ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA! 1. METOPIINAE 207 



united; yellow spot near top of each eye, the spots elongate, weakly 

 convergent posteriorly, close to hind ocelli, and a little separated from 

 margin of eye; mandible mostly yellow; palpi light brown; tegula 

 yellow, fulvous apically; coxae fulvous to black, the rest of legs 

 fulvous with the basal 0.2 of tibiae yellowish, and the tarsi basally 

 pale fulvous and apically tinged with brown. 



Type: 9, Florissant, Colo., June 26, 1908, S. A. Rohwer (Washing- 

 ton, USNM 63654). 



Paratypes: 9, near Alpine, Ariz., May 25, 1947, H. and M. Townes 

 (Townes). 9, Tanbark Flat, Los Angeles Co., Calif., June 23, 1956, 

 R. C. Betchel (Davis). 9, near Estes Park, Colo., June 15, 1948, H., 

 M., G., D., and J. Townes (Townes). cf , Monzano, N. Mex., June 

 26, 1941, R. H. Beamer (Lawrence). 9, Boardman, Oreg., June 4, 

 1943, G. R. Ferguson (Corvallis). 9, Kazubazua, Que., June 24, 

 1935, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 



This species has been taken sparingly from Quebec to Arizona, 

 from May 25 to June 26. It seems to occur in moderately dry situa- 

 tions. 



VIII. ATRICEPS GROUP 



Front wing 3.8 to 4.7 mm. long; head round in front view, the cheek 

 short; temple moderately long, moderately rounded; interantennal 

 process of face moderate, its point with a 95-degree angle; frons 

 rather weakly convex, wealdy impressed above each antennal socket; 

 occipital carina absent dorsally and below, present laterally as a fine 

 weak carina; ctypeal margin wealdy convex, its median half sub- 

 truncate; head blackish, the face, side of frons (usually continuous to 

 top of eye and widened there), clypeus, cheek, and lower part of 

 temple, ivory; notaulus short, like a subcircular pit at margin of 

 mesoscutum; metapleurum without discal hairs; propodeum smooth 

 above, without carinae; costula entirely absent; median longitudinal 

 carinae of propodeum entirely absent except for very short stubs at 

 base of propodeum; apical transverse carina of propodeum entirely 

 absent mesad of lateral longitudinal carinae or present as short stubs 

 on the lateral longitudinal carinae; basal half of lateral longitudinal 

 carina absent; second lateral area of propodeum almost completely 

 covered with moderately dense hairs, only the posterior mesal part 

 bare; nervellus beyond the basal vein by about 0.5 its length; front 

 spur of middle tibia about 0.40 as long as hind spur; second segment 

 of middle tarsus about 1.3 as long as wide in male, about 1.1 as long 

 as wide in female; hind tibia whitish on its basal 0.2, the rest fulvous 

 or infuscate; first tergite about 1.4 as long as its width at the basal 

 corners, its median dorsal carinae exceptionally short, extending 0.2 

 to 0.3 its length; second abdominal tergite about 0.80 as long as wide, 



