ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA: 1. METOPIINAE 247 



brown below; lower part of propleurum fulvous or whitish; lower 

 part of pronotum fulvous; pronotum fulvous to black, except as 

 described otherwise; mesosternum and metasternum fulvous, the 

 mesosternum more or less whitish, especially in male; mesopleurum 

 fulvous, its prepectus more or less whitish, below its subtegular 

 ridge more or less infuscate; metapleurum fulvous; mesoscutum 

 fulvous to black, most often fulvous; disc of scutellum fulvous; pleural 

 areas of propodeum often more or less fulvous; front and middle legs 

 ivory white, often generally stained with stramineous, the coxae 

 more or less fulvous, the femora pale fulvous except apically, and the 

 apical 0.45 of tibiae fulvous, atjeast dorsally and in some females 

 infuscate, especially on the middle tibia; hind coxa more or less ivory 

 apically; hind trochanters ivory to fulvous; hind femur fulvous, with 

 a large conspicuous ivory area apically above; hind tibia white, its 

 basal 0.17± and apical 0.26 ± blackish; hind tarsus white, its last 

 segment blackish except basally. 



There is a northern and a southern subspecies as distinguished 

 below: 



1. Hind femur 2.10 to 2.20 as long as wide in male, 1.66 to 1.97 as long as wide 

 in female; combined face and clypeus a little less strongly flattened below 

 than in E. dorsalis dorsalis, in female the lower part being discally very 

 weakly convex; range: transcontinental in Transition zone. 



42a. dorsalis pictilis, new name 



Hind femur 1.89 to 2.00 as long as wide in male, 1.60 to 1.66 as long as wide in 



female (fig. 195,e) ; combined face and clypeus a little more strongly flattened 



below than in E. dorsalis fylesi, in female the lower part being discally flat or 



slightly concave; range: Carolinian and Austroriparian faunas. 



42b. dorsalis dorsalis Cresson 



42a. Exochus pictilis Walkley 



Exochus pictilis Walkley, in Krombein et al, U.S. Dep. Agr., Agr. Monogr. 2, 1st 



Suppl., p. 59. 

 Amesolytus pictus Fylos, 1904, Canadian Ent., vol. 36, p. 207; [91 (preoccupied 



in Exochus by Holmgren, 1856). Type: 9 , Levis, Que. (Washington). 



Front wing 4.5 to 6.0 mm. long; thorax moderately depressed; 

 lower part of combined face and clypeus of female discally very 

 weakly convex; hind femur about 2.15 (2.10 to 2.20) as long as wide 

 in male, about 1.80 (1.66 to 1.97) as long as wide in female; front 

 spur of hind tibia about 2.5 as long as wide in male, about 2.3 as 

 long as wide in female. 



Pronotum discally and mesoscutum black to fulvous, usually 

 fulvous. 



Specimens: 9, Canterbury, Conn., July 25, 1937, M. Chapman 

 (Townes). d\ East Lansing, Mich., July 27, 1939 (East Lansing), cf, 

 St. Anthony Park near Minneapolis, Minn., June 22, 1910, "E. C. P." 



451582— 59— IT 



