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blotch dorsally; middle tarsus white, the apex of segments 1-4 brown- 

 ish, the apical 0.3 of segment 5 fuscous; hind coxa, first trochanter, 

 and femur fulvous, the apical 0.17± of the femur fuscous; hind second 

 trochanter pale fulvous; hind tibia blackish, with a broad premedian 

 white band; hind tarns whitish, the apex of first three segments, all 

 of fourth segment, and apical 0.6 of fifth segment blackish. 



Female: Unknown. 



Specimens: d", "Abies concolor", North Fork of Mokelumne River, 

 Calif., Aug. 11, 1954, G. L. Downing (Washington), c? (type), 

 Moscow, Idaho, J. M. Aldrich (Philadelphia). d\ from Hemero- 

 campa leucostigma, Silver City, Idaho, Sept. 10, 1957, W. E. Cole 

 (Washington). 



5. Ephialtes Ontario (Cresson) 



Figure 326,h 



Pimpla Ontario Cresson, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, p. 146; c?. Type: 

 cf, Canada (Philadelphia). 



Front wing 5.2 to 11 mm. long; front and middle tarsal claws of 

 female each with a prominent basal tooth; hind tarsal claw of female 

 simple; first tergite rather weakly elevated at about two-thirds its 

 length. 



Male: Similar in coloration to female except that face, front orbit, 

 clypeus, mandible, palpi, scape beneath, and tegula are white, and 

 that the legs have slightly more extensive white markings. 



Female: Black. Front orbit below antennal socket, sometimes 

 above antennal socket, and at summit, narrowly yellowish white; 

 clypeus orange to black; front of pedicel and of flagellum whitish, the 

 flagellum grading to dusky orange toward apex; mandible usually 

 with a pale spot; maxillary palpus orange; labial palpus dusky orange; 

 tegula white to brown; hind corner of pronotum, apex of scutellum, 

 and apex of metanotum, white; front coxa blackish at base; middle 

 tibia with a distinct white band, more or less dusky basad of the band 

 and sometimes dusky apicad of it; hind tibia black or sometimes 

 dusky fulvous, with a white band occupying from one-fourth to nearly 

 half its length; hind tarsus blackish, the first segment except its apex 

 and usually the base of second segment whitish; rest of legs fulvous, 

 the front and middle legs varied with whitish. 



Specimens (99 cf, 2089): From Alaska (Kodiak); Alberta (Banff 

 and Lake Louise) ; Arizona (near Alpine and Workman Creek in the 

 Sierra Ancha); British Columbia (Alaska Highway at Mile 415, 

 Burrard Inlet near Vancouver, Chilliwack, Clinton, Colwood, Cultus 

 Lake, Diamond Head Trail in Garibaldi Provincial Park near Squam- 

 ish, Genoa Bay at Duncan, Golden, Haines, Indian River, Jesmond, 

 Lytton, Malahat on Vancouver Island, Robson at 1,450 ft., Salmon 



