum 

 black; front and middle legs fulvous, their fkst trochanters and outer 

 side of their coxae whitish, their fifth tarsal segments browTi; hind leg 

 fulvous, the base of its fu-st trochanter dark brown, the extreme apex 

 of its femur somewhat infuscate, its tibia fuscous basally, and its 

 tarsus whitish fulvous with the base of its first segment fulvous and 

 its fifth segment brown; wings hyaline; abdomen fulvous. 



Specimens from west of the Rocky Mountains have the blackish 



