116 
Psyche 
[June 
Borens intermedins Lloyd 
Pan. Pacific Ent., 10:119-120; 1934. 
Male : length, 3.5 mm. ; wings and legs yellow or yellow- 
brown, hypandrium and genitalia yellow and brown, eyes 
grayish brown, mottled with black, rest of body dark bronze, 
almost black; entire body covered with fine, short pubes- 
cence, nearly absent on abdominal terga; wings abruptly 
narrowed near the middle, as in calif ornicns, but with the 
distal half much more slender than in that species; hypan- 
drium entire, narrowly triangular ; rostrum twice as long as 
the eye. 
Female : wings yellow, legs yellow-brown, ovipositor 
brown and dark brown, eyes grayish brown; rest of body 
dark bronze; entire body covered with fine, short, white 
pilosity nearly absent on abdominal terga; fore wing com- 
pletely covering hind wing scar; ovipositer scarcely (if at 
all) longer than the rostrum. 
Holotype ( $ ) and allotype : collected between Kennecott 
and McCarthy, Alaska, April 15, 1934; on snow; both in 
Washington State Museum 5 . 
The male of this species resembles closely that of cali- 
f ornicns, but differs in having the distal half of the wings 
much more slender than in that species. The female, also, 
approaches that of calif ornicns but can be distinguished by 
the much shorter ovipositer. 
Borens borealis Banks. (Figure 14.) 
N. Amer. Fauna, Bur. Biol. Surv., U.S.D.A., 46:158; 1923. 
Male : length 4 mm.; wings yellow-brown; hypandrium 
and legs light brown and brown ; eyes brown ; rest of body 
black; with a pronounced bronze hue; abdomen above ex- 
tremely shiny ; short, white pilosity sparsely distributed over 
body, reduced on terga; pronotum without long spines; 
wings strongly narrowed in the proximal half ; hypandrium 
entire ; rostrum one and one-half times the length of the eye. 
5 After this paper had been sent to the press a pair of intermedius 
were forwarded to me by Mr. Lloyd; both were collected at the type 
locality (April 29, 1935) and have been deposited in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology. 
