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1. Itoplectis quadricingulata (Provancher) 



Figures 284,b; 325,i 



Pimpla 4-cingulatus Provancher, 1881, Naturaliste Canadien, vol. 12, p. 38 



(Faune, p. 459); 9 . Type: 9 , Quebec (Quebec). 

 Pimpla (Itoplectis) Kolthoffi, Aurivillius, 1890, Bin. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. 



Handl., vol. 15, p. 29; d\ 9- Lectotype (hereby designated): o\ labeled 



"Nunasarnausak, June 19 to 20, Nordskj. Exped., 83," Greenland (Stock- 

 holm). 

 Itoplectis obesus Cushman, 1917, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 53, p. 467; d\ 9 . 



Type: 9, Wenatchee, Wash. (Washington). 

 Ephialtes (Itoplectis) latus Cushman, 1920, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 345; 



9. Type: 9, Albee, Oreg. (Washington). 

 Ephialtes (Itoplectis) leavitti Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 



345; 9. Type: 9, St. John, N. B. (Washington). 

 Ephialtes (Itoplectis) pacificus Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 



345; 9 • Name preoccupied. Type: 9 , Menlo Park, Calif. (Washington). 

 Ephialtes (Itoplectis) montana Cushman, 1920, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, 



p. 346; 9. Type: 9 , Colorado (Washington). 

 Ephialtes cacoeciae Viereck, 1924, Canadian Ent., vol. 56, p. 64; cf, 9 • Type: 



9, Vernon, B. C. (Ottawa). 

 Ephialtes (Itoplectis) esuchus Cushman, 1924, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 



26, p. 221. New name for Ephialtes pacificus Cushman. 



Front wing 3.5 to 9.0 mm. long; temple moderately convex, about 

 0.65 as long as eye; face moderately wide; flagellum very weakly en- 

 larged apically, the sixth segment from apex about 1.4 as long as wide; 

 punctures on mesoscutum and mesopleurum rather fine and weak; 

 notaulus absent; propodeum short, its median longitudinal carinae 

 extending about 0.4 its length; front tarsal claws of female with a 

 large, broad, postmedian tooth; third tergite about 0.5 as long as wide; 

 tergites 2-7 with moderately strong depressions and elevations; ovi- 

 positor sheath about 2.2 as long as first tergite. 



Figure 127. — Localities for 

 Itoplectis quadricingulata. 



