ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPIESTAE 183 



Type: tf 1 , Dardanelle, Calif., July 3, 1948, H., M., G., D., and J. 

 Townes (Washington, USNM 63646). 



Paratypes (33 cf, 259): From Alberta (Chin); British Columbia 

 (Osoyoos); California (Big Bear Lake in San Bernadino Co., Cedar- 

 ville, Cuyama Valley in Kern Co., Dardanelle, near Glacier Point in 

 Yosemite National Park, Hope Valley in Alpine Co., Keen Camp, 

 Lancaster, Leevining, Mount Diablo, Palmdale, Pinnacles National 

 Monument in San Benito Co., San Antonio Valley in Santa Clara 

 Co., Snow Flat at 8,700 ft. in Yosemite National Park, and "Tama- 

 rack Lake at 7,700 ft.") ; Colorado; Idaho (Moscow) ; Nevada (Charles- 

 ton Mts. at 9,000 ft., Holbrook in Douglas Co., and Pequop Summit 

 Well in Elko Co.) ; Oregon (Fish Creek at 7,200 ft. in the Steens Mts., 

 Fish Lake at 7,000 ft. in the Steens Mts., Hart Mt., Sunshine Shelter on 

 Three Sisters, and Warner Lake in Lake Co.) ; Utah (Logan, Newton, 

 Salt Lake, and Weilsville) ; Washington (Morgans Ferry on the Yakima 

 River, Squaw Creek in the Yakima Valley, Mount Rainier at 5,000 

 ft., Pressy's in Wenass Valley, Spokane, and Yakhna City); and 

 Wyoming (Le Roy). 



Adults have been collected from April 1 to August 16. They seem 

 to occur in early summer, and may be found after mid-July only in 

 the higher mountains. Most specimens were collected from late 

 April to early July. Particularly early and late dates of capture are: 

 April 1 at Palmdale, Calif.; April 10 at Mount Diablo, Calif., at 

 Lancaster, Calif., and in Cuyama Valley, Kern Co., Calif.; August 5 

 at Webber Lake, Sierra Co., Calif.; August 8 at Cedarville, Calif.; 

 and August 16 at Sunshine Shelter, Three Sisters, Oreg. 



This subspecies occurs in the western half of the United States and 

 in British Columbia. It is commonest in the Transition and Canadian 

 zones. Adults are on the wing in early summer. 



3. Exochus turgidus Holmgren 



Figure 191, c 



Exochus turgidus Holmgren, 1856, Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., ser. 4, vol. 1, 

 p. 312; 9 . Types: ? 9 , central and northern Sweden (?Stockholm). 



Front wing 5.5 to 6.3 mm. long; apex of interantennal process of 

 face touching and fused with frons; second segment of middle tarsus 

 of male about 1.15 as long as wide, of female about 1.07 as long as 

 wide ; body punctations a little stronger than in Exochus mitratus. 



Black. Interantennal process, upper lateral corner of face, often 

 entire upper margin of face, small spot at top of eye, and front half 

 of tegula, whitish; back half of tegula brown; front femur and tibia 

 fulvous; extreme apex of middle and hind femur, extreme bases and 

 apices of tibiae, tibial spurs, and small areas on coxae, tinged with 

 brown; wings subhyaline. 



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