450 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 57. 



what darker, their trochanters above mfuscated and tibiae and tarsi 

 black. 



"Eyes converging toward the clypeus, face clypeus and mandibles 

 clothed with dense yellowish pubescence, longer on clypeus and man- 

 dibles; antennae (broken) with flagellar joints 1-4 subequal in length, 

 those beyond decreasing gradually in length; pronotura laterally 

 smooth and shining, minutely aciculate posteriorly and dorsally; 

 rest of thorax clothed v/ith very short, dense, appressed, yellowish 

 pubescence, minutely punctate, stronger on metapleura and pro- 

 podeum, the latter with a median furrow and slightly angulate 

 laterally; wings hyaline with yellow stain, veins, brown, whitish at 

 base; abdomen minutely granularly punctured, and with dense, 

 minute pubescence; first tergite a little more than three times as long 

 as wide, its spiracles prominent." 



Vancouver's Island. 



POEMENIA VANCOUVERENSIS (Provancher). 



Euxorides vancouverensis Provancher, Addit. faun. Can. Hym., 1883, p. 369. 

 Ephialtes vancouverensis Harrington, Can. Ent., vol. 26, 1894, p. 249. 



Type of Provancher's species is in the second Provancher collection 

 at the Public Museum of Quebec and bears yellow label 1556. The 

 type of Harrington's species in the Harrington collection. Both 

 types examined. 



This species has the heavily chitinized part of the first sternite 

 terminating at about the middle, and in some of the specimens ex- 

 amined has the tliorax almost entirely black. It is probably only 

 a dark form of tJioracicus Cresson and has been fairly well character- 

 ized by its two describers. 



Vancouver's Island (type-locality); West Cliff (T. D. A.Cockerell), 

 El Paso County (A. B. Champlain), Colorado; Departure Bay, 

 British Columbia (E. M. Walker). 



Host. — Leptura species in Pinus ponderosa (A. B. Cliamplain). 



POEMENIA ALBIPES (Cresson). 



Ephialtes albipes Cresson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 3, 1870, p. 143. 



Type.— C&t. No. 1538, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 

 The following is R. A. Cushman's redescription of the female type: 

 Female. — "LengJ^Ji 9 mm., ovipositor 3.5 mm. Black, with tegu- 

 lae, scape, pedicel and first flagellar joint beneath, an teroventral mar- 

 gin of pronotum, palpi, four anterior legs (except middle tarsi, which 

 are blackish) yellowish white; hind legs testaceous, their trochanters 

 infuscated above, and theu* tibiae and tarsi black except narrow pale 

 areas basally; mandible and apex of clypeus red; eyes converging 

 toward the clypeus; face, clypeus, and mandibles clothed with dense, 

 golden pubescence; pronotum smooth laterally, minutely aciculate 

 posteriorly and dorsally; rest of thorax finely, granularly punctured 



