. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 2'. EPHIALTINAE 129 ovipositor strong, abruptly declivous posteriorly, with usually four subvertical ridges (figs. 330,e,f). This group contains about half of the genus, including the nine Nearctic or Holarctic species described below; the European Ephialtes agnoscendus Roman 1939, Ephialtes curticornis Perkins 1943, Ephialtes dux Tschek 1868, Ephialtes mesocentrus Gravenhorst 1829; Ephialtes tschitscherini Kokujev 1904, from the Urals; the Japanese Ephialtes macropunctatus Uchida 1928 and Ephialtes nakamurai Uchida 192


. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ICHNEUMON-FLIES, PART 2'. EPHIALTINAE 129 ovipositor strong, abruptly declivous posteriorly, with usually four subvertical ridges (figs. 330,e,f). This group contains about half of the genus, including the nine Nearctic or Holarctic species described below; the European Ephialtes agnoscendus Roman 1939, Ephialtes curticornis Perkins 1943, Ephialtes dux Tschek 1868, Ephialtes mesocentrus Gravenhorst 1829; Ephialtes tschitscherini Kokujev 1904, from the Urals; the Japanese Ephialtes macropunctatus Uchida 1928 and Ephialtes nakamurai Uchida 1928; the Oriental Ephialtes jeralis Tosquinet 1903, Ephialtes iridipennis Morley 1913, Ephialtes melanomerus Vollenhoven 1878, and Ephialtes tinctipennis Cameron 1899; and Ephialtes nigricans Cameron 1886, from Guatemala. These all are hereby referred to Dolichomitus and are new combinations with the generic name. We have some addi- tional Oriental and Palaearctic species which are undescribed. 7. Dolichomitus populneus (Ratzeburg), new combination Figures 330,e; 333,f; 349 Ephialtes populneus Ratzeburg, 1848, Die Ichneumonen der Forstinsecten . . , vol. 2, p. 100; d\ 9 . Type: d\ ? Germany (destroyed during World War II) Male: Front wing to mm. long; face with fine, sharp punc- tures whose interspaces are about their diameter; prepectal carina ending just above lower corner of pronotum; propodeum partly weald}7 rugulose, with large, weak, scattered punctures; median longitudinal carinae of propodeum moderately strong, ridgelike, extending about the length of propodeum; front trochanters somewhat flattened below and with very short, fine, dense hairs; hairs on outer side of middle coxa a little finer and denser than else- where on the coxa; front and middle coxae and trochanters not special- ized except as described; first tergite about as long as wide; second tergite about as long as wide; subgenital plate as in figure Figure 53.—Localities for Dolichom


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