ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 2 : EPHIALTINAE 383 



3a. Poemenia americana nebulosa Habeck and Townes, new subspecies 



Male : Black. Apical half of cl} r peus and most of mandible tinged 

 with ferruginous; palpi white; front half of scape and pedicel whitish; 

 flagellum brown at base, palest below; stripe along lower edge of prono- 

 tum whitish; hind corner of pronotum covered by a small triangle of 

 white, the white extending forward about 0.7 the distance to notaulus; 

 lower 0.4 of propleurum whitish; tegula white; front and middle legs 

 whitish, the front tarsus brown apically, the middle tarsus brown, 

 paler basally; hind coxa fulvous; hind trochanters brownish above, 

 whitish below; hind femur brownish fulvous, brown basally and api- 

 cally, paler below, its extreme apex fulvous; hind tibia and tarsus 

 fuscous, the tibia somewhat paler at base. 



Female: Black. Scape and pedicel brown in front; apical third of 

 cl} T peus and most of mandible tinged with ferruginous; palpi pale 

 stramineous; hind corner of pronotum whitish, with a narrow forward 

 extension of the white mark that reaches half way to notaulus; lower 

 front edge of pronotum sometimes tinged with stramineous; tegula 

 white; front leg pale fulvous, the coxa apically, the trochanters, and 

 the femur basally and apically and more or less in front, whitish, the 

 tarsus brownish apically; middle leg fulvous, the extreme apex of its 

 coxa, the trochanters, and apex of femur pale stramineous and the 

 tarsus brown; hind coxa fulvous; hind trochanters fulvous, infuscate 

 above; hind femur fulvous, a little infuscate basally above and more 

 distinctly infuscate apically above, the extreme apex a little paler; 

 hind tibia and tarsus fuscous, the tibia faintly paler at base. 



Type: 9, near Glacier Point, Yosemite Park, Calif., July 19, 1948, 

 H., M., G., D., and J. Townes (Washington, USNM 63716). 



Paratypes (8 d" , 409) : From Arizona (Parker Creek and Workman 

 Creek both in the Sierra Ancha); British Columbia (Diamond Head 

 Trail near Squamish at 3,300 ft., Keremeos, Pavilion Lake, Salmon 

 Arm, and Wellington) ; California (Angora Lake near Tahoe, Chester, 

 Dardanelle, Del Norte, Echo Lake in El Dorado Co., Fallen Leaf 

 Lake near Tahoe, near Glacier Point in Yosemite Park, Glen Alpine 

 Creek near Tahoe, Hope Valley in Alpine Co., Inyo Co. at 9,700 ft., 

 Moore Camp in Shasta Co., and north slope of Mount St. Helena in 

 Napa Co.); Colorado (Evergreen, Gothic at 9,000 ft., Ragged Mt. in 

 Gunnison Co., and Westcliffe); Nova Scotia (Baddeck); Oregon 

 (Corvallis, Dixie Mt, at 5,200 to 6,000 ft. in Blue Mts., and Grant 

 Co.); and Quebec (Laniel and Mt. Lyall at 1,500 ft.). 



Most of the field-collected specimens are dated June 27 to July 19. 

 The dates outside of this "normal" range are: April 20 and May 2 

 at Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz.; Ma}^ 8 at Workman Creek, 

 Sierra Ancha, Ariz.; June 7 at Pavilion Lake, B. C; June 8 at Laniel, 



