ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPILNAE 



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4b. Metopius (Metopius) pulchellus sonora, new subspecies 



Figure 183,h 



Black. Face except for subdorsal small spot or median vertical oval 

 area, interantennal process, side of frons, under side of scape and 

 pedicel, sometimes part of clypeus and mandible, palpi, narrow stripe 

 along upper margin of pronotum, subtegular ridge, vertical oval spot 

 spot below front end of subtegular ridge (sometimes connected with 

 mark on subtegular ridge), longitudinal stripe on mesosternum next 

 to sternaulus or a small spot on mesopleurum near middle coxa, most 

 of metapleurum, apical 0.3 of scutellum and its basolateral corner, 

 postscutellum, coxae apically, trochanters except under side of front 

 and middle trochanters and base of hind first trochanter, apex and 

 extreme base of femora, sometimes apical half of hind femur in front, 

 most of front side of fore and middle femora, upper part of front and 

 middle tibiae, base (or base, upper, and front parts of hind tibia 

 except towards apex), basal 0.7 of first tergite, apicolateral spot on 

 second tergite, apical 0.5 ± of third tergite, fourth and following 



Figures 45-47.- — Localities, subspecies of Metopius {Metopius) pulchellus: 45 (left), mon- 

 tanus; 46 (center), sonora; 47 (right), pulchellus. 



tergites except at base, e„nd male genitalia, yellow; antenna reddish 

 brown basally; front and middle legs fulvous except where described 

 as yellow; hind coxa blackish basally behind, the rest ferruginous with 

 the apex more or less yellow; hind femur blackish behind, elsewhere 

 blackish to ferruginous except where described as yellow; hind tibia 

 ferruginous, except where described as yellow, infuscate apically, 

 especially on inner side; hind tarsus brown; second tergite rufous, 

 black at base and with a lateroapical yellow spot; third tergite 

 with a rufous tinge between its black base and yellow apex; tegula 

 ferruginous, with or without a yellow spot; propleurum medially, and 

 areas surrounding some of yellow markings on thorax, especially on 



