ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 2: XORIDINAE 505 



at apex of area dentipara; front tibia of female weakly swollen; 

 bristlelike hairs on front of front tibia stout, few, in a single irregular 

 row or narrow band (figs. 313,c,d,e); comb on front of apex of front 

 tibia nearly straight, with rather strong, short bristles; nervellus 

 broken below the middle; first tergite coarsely punctate, its median 

 and lateral longitudinal carinae distinct to near apex in male, distinct 

 basally but usually obsolescent before the middle in female (distinct 

 to the apex in the female of X. pictus), beyond spiracle with a weak or 

 distinct oblique dorsolateral groove; second tergite with a sharp 

 oblique groove cutting off its basolateral corner. 



This group includes five United States species and Neoxylonomus 

 strandi Clement 1938, from "Nassau." 



3. Xorides (Xorides) pictus, new species 



Figures 313,c; 314,g; 316,a; 328,i 



Male: Unknown. 



Female: Front wing 7.0 to 8.7 mm. long; temple not rugulose, with 

 rather coarse punctures whose interspaces are about 1.3 their diam- 

 eter; areola five sided but in the general shape of an equilateral tri- 

 angle, its basal corner narrowly open; median longitudinal carinae 

 of propodeum approximate basad of areola but not touching; first 

 tergite about 1.8 as long as wide, its median longitudinal carinae 

 distinct to the apex. 



Head black, its temple stained with fulvous, its orbits whitish in 

 front at top of eye, and the lower half of its temple with a large whitish 

 mark; apical section of clypeus largely whitish; scape stramineous in 

 front; palpi pale stramineous, a little darker basally; pronotum 

 ferruginous, blackish anteriorly, with a very broad whitish stripe along 

 its upper margin and a moderately wide whitish stripe along its lower 

 margin; propleurum ferruginous, blackish dorsally; mesoscutum and 

 scutellum ferruginous, black marginally and between lobes of meso- 

 scutum; mesosternum ferruginous, blackish along front and hind edges 

 and along midline; mesopleurum ferruginous, a stripe along its lower 

 edge, a short median longitudinal stripe, subtegular ridge, and mese- 

 pimeron whitish; metapleurum whitish, ferruginous above; propodeum 

 black, its second and third pleural areas ferruginous; front and middle 

 legs whitish, their femora, tibiae, and tarsi with fulvous stains and 

 the fifth segment of their tarsi fuscous; hind coxa and trochanters 

 whitish, varied with pale fulvous; hind femur fulvous with a weak sub- 

 apical infuscation, its apical margin paler; hind tibia and tarsus in- 

 fuscate, the base of tibia and of basitarsus whitish; abdominal tergites 

 blackish, the first two tergites more or less ferruginous laterally and 

 the apical and lateral margins of the second and following tergites, 



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