ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 2\ XORIDINAE 535 



from Quercus and one each from Carya, Pinus rigida?, P. strobus, 

 Rosa, Taxodium distichum, and Vaccinium vacillans. 



This subspecies is in the Carolinian, Austroriparian, and Tropical 

 faunas east of the hundredth meridian, and occurs also in Colorado. 

 It parasitizes borers in smaller dead wood lying in the open. Adults 

 occur throughout the growing season but mostly in the first half of 

 summer. 



lb. Labena grallator xutha, new subspecies 



Head yellowish, fulvous behind; body and legs fulvous, the front 

 and middle legs, hind tibia and tarsus, scutellum, and various areas 

 on thorax paler fulvous or yellowish, the metapleurum and propodeum 

 mostly fulvous; first and second tergites fulvous, their apices yellow; 

 third and following tergites yellow, the third through fifth tergites nar- 

 rowly fulvous at base; wings medium fulvous brown. 



Type: 9, Jemez Springs, 6,400 ft., N. Mex., June 15, 1913, John 

 Woodgate (Ithaca). 



Paratypes: 9, Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 20, 1945, I. J. Cantrall 

 (Ann Arbor). 9, Cloudcroft, N. Mex., June 27, 1940, L. J. Lipovsky 

 (Townes). 9, Jemez Springs, N. Mex., John Woodgate, June 21, 

 1913 (Townes). d\ Jemez Springs, N. Mex., May 27, 1916, John 

 Woodgate (Ithaca). 9, Manzano, N. Mex., June 26, 1941, R. H. 

 Beamer (Lawrence). 



This subspecies occurs in New Mexico and part of Colorado. 



lc. Labena grallator ochreata, new subspecies 



Head yellowish, fulvoferruginous behind; thorax dark brown, with 

 fulvous areas and yellow markings anteriorly and on mesonotum; 

 front and middle legs fulvous, their coxae, trochanters, and femora 

 more or less brownish; hind coxa dark brown to brownish ferruginous; 

 hind trochanters and femur brown to brownish fulvous; hind tibia 

 and tarsus yellow; first and second tergites medium to dark brown, 

 yellow apically; third and following tergites yellow, the third through 

 fifth tergites narrowly brownish at base; wings rather dark brown. 



Type: 9, Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 20, 1947, H. and 

 M. Townes (Washington, USNM 63737). 



Paratypes: 2d", Oak Creek Canyon, Ariz., May 20 and 21, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, "Palmerlee," Ariz., N. Banks 

 (Cambridge). 29, Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, Ariz., Apr. 19, 1947, 

 H. and M. Townes (Townes). d\ Parker Creek, Sierra Ancha, 

 Ariz., May 4, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 4c? , near Roose- 

 velt Lake, Ariz., Apr. 23, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 9, near 

 Roosevelt Lake, Ariz., Apr. 24, 1947, H. and M. Townes (Townes). 

 cf , near Roosevelt Lake, Ariz., Apr. 27, 1947, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). 2d\ Sahuarita, Ariz., Apr. 11, 1947, H. and M. Townes 



