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Co., Que., July 12, 1954, altitude 2,540 ft., collected by A. Klots, F. 

 and P. Rindge; Poudre Lake, Colo., Rocky Mountain National Park, 

 11,000 ft., Aug. 12, 1948, collected by H., G., and D. Townes. These 

 paratypes belong to the Townes Collection. 

 Host: Unknown. 



5. Delomerista borealis Walkley, new species 



This species belongs in the novita group and can be separated from 

 D. novita (Cresson) by its color pattern: Black tegulae, black hind 

 tibiae and tarsi, and fuscous palpi. 



Holotype female: Body, 13 mm.; ovipositor sheaths, 6.5 mm. 



Head: Eyes almost parallel; face 1.75 times as wide as long; antenna 

 31-segmented; malar space a little more than one-third basal width of 

 mandible; very finely, sparsely punctate except face which is more 

 coarsely punctate with punctures of central area separated by about 

 twice their diameter and by a little less than their diameter in adjoining 

 area. 



Thorax: Width to length as 3.5 to 5; mesopleurum finely punctate, 

 especially ventroanteriorly, becoming less so dorsoposteriorly ; pro- 

 podeum with dorsal area as long as posterior area; petiolar area 

 somewhat rugosely sculptured. 



Abdomen: Nearly twice as long as thorax; second tergite and third 

 tergite at base more or less granular in sculpture; tergites beyond 

 second coriaceous, with fine, scattered punctures; ovipositor about 

 seven-eighths as long as abdomen. 



Black or blackish, except mandibles (but not teeth) and malar space 

 whitish; clypeus, front and middle legs (tibiae and tarsi a little 

 infuscate), hind coxae, trochanters, femora, ovipositor, tips of ovi- 

 positor sheaths, and spot on outer side of base of hind tibia, reddish. 



Described from holotype female in U. S. National Museum Collec- 

 tion under Type No. 21394. 



Type locality: Long. 141° W., lat. 69° 20' N. (evidently on the 

 northern border between Alaska and Yukon Territory). Collected 

 Aug. 4 to 8, 1912, by J. M. Jessup. 



Eleven paratypes, two in the U. S. National Museum Collection, 

 four in the Townes Collection, and five in the Canadian National 

 Collection. Para type localities: Alaska: Mount McKinley at 2,500 

 ft., Aug. 10, 1954, David Townes; Canada: Reindeer Depot, Mac- 

 kenzie Delta, N. W. T., July 10, 1948, J. R. Vockeroth; Rampart 

 House, Y. T., two specimens July 11 and 20, 1951, J. E. H. Martin; 

 Norman Wells, N. W. T., two specimens June 29 and July 10, 1949, 

 J. E. H. Martin; Fort Chimo, Que., Aug. 7, 1948, R. H. MacLeod; 

 Great Whale River, Que., July 7, 1949, J. R. Vockeroth; United 

 States: Fall River Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, 11,600 ft., 



