ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPIINAE 19 



and middle femora usually with fulvous or brownish areas behind; 

 hind tibia brown or blackish on the apical 0.1 to 0.25; apex of hind 

 coxa (a little more broadly beneath), hind trochanters, and base and 

 apex of hind femur, yellow; flagellum brown beneath. 



Female: Black. Interantennal process and inner orbit from level 

 of clypeal fovea to lower corner of frons. yellow, the orbital mark 

 rather broad and a little widened near antenna; apical margin of 

 clypeus brownish; disc of clypeus often yellowish brown; scape 

 yellow beneath; mandible ferruginous medially; maxilla, labium, 

 tegula, extreme apices of coxae, apices of trochanters, hind second 

 trochanter, bases and apices of femora, and tibia, yellow, the apical 

 0.1 to 0.3 of hind tibia blackish; tarsi yellow, grading to yellowish 

 brown toward the apex; flagellum brown, darker above. 



Type: 9, Mattawa, Ont., incubator reared from lepidopterous pupa, 

 Feb. 21, 1939 (Ottawa). 



Paratypes: d\ in sap bucket, Chelsea, Que., Apr. 21, 1933, G. S. 

 Walley (Ottawa); and 14 d\ 119 incubator-reared from various lepi- 

 dopterous pupae by the Canadian forest insect survey during the 

 years 1937 to 1945. The localities represented are: Ontario (Achray, 

 Algonquin Park, Deux Rivieres, Chalk River, Kapuskasing, Lake 

 Two Rivers, Nicholson, Petawawa, Timagami, and Wensley); and 

 Quebec (Bois Franc, Breckenridge, Chelsea, John Bull Depot, Mani- 

 waki, and Mont St. Michel). 



The hosts recorded for these are: Choristoneura fumiferana (one 

 locality) ; Caripeta divisata (one locality) ; Caripeta angustiorata? (one 

 locality) ; Semiothisa granitata (one locality) ; Protoboarmia porcelaria 

 (three localities) ; Paraphia piniata (three localities) ; Geometridae 

 (three localities); Noctuidae (four localities), and Lepidoptera (one 

 locality). 



This subspecies occurs in the Canadian zone of Ontario and Quebec, 

 where it parasitizes a variety of small Lepidoptera on conifers. All 

 specimens but one are from rearings. 



Id. Chorinaeus longicalcar flavicrus, new subspecies 



Metapleurum with hairs over its entire surface. 



Male: Black. Face, lower lateral part of frons, clypeus, mouth 

 parts, scape and pedicel in front, tegula, front and middle legs, and 

 hind leg beyond femur, yellow; ront and middle coxae blackish basally; 

 front and middle femora with a large black area behind; apex of hind 

 coxa yellow (more extensively below) ; hind trochanters yellow except 

 for a large brown area on upper side of first trochanter; hind femur 

 yellow at base and apex. 



