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laterally, with tero'ites xerj narrowly whitish apically; venter pale, 

 with sternites blackish. 



Type locality. — Corvallis, Oreg. 



Holotype.—U.S.'^M. No. 53494. 



One specimen taken July 1.3, 1935, by George R. Ferguson. 



Genus ITOPLECTIS Foerster 



ITOPLECTIS ATROCOXALIS (Cresson) 



Pimpla afrocoxalis Cresson, Trans. Anier. Ent. Soc, vol. 3. p. 146, 1870. 

 Pimpla oralis Thomson, Opuscula entomologica, fasc. S, p. 748, 1877. — Schmiedk- 



KNECHT, Zool. Jahrb.. vol. 3, p. 494. 1888; 111. Wocheuschr. Eut.. vol. 2, p. 



510. 1897; Opuscula ichnouiuonologica, fasc. 14, p. 1073, 1906. — (Jehrs, 



Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 1908, p. 467. — Schmiedeknecht, Zeitschr. Aiigew. 



Ent., vol. 1, p. 414, 1914.— Hetnrich, Deutsche Eut. Zeitschr., 1928, p. 87.— 



CoNSTANTiNEAU, Anu. Soc. Uuiv. Jassy, vol. 1.5, p. 231, 1928 (1929). — 



Schmiedeknecht, Opuscula ichneiuuouologica, suppl.-band, fasc. 19, p. 96, 



1934. New synonymy. 

 Pimpla (Itoplectis) oralift THo>rsoN. Opuscula entomologica, fasc. 13, p. 1409, 



1889.— Hensch, Konowia, vol. 8. p. 127, 1929. 

 Pimpla maculator var. oralis (Thomson) Haupt, ]\Iitt. Ent. Ges. Halle, 1913, 



Nos. 5-6, p. 55. 

 Itoplectis ovalis (Thomson) Morley, A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on 



the collection in the I'.ritish Museum (Natural History), pt. 3, p. 78, 1914. — 



Seykig, Eos, vol. 3, p. 217, 1917. 

 Itoplectis pudihundae Roman (not Ratzeburg), Arkiv fur Zool., vol. 9, p. 25, 



1914. — Hellen. Acta Soc. Fauna et Flora Fennica, 1915, p. 39. — Seykig, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 101, p. 116, 1932. 

 Itoplectis atrocoxalis (Cresson) Cushman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 



341, 1920. 

 Pimpla pudihundae Habekmehl, (not Ratzeburg), Konowia, vol. 9. p. 112. 19-30. 



The acquisition of more material from both North America and 

 Europe convinces me that atrocoxalis and ovalis are identical. 



Perusal of the original description of Pimpla pudihundae Ratze- 

 burg would seem to indicate that Roman was wrong in synonymizing 

 ovalis with that species, for pudihundae is described as having the 

 o\dpositor as long as the abdomen and the hind coxae red-brown. 

 Also Ratzeburg states that he reared his species as a gregarious 

 external parasite, never from the pupa. This is an impossible habit 

 for an Itoplectv< but is exactly the habit of Iseropus and of a few 

 species of Epiurus. From the fact that the face of the male of 

 pudihundae is not yellow I suspect that it is an Epiurus. 



Genus CALLIEPHIALTES Ashmead 



CALLIEPHIALTES FERRUGINEUS, new species 



In my recently published key to the Neotropical species of Cal- 

 liephialtes ^ this species runs to minutus (Brulle). From that species 



- Rev. Ent., vol. 9, pp. <.iG-07, 1938. 



