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ovipositor sheath about 1.7 as long as front wing; tip of lower valve 

 of ovipositor as in figure 330, d. 



The prepectal carina strong and complete above, hind femur rather 

 short and with unusually dense punctures, rather large size and stout 

 build, distinctive male genitalia, and especially the species group 

 character in the ovipositor tip make this species easy to distinguish. 



The range is Holarctic, with a distinct subspecies in Japan as 

 keyed and described below: 



1. Middle and hind coxae fulvous; hind femur fulvous, its apex narrowly fuscous; 



range: Holarctic except Japan . 5a. tuberculatus tuberculatus (Fourcroy) 



Middle and hind coxae blackish brown; hind femur usually brown; range: 



Japan 5b. tuberculatus jezoensis (Uchida) 



5a. Dolicbomitus tuberculatus tuberculatus (Fourcroy), 

 new combination 



Ichneumon tuberculatus Fourcroy, 1785, Entomologia parisiensis, p. 395; 9 • 

 Type: 9 , France (lost). 



Male: Black. Clypeus ferruginous; sometimes apical part of scape 

 in front and sometimes pedicel in front, fulvous; maxillary palpus 

 white; labial palpus brown; tegula white or stramineous, its apex 

 brownish; front and middle coxae and femora fulvous, the apex of 

 femora pale fulvous; front and middle trochanters, tibiae, and tarsi 

 pale fulvous, the basal 0.15 ± of the tibiae yellowish fulvous; hind 

 coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous, the apex of femur narrowly 

 infuscate; hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, the tibia paler and its basal 

 0.12 stramineous; extreme base of hind basitarsus light brown. 



Figure 51. — Localities for 

 Dolichomitus I uberculatus 

 tuberculatus. 



Female: Black. Clypeus largely ferruginous; maxillary palpus 

 stramineous, blackish at base; labial palpus dark brown; tegula 

 stramineous or fulvous, paler basally and darker apically; front leg 

 fulvous; middle leg fulvous, the apex of its femur, base of its tibia, 

 and apex of its tibia in front, pale fulvous; hind coxa, trochanters, 



