ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA! 1. METOPIINAE 85 



carina weak above sternaulus, extending halfway dorsad from ster- 

 naulus to subtegular ridge; scutellum a little wider and flatter than 

 in M. ultimatus; claws of front and middle tarsi pectinate on their 

 basal 0.65 ± ; abdomen basally unusually broad. 



Black, the legs and basal 2 or 3 abdominal segments brownish fer- 

 ruginous. Face around margins of its shield, interantennal process, 

 side of frons, palpi, wide stripe along upper edge of pronotum, trans- 

 versety rectangular spot on mesopleurum below wing, scutellum ex- 

 cept its basal trough, most of metapleurum, small spot at apex of 

 second lateral area of propodeum, tinge on upper edge of front and 

 middle tibiae, and apical 0.7, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.25, and 0.2 of abdominal 

 tergites one through six, respectively, yellow; antenna brownish 

 fulvous, the scape and pedicel brown above and flagellum increas- 

 ingly shaded with brown apically ; galea and most of mandible brown ; 

 wings tinged with brown, the apical 0.25 of front wing distinctly 

 paler and the stigma yellowish. 



Specimens: 9 (type), Colorado (Philadelphia). 9, West Point, 

 Nebr., September 1887 (Philadelphia). 



7. Metopius (Cultrarius) pectoralis, new species 



Male type: Front wing 8 mm. long; facial shield 1.58 as high as 

 wide, with a weak median longitudinal carina, with very coarse some- 

 what confluent punctures; wider segments of flagellum about 2.1 as 

 wide as long; galea elongate, projecting, about 0.8 as long as man- 

 dible, -with very few setae except on the edges; glossa narrow, long, 

 projecting beyond the galea; second segment of maxillary palpus 

 swollen, a little flattened, about 2.8 as long as wide; punctures on 

 mesopleurum and metapleurum coarse, those on mesopleurum sep- 

 arated b}^ about 0.4 their diameter, those on metapleurum separated 

 by about 0.7 their diameter; prepectal carina complete; areolet 2.1 

 as wide as length of second recurrent vein; second recurrent vein 

 with two narrowly separated bullae (only one bulla in all other 

 species of the subgenus); claws of middle tarsi pectinate on their 

 basal 0,4 (front tarsal claws missing in the only specimen at hand). 



Black. Face and clypeus except for area around clypeal fovea, 

 interantennal process, side of face, under side of scape and pedicel, 

 labrum, first three segments of maxillary palpus, stripe along upper 

 margin of pronotum, stripe along lateral edge of propleurum, sub- 

 tegular ridge, short vertical mark near front edge of mesopleurum, 

 longitudinal stripe just below sternaulus, apical 0.4 of scutellum, small 

 spot on postscutellum, large spot on metapleurum, small spot at 

 apex of second lateral area of propodeum, small spot on tegula, apices 

 of coxae, most of upper side of hind coxa, trochanters, narrow bases 

 of front and middle femora, broad apices of all femora, front and 



