ICHNEUMON-FLIES OF AMERICA! 1. METOPIINAE 123 



10. Triclistus podagricus (Gravenhorst) 



Figure 170,a 



Exochus podagricus Gravenhorst, 1829, Ichneumologiaeuropaea, vol. 2, p. 336 ;cf, 9 • 

 Lectotype (hereby designated) : 9 , without locality data but presumably 

 from either Paris or Sickershausen (Wroclaw). 



Front wing 3.8 to 4.7 mm. long; face rather strongly mat, its 

 punctures small and separated by about 0.8 their diameter; temple of 

 male moderately convex, its hairs moderately dense, evenly spaced; 

 temple of female weakly convex, a little more bulging above than in 

 T. pallipes; hairs on temple moderately long, rather sparse, and evenly 

 spaced; metapleurum of male with to 12 hairs, of female with no 

 hairs; median longitudinal carinae of propodeum sharp, somewhat 

 divergent at position of costula (which is absent) and convergent 

 subbasally; hairs in area of second lateral area of propodeum rather 

 dense; median apical area of propodeum about 0.50 as long as wide; 

 hind spur of hind tibia about 3.0 as long as wide; second segment 

 of hind tarsus about 3.1 as long as wide in male, about 2.7 as long as 

 wide in female; first tergite about 1.5 as long as wide, its dorsal carinae 

 extending about 0.50 its length; male with first five tergites bare on 

 apical 0.2 ±, on base and center of first tergite, and on median part of 

 second tergite, the rest with rather evenly spaced hairs of moderate 

 length; tergites of female with hairs about as in female of T. 'palli'pes 

 but with bare central area of third and fourth tergites somewhat less 

 extensive; apical notch of female subgcnital plate about 0.4 as deep as 

 wide. 



Black. Antenna brown, paler basally beneath; mandible dark 

 brown, blackish basally; palpi light brown; tegula pale fulvous; legs 

 brownish fulvous, the hind coxa dark brown except apically and the 

 middle coxa more or less brownish. The femora are a little darker 

 than the tibiae. Sometimes the hind femur is distinctly infuscate. 

 In specimens from Europe the legs, mouth parts, and tegula average 

 a little darker than in specimens from North America. 



Specimens: 9, Skagway, Alaska, May 22, 1923, J. A. Kusche (San 

 Francisco), d\ White Pass Trail, Skagway, Alaska, May 5, 1923, 

 J. A. Kusche (San Francsico). cf , Edmonton, Alta., Apr. 21, 1943, 

 W. R. M. Mason (Ottawa). 9, Moscow Mt., Idaho, June 17, A. L. 

 Melander (Cambridge). 9, Kentville, N. S., June 3, 1924, R. P. 

 Gorham (Ottawa). 9, Almonte, Ont,, May 19, 1941, G. S. Walley 

 (Ottawa). 9, Kazubazua, Que., May 28, 1933, G. S. Walley (Ottawa). 

 9, Sydney, N. S., "8-6-01" (Ottawa). 39, Saskatoon, Sask., May 16, 

 1924, Kenneth M. King (Ottawa). 39, no data (Ottawa). 3d 1 , 39 

 from Ireland, Sweden, and Belgium (Townes). 



