ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPIINAE 103 



Specimens: 9, "Mokel Hill," Calif., F. E. Blaisdell (San Francisco), 

 cf, 4 miles west of Quincy, Calif., June 26, 1949, E. I. Schlinger 

 (Townes). cf, Valley Hot Spring, Douglas Co., Nev., June 24, 1953, 

 R. C. Betchel (Davis), cf (type), Nevada (Philadelphia), d\ 

 Kane Creek at 2,000 ft., 5 miles west of Gold Hill, Oreg., June 23, 1937, 

 Bolinger and Jewett (Washington). 



3. Metopius (Tylopius) edwardsii Cresson, new combination 



Figure 186,d 



Metopius edwardsii Cresson, 1878, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1878, 

 p. 376; d\ Type: d", Washington Territory (Philadelphia). 



Metopius edwarsii Townes, 1945, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 11, p. 571, synon- 

 ymy, in part. 



Front wing 9 to 11 mm. long; facial shield broadly rounded below, 

 without a trace of a basal point, the shield about 0.97 as high as wide 

 and separated from clypeal margin by about 0.08 its height; second 

 recurrent vein with one bulla; abdomen moderately broad, its fourth 

 tergite about 0.73 as long as wide; second tergite densely punctate, 

 the interspaces reduced to lines; sixth tergite of female about 0.74 

 as long as wide, with close, coarse punctures; seventh tergite of male 

 with close, coarse punctures. 



Male: Black. Face, interantennal process, side of frons, scape and 

 pedicel except above, labrum, broad stripe on upper margin of prono- 

 tum, small obsolescent stripe on subtegular ridge, spot at apex of area 

 dentipara, apices of scutella, front and middle coxae apically above, 

 trochanters except hind side of trochanter of front leg, front and middle 

 femora at base, apex, above, and in front, basal and apical 0.18± of 

 hind femur in front, narrowing to basal and apical 0.08 ± behind, 

 tibiae except extreme apex of hind tibia, front and middle tarsi, hind 

 basitarsus obscurely on basal 0.75 ±, apical 0.6 of first tergite, apico- 

 lateral corners of second tergite, apical 0.25 of third tergite, apical 

 0.17 of fourth tergite, apical 0.12 of fifth tergite, median half of apical 

 margin of sixth tergite, and most of genitalia and subgenital plate, 

 pale yellow; wings subhyaline, with a brown tinge. 



Female : Black. Stripe covering lateral edge of facial shield, inter- 

 antennal process and narrow adjacent margin of facial shield, baso- 

 lateral part of frons, sometimes a small stripe along upper margin of 

 pronotum, narrow apical margin of scutellum (interrupted medially), 

 small spot at apex of area dentipara, apices of all femora and base of 

 hind femur, hind trochanters except under side of first trochanter, 

 front and middle tibiae and tarsi except part of hind side of tibiae, basal 

 0.7 of hind tibia, and abdominal marks as described in male, ivory- 

 colored; flagellum brown beneath; wings subhyaline, tinged with 

 brown. 



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